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Principal Product Designer
Crunchyroll
San Francisco, CA, United States
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We are seeking a Principal Product Designer in San Francisco to work with the exceptionally talented Product Design team at Ellation, where we are actively building our core products—Crunchyroll and VRV.
Why is this role important for our work?
As Principal Product Designer, you will not only work as an Individual Contributor, designing features and products across multiple platforms and devices, but you will also work closely with the Senior Director of Product Design to help guide the Product Design Team. In this way you will ensure adherence to brand and product guidelines, and also provide design mentorship to other team members through commentary, critique, and pair-designing.
What you will do:
• Collaborate with other product design team members to help guide them to the best possible decisions.
• Work on projects touching web, mobile, tablet, and living room devices (roku, appletv, game consoles, etc).
• Provide design mentorship, critique, and commentary in-person and through online tools (primarily Invision and Jira).
• Act as an advocate for design to the rest of the company.
• Work closely with our San Francisco-based and Europe-based team members to ensure all work meets our levels of quality and craftsmanship.
• Help establish product and brand guidelines, and ensure all design work adheres to these guidelines.
• Complement and improve upon our existing product design workflow to optimize delivery to engineering.
• Report directly to the Senior Director of Product Design.
What you need:
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, or related design field (or applicable experience)
• 6+ years of product design experience for mobile, web, or living room platforms
• Prior experience working as a Senior-level Product Designer (or higher)
• Expert skills in modern design programs like Sketch or Figma, and in Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience working in an Agile development environment, and using Jira and Confluence
• A passion for pixel-perfection and incredible user experiences, and a desire to never settle for second-best
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally
Bonus Points if…
• You have an interest in anime, pop culture, animation, video games, tech and geekdom
• You have experience building consumer products that have shipped to the public
• You have knowledge of the online video streaming space
Please include with your application:
• A full resume
• A cover letter that mentions your favorite font and why it’s your favorite
• A portfolio with examples of product design work
Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, and Commuter benefits
• Fun, passionate and skilled co-workers
• Catered lunch and dinner 4x/week
• Pet friendly environment
Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com and @ellation.com email accounts. If you have any questions of the authenticity of an Ellation or Crunchyroll job offer, please contact jobs@crunchyroll.com before giving away any personal information.
About Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is a leading global destination and platform for Japanese anime and Asian content. Through applications including Crunchyroll for iPhone, iPad, Android, Playstation®3, Playstation®4, Xbox LIVE®, AppleTV, Roku, Internet-enabled TVs, set-top boxes, affiliate websites and its own streaming website, Crunchyroll delivers more than 25,000 episodes and 15,000 hours of officially-licensed content from leading Asian media producers direct to viewers translated professionally in multiple languages within minutes of TV broadcast. The company was founded in 2006 and now has over 700,000 paid subscribers and is a Top 10 SVOD service.
About Ellation, Inc. (General)
Ellation is a leading OTT video business committed to building premium video experiences for passionate superfans and creating a more sustainable direct-to-consumer business model for content creators and programmers. Ellation operates the anime streaming platform Crunchyroll, the crafting site Creativebug, and the recently launched VRV, a curated multi-channel platform for fans of animation, games, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, horror, and technology.
Ellation is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and is funded by Otter Media, a Joint Venture between The Chernin Group and AT&T.