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 Team
The Customer Experience Incident Response team plays a critical role in ensuring Crunchyroll delivers a seamless and reliable experience to anime fans around the world. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners, the team identifies, investigates, and helps resolve issues impacting our fans, while transforming data and insights into opportunities for continuous improvement. With a strong focus on collaboration, technical problem-solving, and innovation, the team works to improve incident detection, streamline response processes, and prevent recurring issues. Success is measured by our ability to proactively identify issues, reduce resolution times, and minimize the impact on our fans, ultimately creating a better Crunchyroll experience for our integral community.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly analytical and technically fluent Associate CX Incident Response Manager to transform fan-reported issues into actionable insights that improve product reliability and user experience at scale.
Sitting at the intersection of Customer Experience, Product, and Engineering, this role owns the systems, data, and processes that power effective incident detection, response, and prevention. While frontline CXIR responders focus on real-time issue handling, the Associate CXIR Manager serves as the intelligence and ownership layer. This ensures incidents are properly aggregated, analyzed, and translated into business impact.
This role requires strong analytical thinking, systems-level understanding, and domain expertise in how digital products and services operate.
Responsibilities
Aggregate and synthesize fan-reported issues into structured incidents for tracking and analysis
Perform root cause analysis to identify systemic drivers of user impact
Quantify incident impact, including volume, affected user segments, and business implications
Track and report on key performance metrics (e.g., time to detect, time to resolution, recurrence trends)
Build, maintain, and optimize dashboards (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, or similar tools) for incident detection




Author and tune detection and alerting thresholds within a detection engine to balance signal versus noise
Identify gaps in detection coverage and implement improvements to enable earlier issue identification
Own and evolve incident tracking and management systems (e.g., Salesforce, FireHydrant, Jira, Slack integrations)
Design and maintain workflows, automations, and data models
Ensure data integrity, consistency, and usability across systems
Establish and enforce data standards for incident tracking
Serve as a primary point of contact for Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders on incident-related insights
Translate fan impact into partner-relevant metrics and KPIs
Create structured feedback loops to inform product improvements and prioritization
Validate incident creation and aggregation logic
Ensure incidents are properly categorized, enriched, and resolved
Lead or contribute to post-incident reviews and reporting
Drive continuous improvement of incident response processes
Partner with teams on launch and release readiness, including monitoring plans, success metrics, and alerting strategies
Identify recurring issues and advocate for long-term fixes
Develop playbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to improve response consistency
Maintain internal documentation including processes, workflows, and playbooks
Provide guidance and support to frontline teams handling incidents
Lead knowledge-sharing sessions to improve team effectiveness
Requirements
Technical Domain Expertise
Proficient with SQL
Ability to work with Databricks data
Salesforce (or similar CRM) infrastructure, data models, or reporting
Experience with authoring and tuning detection and alerting within a detection engine
Payment Systems / Billing Infrastructure
Site Reliability / Production Systems
Content & Media Operations (ingestion, encoding, distribution)
Video Playback Systems / Streaming Players (buffering, DRM, playback failures)
User Account & Identity Systems
(Required 1-2 of the following)
Demonstrated working knowledge in at least 1-2 of the following areas:
Note: Depth is prioritized over breadth. Candidates should be comfortable diagnosing issues and understanding system behavior within at least one domain.




Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
Experience with data and reporting tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Salesforce reporting)
Ability to synthesize large datasets into clear insights and narratives
Comfort working with ambiguous or incomplete information
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to prioritize effectively in fast-paced, incident-driven environments
Strong ownership mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
Experience in incident management, support operations, or SRE environments
Familiarity with tools such as Salesforce, FireHydrant, Jira, Airtable, or similar platforms
Experience building dashboards, automations, or workflows
Understanding of customer support data and escalation patterns
Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy great benefits and perks:
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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