Principal Product Manager

About this role

• As Principal Product Manager for Search & Content Understanding, you will define how Crunchyroll connects fans to the anime they love—and helps them discover new stories—through fast, relevant, and data-driven discovery systems
• You’ll lead initiatives that combine search relevance, metadata enrichment, and content relationships to make discovery more meaningful, efficient, and personalized across our global platforms
• You will partner closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, and design teams to shape the discovery strategy, guide the roadmap, and build scalable systems that enhance engagement across the Crunchyroll ecosystem
• Beyond optimizing search, you’ll evolve our content intelligence layer—integrating knowledge graphs, third-party and ML-generated metadata, and relational modeling across our catalog to fuel the future of curation, personalization, and discovery
• Search Innovation: Deliver faster, smarter, and more relevant search experiences by combining relevance modeling, semantic understanding, and user intent prediction. Ensure every fan can find what they’re looking for—and discover something new—effortlessly
• Content Understanding and Knowledge Graphs: Develop and expand Crunchyroll’s metadata and knowledge graph systems to represent relationships between titles, creators, genres, and themes
• Leverage both internal and third-party metadata to improve search, curation, and personalization fidelity
• AI and ML Collaboration: Partner with ML and data science teams to identify, pilot, and scale new AI-driven approaches to content understanding, query interpretation, and relationship modeling
• Contribute to roadmap decisions on how ML systems shape discovery outcomes
• Discovery Platform Integration: Collaborate across curation, personalization, and engineering teams to ensure that metadata and search systems serve as a shared foundation for all discovery experiences
• Drive alignment across tools and surfaces to unify how content i...