Crunchyroll
Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering
🇺🇸
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
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Full-Time
💰
$99K - $138K
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Instructional Design
🗓️
January 18th, 2026
ADDIE
Edtech.com's Summary
Crunchyroll is hiring a Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering. The role involves leading the strategy and execution of engineering onboarding and learning programs, managing the Engineering intranet's architecture, and establishing streamlined content operations within the engineering team. The Senior Instructional Designer will work closely with engineering leadership to design impactful learning experiences and maintain current, accessible resources.
Highlights
- Lead engineering onboarding programs and continuous learning experiences for new hires and specific roles.
- Conduct needs analysis, develop curriculum, design assessments for behavior change, and iterate programs.
- Manage the Engineering intranet’s information architecture, including taxonomy, tagging, and content governance.
- Use Crunchyroll’s collaboration, analytics, authoring, and content platforms to improve workflows.
- Establish templates, version control, style guides, and review processes for bootcamp materials, SOPs, and knowledge base content.
- Require 8–10+ years in instructional design or related roles supporting technical audiences, with senior-level portfolio.
- Expertise in crafting narratives and presentations for senior technical leaders and data storytelling.
- Strong knowledge of learning design frameworks such as ADDIE or SAM and technical fluency with engineering processes like SDLC and Agile/DevOps.
- Compensation ranges from $99,000 to $124,000 in Los Angeles and $110,000 to $138,000 in San Francisco, plus performance bonuses and benefits.
- Team supports operational effectiveness through process development, budget management, and executive communications within Engineering.
Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering Full Description
Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering
Los Angeles, California, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States
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
As the Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering you will lead the strategy, creation, maintenance, and iteration of our engineering onboarding, broader learning programs, and the governance of Engineering intranet.
In the role of Senior Instructional Designer, Engineering, you will report to the Senior Engineering Operations Manager.
We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco and Los Angeles. We work a hybrid schedule, in office three days a week; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Primary Responsibilities
- You will lead engineering onboarding programs and engineering learning experiences.
- You will lead needs analysis, curriculum, delivery, and iterative improvement for engineering new-hire ramp and role-specific pathways. You will design assessments that measure behavior change.
- Run intranet information architecture: Curate the Engineering hub for findability and freshness; define taxonomy, tagging, and governance; maintain single sources of truth.
- Use Crunchyroll's toolset: Operate across Crunchyroll's collaboration, analytics, authoring, and content platforms; document scalable workflows and improve them.
- Stand up engineering content operations: Establish templates, versioning, style guides, and DA/DRI review loops across bootcamp materials, SOPs, strategies, and knowledge base content.
About You
We get excited about candidates like you because...
- 8–10+ years in instructional design, enablement, or knowledge roles supporting technical audiences, with a senior-level portfolio.
- Experience crafting succinct narratives and decks for senior technical leaders; expert in shaping message, structure, and visuals for decisions.
- Data storytelling: Comfort with metrics and qualitative signals; ability to contextualize data, derive insights, and recommend actions and tradeoffs.
- Learning design expertise: Strong grasp of ADDIE/SAM or similar frameworks; experience designing blended learning with measurable outcomes.
- Exceptional writing and editing: Clear, concise writing for technical audiences; strong editorial judgment and consistency.
- Program and stakeholder management: Ability to plan roadmaps/backlogs, facilitate reviews, and align cross-functional SMEs and senior partners.
- Technical fluency: Familiarity with how engineering orgs operate (SDLC, Agile/DevOps concepts) and the ability to translate “how work gets done” into content.
- Tool adaptability: Fast learner across Crunchyroll's tools; able to connect systems and automate where practical to streamline content operations.
- Portfolio required: Only applications with portfolios will be considered.
About the Team
The Engineering Operations team creates operational effectiveness by developing repeatable processes, managing budget planning with best‑practice finance tracking, and using OKRs to drive accountability and performance. Partnering with engineering leadership, we shape department strategies aligned to organizational goals and deliver executive‑level communications, presentations, and briefings to support decision‑making.
Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
Pay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA
$99,000 - $124,000 USD
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
Pay Transparency - San Francisco, CA
$110,000 - $138,000 USD
About our Values
We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value
- Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
- Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. 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.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
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