Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering

Crunchyroll, LLC • Los Angeles, CA

7h • $99,000 - $138,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering you will lead the strategy, creation, maintenance, and iteration of our engineering onboarding, broader learning programs, and the governance of Engineering intranet.
In the role of Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering, you will report to the Senior Engineering Operations Manager.
We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco and Los Angeles. We work a hybrid schedule, in office three days a week; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years in instructional design, enablement, or knowledge roles supporting technical audiences, with a senior-level portfolio.
• Experience crafting succinct narratives and decks for senior technical leaders; expert in shaping message, structure, and visuals for decisions.
• Data storytelling: Comfort with metrics and qualitative signals; ability to contextualize data, derive insights, and recommend actions and tradeoffs.
• Learning design expertise: Strong grasp of ADDIE/SAM or similar frameworks; experience designing blended learning with measurable outcomes.
• Exceptional writing and editing: Clear, concise writing for technical audiences; strong editorial judgment and consistency.
• Program and stakeholder management: Ability to plan roadmaps/backlogs, facilitate reviews, and align cross-functional SMEs and senior partners.
• Technical fluency: Familiarity with how engineering orgs operate (SDLC, Agile/DevOps concepts) and the ability to translate “how work gets done” into content.
• Tool adaptability: Fast learner across Crunchyroll's tools; able to connect systems and automate where practical to streamline content operations.
• Portfolio required: Only applications with portfolios will be considered.

Responsibilities

• You will lead engineering onboarding programs and engineering learning experiences.
• You will lead needs analysis, curriculum, delivery, and iterative improvement for engineering new-hire ramp and role-specific pathways. You will design assessments that measure behavior change.
• Run intranet information architecture: Curate the Engineering hub for findability and freshness; define taxonomy, tagging, and governance; maintain single sources of truth.
• Use Crunchyroll's toolset: Operate across Crunchyroll's collaboration, analytics, authoring, and content platforms; document scalable workflows and improve them.
• Stand up engineering content operations: Establish templates, versioning, style guides, and DA/DRI review loops across bootcamp materials, SOPs, strategies, and knowledge base content.

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!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees