Crunchyroll
Vice President, Content Protection & Anti-Piracy
Los Angeles, California, United States · Exec
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About the role
- Reporting to the General Counsel, you'll shape how Crunchyroll combats digital piracy and enables secure global distribution.
- You'll establish the long-term vision, operating model, technology roadmap, and strategic partnerships that help us stay ahead of evolving threats while supporting the continued growth of our business.
- Define Crunchyroll's global content protection and anti-piracy strategy aligned with our long-term business and content distribution goals
Responsibilities
- Manage external enforcement partners responsible for notice generation, investigations, intelligence gathering, software development, and unauthorized content detection
- Drive scalable enforcement across websites, streaming platforms, social media, search engines, cyberlockers, and other online services
- Build strategic relationships with digital platforms, hosting providers, registrars, CDN providers, payment processors, and industry organizations
- Develop executive reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and analytics that measure enforcement effectiveness, return on investment, and business impact
- Support executive initiatives and special projects related to protecting Crunchyroll's intellectual property
- Senior leadership experience within global streaming, media, or entertainment companies, building and scaling enterprise content protection programs that support worldwide content distribution.
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Requirements
- 15+ years of experience leading content protection, anti-piracy, digital rights management (DRM), trust & safety, intellectual property enforcement, or related programs.
- Hands-on experience with industry enforcement platforms, including YouTube Content ID, Meta Rights Manager, and Google Trusted Copyright Removal Program (TCRP).
- Strong analytical, executive communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex legal and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Juris Doctor or advanced degree in Law, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Degrees in Computer Science, Information Technology, Criminal Justice, Data Science, Business, or related disciplines are preferred.
Skills
- Evaluate new technologies, AI-enabled enforcement capabilities, and industry best practices to continuously strengthen our approach
Compensation
- The Pay Range for this position is listed.
- $274,400 - $330,000 USD
Benefits
- 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
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- 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.
- 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.
Company info
- 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!
- We are considering applicants available to work a hybrid schedule, with three days each week onsite at our Los Angeles office.
- 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.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion.
Equal opportunity
- Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll.
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