Senior CX Instructional Designer

Crunchyroll, LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary plus performance bonus

Health benefits

401(k) with employer match

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Crunchyroll, LLC in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior CX Instructional Designer to craft compelling narratives and training materials for CX teams. You will own the strategy, creation, maintenance, and iteration of onboarding and broader learning programs, plus governance of CX tools and services.

Reporting to the Director, CX Enablement, you will lead needs analysis, curriculum design, delivery, and iterative improvement for new-hire ramp and role-specific pathways, with a focus on measurable

Qualifications

• 12+ years in instructional design, enablement, or knowledge roles supporting CX audiences.
• Immersive storytelling excellence: craft narratives that drive agent adoption to impact.
• Data storytelling: contextualize data, derive insights, and recommend actions.
• Learning design expertise: strong grasp of ADDIE/SAM or similar frameworks.
• Exceptional writing and editing for CX audiences with editorial judgment.
• AI literacy: hands-on experience with generative AI tools for content creation.

Responsibilities

• Lead storytelling and deck development: create narratives, visuals, and executive-ready decks; translate metrics into insights; maintain templates and content library.
• Own onboarding programs and learning experiences: lead needs analysis, curriculum design, delivery, and improvement for new-hire ramp and role-pathways; design assessments.
• Leverage Crunchyroll’s toolset: operate across collaboration, analytics, authoring, and content platforms; document scalable workflows.
• Stand up content operations: establish templates, versioning, style guides, and review loops across bootcamps, SOPs, playbooks, and knowledge base content.
• Champion accessibility and inclusion: ensure content meets accessibility standards and supports localization.

Skills

Storytelling

Onboarding design

Learning design

AI literacy

Data storytelling

Editing/writing

Job description

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

The primary focus of this role is to craft clear, compelling narratives and training materials for the CX teams that synthesize hands-on tools adoption and customer journey maps into learning excellence. You will also own the strategy, creation, maintenance, and iteration of our CX onboarding and broader learning programs, as well as the content structure and governance of our CX tools and services.

In the role of Senior CX Instructional Designer, 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, delivery, and iterative improvement for new-hire ramp and role-specific pathways; design assessments that measure behavior change.
• Leverage Crunchyroll’s toolset: Operate across Crunchyroll’s collaboration, 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 across bootcamp materials, SOPs, playbooks, and knowledge base content.
• Champion accessibility and inclusion: Ensure content and experiences meet accessibility standards, support localization as needed, and reflect inclusive practices.
• Leverage Crunchyroll’s toolset: Operate across Crunchyroll’s collaboration, analytics, authoring, and content platforms; document scalable workflows and continuously improve them.

About You

• 12+ years in instructional design, enablement, or knowledge roles supporting CX audiences.
• Immersive storytelling excellence: Proven ability to craft narratives that drive agent adoption into immediate impact while supporting our customers.
• Data storytelling: Comfort with metrics and qualitative signals; ability to contextualize data, derive insights, and recommend actions and tradeoffs.
• Learning design expertise: Strong grasp of ADDIE/SAM or similar frameworks; experience designing blended learning with measurable outcomes.
• Exceptional writing and editing: Clear, concise writing for CX audiences; strong editorial judgment and consistency.
• AI Literacy: Hands-on experience with generative AI tools or specialized instructional design AI assistants for content creation and editing.
• Technical fluency: Familiarity with CX operating models and the ability to translate "how work gets done" into content.
• Tool adaptability: Fast learner across Crunchyroll’s tools; able to connect systems and automate where practical to streamline content operations.
• Portfolio required: Only applications with portfolios will be considered.

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. 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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