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Creative Localization Specialist- Contract

Crunchyroll
Los Angeles, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 12/5/2025 CLOSED ON 1/3/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Creative Localization Specialist- Contract position at Crunchyroll?

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

As a Creative Localization Specialist at Crunchyroll you will support the Supervisor of Creative & English translation in a short term assignment to populate our Key Names and Phrases database. We have 100s of existing documents covering all of our library's controlled vocabulary.

This is slated as a 3 month contract role.

Core Areas of Responsibility

  • Move creative documentation into our new database, making it easy for all teams to access.
  • Highlight inconsistencies to your leader as you come across them.

About You

We get excited about candidates like you because...

  • You have experience in the area of localization, specifically in managing the creative and legal aspects of that work.
  • You have experience working in the Entertainment Industry, ideally with animated content.
  • You have hands-on experience working with controlled terminology or metadata management.

About The Team

The Crunchyroll localization team plays a crucial role in ensuring that anime fans worldwide can enjoy vibrant animated content in their native languages. Our team, which is diverse and collaborative, is spread out globally. We manage translations, subtitling and dubbing workflows. We take pride in preserving the vision of our creators as we adapt the content for our local audiences.

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

$28.85—$35.58 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.

Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights: https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/22978/v1_0/docs/spe-jobs-privacy-policy-update-for-crpa-dec-21-22.pdf

Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.

Salary : $29 - $36

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