Sr. Graphic Designer - Crunchyroll Games (Contract)

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Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is the world's most popular anime brand. We’re an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for anime fans, through content (licensed, co-produced, and originals), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more.

About the team:

The Crunchyroll Games team is growing fast! We are a team of highly-motivated people spanning several internal departments — from Business to Marketing to Audience Development to Design. The team works closely with content providers and licensors to develop and promote mobile games for the Crunchyroll community. We are adding this position to support the promotion of our ever-expanding library of games.

Location: San Francisco

Our headquarters is located in downtown San Francisco, where our group of cross-functional specialists assemble to create experiences for Crunchyroll and VRV’s passionate communities.

About you:

Do you love mobile gaming and innovative design? Are you interested in bringing awesome games to our passionate and lively community? If so, we have the perfect job opportunity for you! We are looking for a hardworking and highly-motivated Graphic Designer to join the games team for a 6-month contract basis.

  • Bachelor’s degree in graphic, visual, or web design or equivalent experience
  • Strong portfolio showcasing design work that has shipped to market as well as your design process
  • 5+ years of professional design experience. Design experience with social media marketing or games marketing a plus
  • Can consistently produce creative solutions that serve the needs of the users and business
  • Flexible and can navigate a fast-paced environment. Can handle your time effectively across multiple projects to adhere to production schedules
  • Self-motivated, hard-working, and eager to learn
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills. Ability to explain creative concepts, requirements, and process clearly and concisely
  • A track record of successful end-to-end project concepting, design, and delivery to market
  • Expert skills in modern design programs like Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch
  • Understanding and up to date experience with modern web application technologies and responsive web design
  • Familiarity with anime, gaming and online fandom communities a plus
  • Experience working with IPs a plus
  • Understanding of social media channels and standard methodologies preferred

A day in the life of our Sr. Graphic Designer Contractor:

  • Works collaboratively with the cross-functional team to envision and craft the ideal experience
  • Drives the design process, gathering input and feedback from internal and external partners
  • Delivers digital designs and assets in collaboration with creative team members
  • On occasion, communicates with external licensors to drive approvals and alignment
  • Works with front-end web developer on web design aspects
  • Works with the Events team to build collateral for print

Benefits and Perks: San Francisco Office

  • Competitive rate
  • On-site gym, showers, yoga, and wellness classes
  • Catered lunch 4 days per week
  • Fun, passionate, and skilled co-workers
  • Dog friendly office

Ellation

What’s with the name, Ellation? We’re all a cast of characters that get passion and strive to celebrate fandom in all its forms. So we’re building a collection of destinations (a constellation, if you will) that connect people with their passions. Each day, we work to achieve complete fan elation (our vision), starting with popular subscription-video-on-demand brands, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, and VRV. Our team spans across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Chișinău, and Tokyo to develop the product, design, engineering, marketing, and content that brings our communities of fans together.

Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is the world's most popular anime brand. We’re an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for anime fans, through content (licensed, co-produced, and originals), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more.  

Rooster Teeth

Rooster Teeth is the entertainment company for gamers. A pioneer in digital entertainment, we’ve spent 16 years fostering a passionate worldwide community around original western-style anime, animation, podcasts, gaming personalities, and comedy content. Rooster Teeth’s diversified business encompasses subscription video, live events, merchandise, brand integrations, licensed studio productions, game development, and more.

VRV

VRV is a collection of fandom brands on a unified platform and includes Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, Viacom’s NickSplat, and more. Our community connects through immersive content experiences in a digitally-driven environment via bundled subscription, a la carte subscription, or ad-supported options.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Ellation. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Location

444 Bush St, San Francisco, CA 94108

An Insider's view of Crunchyroll

What’s the vibe like in the office?

Crunchyroll’s workplace environment helps create lifelong colleagues and has an unmatched culture of passion. Between socials, team-wide Japan trips, game nights, and professional conferences, I’ve met some of the most fun and talented people here.

Terry

GM of Games and Head of 360

How does the company support your career growth?

Even when opportunity doesn't knock, this team will build a door. The spirit, tenacity, & genuine, energizing joy this team has for our work, our mission, & our fans make it impossible not to grow. It's amazing to see our vision go from an imagined thought to something real that delights people around the world.

Mae

Associate Manager, Social Media

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I experienced tremendous growth at this company for the past half-decade. From my perspective, communication between teams and departments is only getting better.

Maria

Staff Security & Compliance Engineer

What are Crunchyroll Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Crunchyroll encourages and facilitates all forms of local community volunteering including Techbridge Girls in the Bay Area, Cat Town - Oakland, Baby2Baby, and A Sense of Home.
Partners with nonprofits
Crunchyroll has partnered with numerous US-based STEAM organizations including Ryman Arts & The Barcid Foundation, as well as The Inter College Animation Festival and Amusement Media Academy in Japan.
Open door policy
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
Summer hours
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Company-wide vacation
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Pet friendly
Relocation assistance
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

Free premium access to Crunchyroll & Funimation Digital Library.
Employee discount to eCommerce store.

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