Strategic Initiatives Director
About The Position
The Strategic Initiatives Director will help shape and execute Crunchyroll’s growth agenda by assessing strategic opportunities, developing recommendations for senior leadership, and mobilizing cross-functional teams to advance important initiatives. The role spans corporate strategy, corporate development, partnerships, operating model design, new business incubation, and enterprise execution. Its portfolio may evolve with business priorities and include both inorganic and organic growth initiatives. Reporting to the VP, Corporate Development, the Director leads assessments and prioritization of growth opportunities across Crunchyroll’s businesses, markets, products, and partnerships. The role translates ambiguous questions into structured analysis, practical options, and clear recommendations, then works with teams across the company to build alignment and drive execution. Embedded in the broader Strategy organization, the Corporate Development team works with senior leadership and Crunchyroll’s global businesses, including subscription video, digital manga, eCommerce, games, theatrical releases, and consumer products. The team evaluates and supports acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and organic growth initiatives, and partners with operating teams to turn strategic priorities into durable execution.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in corporate strategy, corporate development, management consulting, investment banking, private equity/investing, or a related strategic program leadership role.
- Track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from ambiguous problem definition through recommendation and execution.
- Strategic judgment and analytical rigor, including market assessment, business cases, financial analysis, scenario evaluation, and prioritization.
- Ability to communicate clearly and credibly with senior executives, business leaders, and functional subject-matter experts, including through polished, executive-ready presentations.
- Ability to create structure, clarify ownership, anticipate dependencies, follow through on commitments, and adapt as priorities change.
- Excellence, integrity, attention to detail, and an internal sense of urgency.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or other advanced degree.
- Excitement for media, entertainment, and technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead the assessment and prioritization of strategic growth opportunities across Crunchyroll’s businesses, markets, products, and partnerships.
- Translate ambiguous questions into structured analysis, practical options, and clear recommendations.
- Monitor market dynamics, competitive activity, emerging business models, and relevant trends; lead target screening, opportunity assessment, and prioritization across sectors, geographies, and business models.
- Build strategic, commercial, and financial frameworks to assess rationale, value-creation potential, risks, dependencies, and execution implications.
- Evaluate strategic partnerships and selected growth capabilities, including fit, economics, feasibility, risks, governance, and recommended path forward.
- Partner with business and functional leaders to shape deal structures, operating requirements, and implementation roadmaps.
- Prepare concise, decision-useful materials for senior leadership, executive committees, and board discussions, translating complex information into clear recommendations, decision asks, and next steps.
- Coordinate cross-functional workstreams, maintain action logs and decision registers, establish stakeholder cadences, and drive timely follow-through.
- Communicate uncertainty, data gaps, unresolved trade-offs, risks, and dependencies clearly and proactively.
- When needed, support selected integration-related initiatives, including pre-close planning, milestones, dependencies, and post-closing integration for business continuity.
- Work across Strategy, Corporate Development, Finance, Legal, Product, Content, Marketing, and other business teams to build alignment, drive execution, and lead cross-functional projects.
Benefits
- Salary plus annual performance bonus earning potential.
- Flexible time off policies.
- Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) program.
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA).
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Employer-paid commuter benefit.
- Support program for new parents.
- Pet insurance.
- Some offices are pet friendly.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
