Chief Creative Officer

Anime Universe; United States; Remote; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Anime Universe is seeking a Chief Creative Officer to lead their innovative content production efforts. This role requires a creative leader with over 10 years of experience to architect original content pipelines and deliver top-tier visual narratives across multiple formats. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of storytelling and be equipped to build and manage a distributed team, all while fostering a culture of creativity rooted in anime and interactive media.

Benefits

Equity partner level compensation

Token-based rewards pending legal compliance

Remote-first working environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years in creative production leadership across anime, games, visual storytelling, or digital content.
• Experience shipping high-quality content at scale, especially animation and interactive narrative media.
• Proven track record running end-to-end production across multiple formats.

Responsibilities

• Architect the entire content production pipeline from concept to release.
• Lead production of anime, trailers, world lore, and branded media.
• Build and scale a distributed creative team.

Skills

Creative production leadership

Content shipping at scale

Deep knowledge of creative tooling stacks

Leading distributed creative teams

Production management

Balance of aesthetics and ROI

Affinity for anime and storytelling

Job description

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animeuniverse.com || Founder @Anime Universe || Fi.co Toronto Grad 2018, Business Development, Sales, Product Vision, Industry Expert, Digital…

Chief Creative Officer (CCO)

– Equity Partner –

Location: Remote

Jurisdiction: Global

Minimum Commitment: 20 hours per week

Department: Content Production - Creative Core

Reports To: CEO

This is not a job. It's a Stake. It’s a content engine with a soul.

What You Put In Is What You Get Out

This is a founding-level production and storytelling command role.

As Chief Creative Officer, you are the force behind our original content—leading the strategy, systems, and standards for everything we ship across anime, interactive media, simulations, and IP-native formats.

You will build the pipelines.

You will scale the teams.

You will deliver world-class content—narratively, visually, and emotionally charged.

This is not just about storytelling. It’s about story-producing at a generational level.

Minimum commitment: 20 hours/week. If you can’t lead a global team of elite creators with fire and follow-through, this isn’t your studio.

This is an equity partner role. That means:

• No upfront cash compensation
• Equity (shares) at founding partner level (vesting standard)
• Future token-based rewards (pending legal review)
• Salary activates with revenue-based milestones
• Remote-first, async-native, production-velocity model

Let’s Be Absolutely Clear

This is not a creative sidekick position supporting an engineering-first org.

This is not a waiting-for-instructions “creative lead.”

This is not about making pitch decks pretty or sourcing fan art.

This is a full-stack production command role.

You will build and scale original content from zero to global IP.

You will lead the execution of our anime, storyworlds, lore, motion media, trailers, simulcontent, and multi-format assets—from concept to release.

Overview

We are recruiting a Chief Creative Officer to lead content production at Anime Universe.

You’ll run point on developing, managing, and shipping our most important content—from serialized anime and immersive trailers to simulation-native media and high-impact promotional drops. You will work closely with the CEO, R&D, AI, and worldbuilding teams to ensure the creative output of the studio is elite, coherent, scalable, and emotionally powerful.

You will turn vision into volume—without compromising quality.

What You’ll Own

• Architect the entire content production pipeline: concept, scripting, visual dev, animation, post
• Lead production of anime, trailers, world lore, visual content, music integration, and branded media
• Define the creative standards, workflows, and infrastructure for a fully-remote, async-native creative org
• Translate IP bible and narrative system into serialized, consumable, and monetizable content formats
• Collaborate with AI/simulation teams to build content that is co-generated or dynamically produced
• Own and evolve the release calendar, content milestones, production sprints, and quality bar
• Build and scale a distributed creative team: writers, designers, editors, VFX, motion animators, etc.
• Manage outsourcing, vendor pipelines, and cross-team delivery for complex media stacks
• Maintain fidelity to the Anime Universe mythos while optimizing for distribution and repeatability

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years in creative production leadership across anime, games, visual storytelling, or digital content
• Experience shipping high-quality content at scale—especially animation, motion graphics, or interactive narrative media
• Proven track record running end-to-end production across multiple formats (episodic, trailers, BTS, promos, worldbuilding assets)
• Deep knowledge of creative tooling stacks (Blender, Adobe Suite, Unreal, Toon Boom, etc.) and pipeline integration
• Experience leading distributed creative teams with async workflows and rapid iteration cycles
• A production brain with a creator’s heart—you understand how to balance beauty, timelines, and ROI
• Deep affinity for anime, simulation culture, internet-native storytelling, and emotionally intelligent content
• Bonus: Background in IP management, creative ops, or building studios from scratch

Compensation

• Equity (Shares): Founding partner-level equity
• Token-Based Rewards: Future layer pending legal compliance
• Future Salary: Activates with key revenue triggers
• Remote First: Fully distributed team; async-native execution

You’ll be the architect of Anime Universe’s media layer.

You’ll build the production machine that turns ideas into culture.

You’ll create stories that move people—and systems that never miss a beat.

If you’ve been waiting to lead a next-gen studio that creates the impossible, this is your moment.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Other

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development, Information Technology, and Art/Creative

• Industries

  Entertainment Providers, IT System Custom Software Development, and Technology, Information and Media

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