Senior Instructional Designer, Customer Experience

## 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 In this role you will craft clear, compelling narratives and training materials for the customer experience teams. You will own the strategy, creation, maintenance, and iteration of our customer experience onboarding and broader learning programs. This includes content structure and governance of our customer experience tools and services. In the role of Senior Instructional Designer, Customer Experience, you will report to the Director, CX Enablement. We are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles. ### **Core Areas of Responsibility** - **Lead storytelling and deck development**: - Create audience-appropriate narratives, visuals, and executive-ready decks - Translate technical work and metrics into insights, tradeoffs, and recommendations - Maintain reusable templates and a source-of-truth content library - **Own onboarding programs and learning experiences**: - Lead needs analysis, curriculum design, and iterative improvement for new-hire ramp and role-specific pathways - Design assessments that measure behavior change - **Leverage Crunchyroll’s toolset**: - Operate collaboratively across analytics, authoring, and content platforms - Document scalable workflows and continuously improve them - **Stand up content operations**: - Establish templates, versioning, style guides, and DA/DRI review loops for bootcamp materials, SOPs, playbooks, and knowledge base content - **Champion accessibility and inclusion**: - Ensure content and experiences meet accessibility standards - Support localization efforts - Champion inclusive practices ## About You - 12+ years in instructional design, enablement, or knowledge roles supporting customer experience audiences. - Immersive storytelling excellence: 5+ years of experiencing crafting narratives that drive agent adoption into immediate impact. - Data storytelling: ability to contextualize data, derive insights, and recommend actions and tradeoffs. - Learning design expertise: experience with ADDIE/SAM or similar frameworks; experience designing blended learning with measurable outcomes. - Experience creating, editing, and crafting copy. - AI Literacy: Hands-on experience with generative AI tools or specialized instructional design AI assistants for content creation and editing. - Technical fluency: Familiarity with customer experience operating models and the ability to translate into instructional content. - Tool adaptability: Able to connect systems and automate where practical to streamline content operations. ## 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 #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 $110,000—$140,000 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. 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