Creative Director, EMEA

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

We're looking for a Creative Director to lead strategy, ideation, and execution for all EMEA content marketing initiatives. Reporting to the VP of Creative, you will drive bar-raising campaigns across anime content, seasonal releases, events, and regional initiatives. You'll translate complex challenges across titles, content, brand, and experience into clear, strategically nuanced creative briefs, mentor cross-disciplinary design teams, and ensure the highest quality creative output.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead creative strategy at scale, mentor design teams, collaborate with Global Creative Directors, and transform complex challenges into applicable, clear creative briefs across titles, content, brand, and experience.

• Build end-to-end creative quality from briefing through delivery, lead creative critiques to draw out the best ideas aligned with design and brand strategy, ensure pixel-perfect execution across all static and audio-visual assets, and manage multiple projects, timelines, and budgets without compromising creative excellence.

• Oversee preparation of presentation materials and refinements, guide design craft and production accuracy, and build and manage relationships with creative agencies that can deliver at scale.

• Foster trust-based relationships with internal and external partners, ensuring agreement while promoting a collaborative, ego-free creative environment.

• Navigate projects at all stages—from early ideation and concept development to live campaigns—adapting creatively in real-time, participating in presentations and marketing shoots, managing partners across time zones, and staying ahead of anime and pop-culture trends.

We are considering applicants available to work a hybrid schedule, with three days each week onsite at our London office.

About You

We get excited about candidates, like you, because you are a visionary creative leader who consistently delivers bar-raising campaigns, guides cross-disciplinary teams, and brings anime, entertainment, and fan-focused content to life with bold, strategic storytelling

• 12+ years of creative experience, including 6+ years in senior creative roles

• You have a solid portfolio showcasing campaign success, consumer insights, and creative leadership

• You have experience leading creative teams and managing agencies

• You have a track record translating complex business challenges into clear, strategically nuanced creative briefs

• You have a strong understanding of anime, manga, entertainment, streaming, and youth/fandom-focused audiences in EMEA

• You have experience in content marketing, branding, or entertainment campaigns

• You have excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills

• You are proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Google Workspace

• You have managed multiple projects, timelines, and budgets while maintaining creative excellence

About the Team

The Creative Services team at Crunchyroll is a passionate group of designers, writers, producers, and creative leaders who develop campaigns and experiences that bring anime to life. From trailers and brand storytelling to social content and events, we create work that celebrates the art of anime, honors its stories, and connects with fans around the world. We operate across regions, time zones, and formats — always with a shared goal of making anime feel as vibrant and emotionally powerful as it truly is.

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:

• Best-in class medical, dental, and vision private insurance healthcare coverage

• Access to counseling & mental health sessions 24/7 through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Employer 5% salary contribution into a DC Pension Plan

• Allowances for Gym & Wellness, Meals, Commuting

• Free premium access to Crunchyroll along with monthly discounts to the Crunchyroll store

• Professional Development

• Company's Paid Parental Leave

• up to 22 weeks for birthing parents

• up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents

• Hybrid Work Schedule

• Paid Time Off

• Flex Time Off

• 5 Yasumi Days

• Half-Day Fridays during the summer

• Winter Break

#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

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Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.

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Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.

• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

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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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