Marketing Project Specialist

Aniplex of America Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), a group of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and a leading provider of anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. The company's ever-growing line-up of shows include: March comes in like a lion, Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, ERASED, The Asterisk War, OWARIMONOGATARI,KIZUMONOGATARI, GRANBLUE FANTASY, Eromanga Sensei, Katsugeki TOUKEN RANBU, BLEND-S, Slow Start, and Record of Grancrest War. To learn more: http://aniplexusa.com/.

Department Overview

Aniplex of America Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex Inc. (Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), a group of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and a leading provider of anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. Aniplex of America has released numerous popular anime titles on disc, theatrical releases, streaming, TV broadcasting as well as mobile games. These tiles include Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, NieR:Automata, Fate/stay night franchise, Sword Art Online franchise, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, KILL la KILL, Monogatari series, and many others. www.AniplexUSA.com  www.Youtube.com/AniplexUSA  

 Position Summary 

Aniplex of America is looking for a organized and detail oriented  Marketing Project Specialist to join our team in Santa Monica, CA.  

This role manages marketing projects across anime production, games, merchandise, and live events. From planning through delivery, this role ensures timelines, billing, assets, contracts, vendors, and cross‑company partnerships are aligned and successfully delivered. This role partners closely with internal teams and external companies to bring anime experiences to fans through campaigns, conventions, and live events. 

This position requires someone with excellent communication skills who excels at managing multiple responsibilities with strong attention to detail and consistent follow-through. They possess a strong understanding of asset management and an understanding of how marketing assets are created, used, and delivered.  

The position has a HYBRID schedule. Employees are expected to work onsite in the Santa Monica office at least 2 days per week.  

Key Job Responsibilities 

• Marketing Project Coordination – manage timelines for launches, releases, events, and other campaigns and breaking marketing plans into tasks, dependencies, milestones and tracking progress and follow-through. 

• Maintain a marketing calendar for multiple shows and stay on top of the production schedule to work with various departments on asset creation, delivery, or announcement timing that aligns with overall marketing initiatives if necessary. 

• Communication between marketing (social, P