Principal Product Manager

<div class="content-intro"><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About Crunchyroll</h2> <p>Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>In the role of <strong>Principal Product Manager</strong>, you will report to the <strong>CPO </strong>and work directly with him to spearhead the setup and proof of concept of a new product development operating model. We are considering applicants for our<strong> Los Angeles, CA; or Dallas, TX</strong> locations.</p> <p>This is a highly impactful role focused on rethinking how products are built and delivered across Crunchyroll. Whereas a traditional product development model requires multiple sequential hand-offs, this role will help spearhead initiatives that explore unified delivery models and experimentations in ways-of-working.&nbsp;</p> <p>In this role, your charter will be to work directly with executive leadership to build a more seamless flow from idea, to prototype, to validation, to production. You will own the spin-up of various new operating models end-to-end. You will define what effective unified delivery teams look like in practice, identify the tooling and systems required to support them, and launch early pilot teams to test and refine the approach in real product environments.</p> <p>You will partner closely with leaders across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Business stakeholders to run these experiments, evaluate emerging AI-enabled development tools, and establish early proof points for a scalable product operating system for Crunchyroll.</p> <h3><strong>Core Areas of Responsibility</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Product Innovation &amp; Operating Model Design: </strong>Lead, execute, and validate a new product development operating model</li> <li><strong>AI-enabled Product Development &amp; Tooling Strategy: </strong>Identify and integrate AI tools, automation systems, and rapid prototyping capabilities into the product development lifecycle. Define how modern tooling and AI workflows can meaningfully accelerate discovery, experimentation, and delivery from idea through production.</li> <li><strong>Measurement, Alignment, and Scale Readiness: </strong>Define success metrics for the operating model and establish feedback loops to evaluate pe