Senior Director, IT

About Crunchyroll

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.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

About the Role

You will lead end-to-end IT Experience (service desk, endpoints, enterprise apps, collaboration tools) while driving cloud modernization and establishing IT governance, cybersecurity, and compliance for Crunchyroll's hybrid, global workforce. The leader owns budget, OKRs and KPIs, advances the enterprise application roadmap, partners with the Business, Security, and Engineering, and builds a high-performing, customer experience-centric team to deliver reliable, scalable, and measurable outcomes.

You will report to the Senior VP, IT and Security. This position is based in our Los Angeles or Dallas offices. We work a hybrid schedule in-office 3 days a week; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

A Day In The Life:

• Own IT service delivery and operations, including service desk, endpoint deployment, enterprise apps, collaboration tooling.
• Champion the employee experience, ensuring seamless access, collaboration, and support for a hybrid workforce. Focus on IT impact, including, currency of technology, and the welcome to Crunchyroll IT experience of new employees.
• Lead cloud services, driving modernization, scalability, observability, and cyber resilience.
• Establish IT governance and controls, including change management, asset management, vendor and contract management, and software lifecycle management.
• Partner with Security to strengthen cybersecurity posture, ensuring MFA, device compliance, patching, and incident response readiness.
• Guide enterprise application roadmap, collaborating with business owners to implement, integrate, and optimize systems.
• Lead a high-performing IT organization, developing talent, clarifying roles, and encouraging a culture of customer-centricity, accountability, and inclusion.
• Guide budgeting and financial management, including forecasting, cost optimization, licensing strategy, and vendor negotiations.
• Set and monitor KPIs/SLAs, CSAT, including uptime, MTTR, ticket resolution, onboarding/offboarding, device compliance, and user satisfaction.
• Support audits and compliance (e.g., PCI, NIST, ISO 27001, SOX), ensuring controls are implemented, evidenced, and improved.
• Enable M&A and major initiatives, integrating systems, identities, and devices, and executing change management across the organization.

About You

• 15+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years leading at Sr. Director/VP level in complex, high-growth, global environments.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Ownership of enterprise IT portfolios, including service desk, endpoints, identity, networks, and corporate applications.
• Expertise in cloud-first environments, modern endpoint management, zero-trust principles, and identity platforms.
• Expertise in budget ownership, vendor management, contract negotiation, and cost optimization.
• Experience partnering with Security and Engineering to deliver secure, reliable, and compliant services.
• Program and change management skills, prioritize, communicate, and deliver outcomes across cross-functional teams.
• Leadership and communication, influencing at the executive level and translating complexity into clear decisions.
• Strategic and roadmap ownership, with a bias for measurable outcomes.
• Operational excellence, using metrics, automation, and continuous improvement to raise reliability and efficiency.
• Stakeholder partnership, building trust with business leaders and translating needs into pragmatic solutions.
• People leadership, coaching, succession planning, and creating an inclusive, high-performance culture.
• Security-minded decision-making, embedding risk management and privacy-by-design into IT services.
• Hybrid workforce enablement, with global support models and follow-the-sun operations.