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# Localization and Dubbing, Senior Manager at Crunchyroll, LLC

- **Company:** Crunchyroll, LLC
- **Location:** Mumbai, India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/crunchyroll/jobs/8282446?gh_jid=8282446

## Job description

## 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

The Senior Manager, Localization & Dubbing will lead the planning, production, delivery, and quality control of localized content and local-language dubbing across Asia & Mena including India, Thailand, Indonesia, Phillipines, Korea, Taiwan & Saudi Arabia. The role will ensure Crunchyroll’s anime content is accessible, culturally relevant, accurate, timely, and consistent with global brand and editorial standards across the region.

You will manage localization and dubbing workflows from prioritization and commissioning through production, review, quality assurance, launch, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with Content, Marketing, Product, Partnerships, Creative Services, Communications, Legal, Customer Experience, Data, and external localization and dubbing partners.

This role requires strong cultural judgment, operational discipline, vendor management, and the ability to balance fan expectations, creative quality, launch timelines, and business priorities across a diverse, multi-market region.

## Role Overview

Lead Regional Localization and Dubbing

- Develop and execute localization and dubbing plans across priority markets aligned with content priorities, market demand, launch schedules, and business objectives.
- Lead the planning and delivery of local-language dubbing for priority titles and markets.
- Coordinate dubbing workflows from language and market prioritization through casting, recording, editing, mixing, mastering, delivery, and launch.
- Partner with Content and regional stakeholders to identify titles, languages, release priorities, and localization requirements.
- Ensure localized content supports regional fan growth, engagement, accessibility, discovery, and retention.

Own Dubbing Quality and Localization Standards

- Establish and maintain quality standards for local-language dubs, subtitles, metadata, synopses, artwork, product copy, and other localized assets.
- Lead quality-control processes for dubbing, including linguistic accuracy, cultural appropriateness, pronunciation, terminology, performance, audio quality, timing, and technical specifications.
- Review and resolve quality issues with dubbing studios, translators, editors, voice directors, and other external partners.
- Ensure localization reflects the intent, tone, cultural context, and creative integrity of the original content.
- Maintain regional language, editorial, accessibility, cultural, and brand standards in partnership with global teams.
- Use fan feedback, market insight, performance data, and quality findings to improve standards and workflows.

Manage Localization and Dubbing Partners

- Manage external localization vendors, dubbing studios, translators, voice talent, voice directors, quality-assurance providers, and other production partners.
- Establish clear briefs, scopes, schedules, service levels, quality expectations, review processes, and delivery requirements.
- Monitor vendor performance, capacity, cost, quality, turnaround times, and adherence to agreed standards.
- Build strong working relationships with partners while addressing performance gaps, escalations, and quality issues promptly.
- Support vendor selection, onboarding, evaluation, renewal, and continuous improvement.

Drive Operational Execution and Launch Readiness

- Manage localization and dubbing projects from intake and prioritization through delivery and post-launch review.
- Create clear workplans, milestones, owners, dependencies, approval paths, and escalation mechanisms.
- Coordinate launch readiness with Content, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, Creative Services, Communications, Customer Experience, and Operations.
- Ensure localized assets are delivered accurately, on time, and in the required formats for platforms, products, partners, campaigns, and channels.
- Maintain visibility into delivery status, risks, capacity constraints, dependencies, and issues affecting launch readiness.
- Support localized content availability across direct-to-consumer, distribution, partner, and à la carte channel experiences where applicable.

Build Scalable Processes and Frameworks

- Develop workflows, templates, quality checklists, standards, and operating procedures for localization and dubbing.
- Improve production efficiency, quality consistency, turnaround times, asset tracking, and cross-functional coordination.
- Establish documentation and reporting that provide visibility into localization coverage, delivery status, quality performance, vendor performance, and open issues.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and scale regional localization and dubbing operations.
- Share best practices, market learnings, and quality insights across regional and global teams.

## Experience and Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience in localization, dubbing, content operations, media operations, post-production, language services, or a related field.
- Experience managing local-language dubbing, subtitling, translation, or other audiovisual localization programs.
- Strong understanding of dubbing production workflows, including casting, recording, direction, editing, mixing, mastering, quality assurance, and delivery.
- Demonstrated experience establishing or applying quality standards for localized content and dubs.
- Experience managing localization vendors, dubbing studios, agencies, translators, voice talent, or production partners.
- Strong project management skills and experience managing multiple titles, languages, markets, timelines, and dependencies.
- Ability to balance creative quality, cultural nuance, fan expectations, launch deadlines, and operational constraints.
- Experience working with Content, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, Legal, Customer Experience, and global teams in a matrixed organization.
- Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- High attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality and execution.
- Comfort working across time zones and with globally distributed teams and external partners.
- Fluency in English is required; fluency or professional proficiency in relevant regional languages is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge and passion for anime, entertainment, and fan communities is a significant plus.

## 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

## 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.

Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights: https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/22978/v1_0/docs/spe-jobs-privacy-policy-update-for-crpa-dec-21-22.pdf

Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.

## About Crunchyroll, LLC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Crunchyroll is the world’s largest anime streaming service, delivering anime content, theatrical releases, merchandise, games, news, events, and music to a global fan community.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Joint Venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex of Japan)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in recent sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Entertainment (anime streaming and media)
- **Target customers**: B2C – anime fans globally (individual consumers)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We deliver what anime fans love—anytime, anywhere. We believe anime is more than entertainment—it’s a way of life.” [crunchyroll.com](https://crunchyroll.com/about/jobs)

## Products & Services
- **Crunchyroll Streaming Service**: The world’s largest anime streaming library with subtitled and dubbed content, available via web, mobile, and TV apps. (SaaS/Subscription)
- **Theatrical Releases**: Distribution of anime films in theaters worldwide.
- **Merchandise Store**: Official anime merchandise, figures, apparel, and collectibles (e-commerce).
- **Crunchyroll Games**: Mobile and browser games based on popular anime franchises.
- **News & Events**: Anime news coverage, virtual and in-person fan events, and conventions.
- **Music**: Anime soundtracks and original music distribution.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Funimation in 2020 for $1.175B; now part of Sony/Funimation Global Group)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $140.0M (as of latest data) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crunchyroll)
- **Total Funding**: $26.8M across 3 rounds (last venture round in 2015 led by Otter Media) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crunchyroll)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Aniplex of Japan, Otter Media, TV Tokyo
- **Growth Signals**: 1,453 employees operating in 31 countries; job postings up +82.9% year-over-year; LinkedIn followers +20.5% yearly; active in India, France, Mexico, Japan, and more. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crunchyroll)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest anime streaming library** globally, with deep catalog and simulcast rights.
- **Sony/Aniplex partnership** provides unique access to Japanese anime production and distribution.
- **Integrated ecosystem** spanning streaming, merchandise, games, events, and music—creating multiple touchpoints for fans.
- **Authenticity and cultural roots** in Japan, reinforced by the Aniplex connection.
- **Global scale** with offices in 14 cities and localized content in multiple languages.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand global reach into emerging markets (India, Latin America, Southeast Asia).
- Deepen fan engagement through interactive experiences (games, events, community features).
- Grow the merchandise and e-commerce business.
- Continue investing in original co-productions and theatrical releases.
- Leverage AI/ML for personalization and content discovery (e.g., hiring Manager of Machine Learning and Data Science). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/crunchyroll)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Employees are passionate about anime and serving a global fan community. [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/company/crunchyroll/faq/workplace-perception)
- **Hybrid work model**: Three in-person days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) with flexibility; remote options for some roles. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/crunchyroll)
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Health insurance, 401(k) match, mental-health support, flexible time off, free anime subscriptions, catered lunches, commuter benefits, pet-friendly offices, childcare benefits, and parental leave. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/crunchyroll)
- **Career development**: Job training, conferences, online course subscriptions, and promotion opportunities. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/crunchyroll)
- **Positive employee sentiment**: High satisfaction ratings on Glassdoor and Comparably, with praise for collaborative environment and growth opportunities. [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/company/crunchyroll/faq/workplace-perception)
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Dedicated DEI staff, documented equal pay policy, and highly diverse management team. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/crunchyroll)
- **Offices in 14 global locations**: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Mexico City, Hyderabad, and more. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/crunchyroll)

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crunchyroll) – Company overview, financials, workforce, and growth data.
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/crunchyroll) – Perks, culture, hybrid policy, benefits, and technology.
3. [crunchyroll.com](https://crunchyroll.com/about/jobs) – Official about page and mission.
4. [help.crunchyroll.com](https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs) – Hiring process and recruitment fraud warnings.
5. [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/company/crunchyroll/faq/workplace-perception) – Employee satisfaction and workplace perception.

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