Principal Product Manager, Search & Content Understanding
About The Position
As Principal Product Manager for Search & Content Understanding, you will define how Crunchyroll connects fans to the anime they love-and helps them discover new stories-through fast, relevant, and data-driven discovery systems. You'll lead initiatives that combine search relevance, metadata enrichment, and content relationships to make discovery more meaningful, efficient, and personalized across our global platforms. You will partner closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, and design teams to shape the discovery strategy, guide the roadmap, and build scalable systems that enhance engagement across the Crunchyroll ecosystem. Beyond optimizing search, you'll evolve our content intelligence layer-integrating knowledge graphs, third-party and ML-generated metadata, and relational modeling across our catalog to fuel the future of curation, personalization, and discovery.
Requirements
- Experienced Product Leader: 15+ years in product management, including 5+ years leading search, personalization, or metadata systems in streaming media, large-scale consumer, or content platforms.
- Metadata and Knowledge Graph Expertise: Deep understanding of content modeling, tagging, and knowledge graph architecture, with experience integrating structured and ML-derived metadata into user-facing systems.
- Search and Relevance Fluency: Skilled in the design and optimization of search systems, query understanding, ranking logic, and data pipelines that improve retrieval quality and user satisfaction.
- Metrics-Driven Operator: Proven track record of defining and delivering KPIs tied to engagement, relevance, and catalog utilization.
- Strategic Communicator: Able to articulate a discovery systems vision that balances innovation with measurable business outcomes.
- Collaborative Partner: Experienced in leading cross-functional collaboration with ML, engineering, design, curation, and data science to deliver unified discovery capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Search Innovation
- Content Understanding and Knowledge Graphs
- AI and ML Collaboration
- Discovery Platform Integration
- Cross-Platform Enablement
- Experimentation and Optimization
- Outcome Accountability
Benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Industry
Broadcasting and Content Providers
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
