Senior Manager, Marketing Operations - Europe
London, England · London · 8+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- London, England · London
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 Manager, Regional Marketing Operations is responsible for turning global and regional marketing priorities into coordinated, localized, production-ready, and successfully delivered marketing activity across the Region.
- This role owns the regional execution layer of the marketing operating model, connecting Regional Marketing with Crunchyroll’s global operational capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Own the operational coordination of the Region’s marketing activity, translating global and regional marketing strategies into executable plans, milestones, asset requirements, localization needs, dependencies, and delivery schedules.
- Partner closely with Integrated Planning to incorporate regional priorities, launches, campaigns, tentpoles, local initiatives, and market requirements into the broader global marketing planning process.
- Manage the localization workflow for all global and regional marketing assets required by the Region, including copy, key art, trailers, video, social assets, paid-media creative, CRM materials, partner assets, and promotional content.
- Partner with Marketing Production to communicate regional production and localization requirements early, define necessary versions and formats, and ensure global source assets are structured to enable efficient regional adaptation.
- Work closely with Marketing Delivery within Distribution Operations, Content and Marketing to ensure final global and localized marketing assets are packaged, distributed, and made available to the correct regional destinations on time.
- Partner with Regional Marketing, Content, Social, CRM, Paid Media, Partnerships, Brand, PR, and other local stakeholders to consolidate operational requirements and create one coordinated regional view of campaign execution.
- Establish clear readiness checkpoints for priority campaigns and launches, validating that required source assets, localized versions, formats, approvals, metadata, specifications, and delivery destinations are complete.
- Own the operational coordination of marketing requirements unique to the Region, including local platforms, commercial partners, media channels, regulatory considerations, language requirements, cultural adaptations, and market-specific formats.
- Serve as the regional operational control point when marketing assets, localization, production, or delivery issues threaten campaign execution.
- Track regional marketing operations performance across campaign readiness, on-time asset availability, localization turnaround, production delivery, error rates, rework, and recurring operational issues.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in marketing operations, campaign operations, creative operations, localization, marketing production, media operations, or a related field, ideally within entertainment, streaming, media, technology, or another global consumer business.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-market marketing campaigns with significant dependencies across planning, creative production, localization, asset management, and delivery.
- Strong understanding of marketing localization, including translation, transcreation, cultural adaptation, asset versioning, review and approval workflows, and the operational requirements associated with delivering localized creative at scale.
- Experience coordinating both globally originated campaigns and locally originated marketing activity, with the ability to operate effectively between central capabilities and regional business needs.
- Strong knowledge of marketing production workflows across multiple asset types, including digital, video, social, paid media, CRM, partner marketing, and promotional creative.
- Proven ability to coordinate across highly matrixed organizations and establish effective working relationships among regional teams and global functions.
- Excellent project and operational management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple campaigns, markets, languages, asset types, dependencies, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to identify execution risks early and drive issues through to resolution.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence teams across functions, cultures, and time zones.
- High attention to detail and a strong commitment to brand consistency, localization quality, executional excellence, and the fan experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience within anime, entertainment, streaming, television, gaming, or another global content-led consumer business.
- Experience managing marketing localization across multiple languages and markets.
- Familiarity with campaign-management, project-management, digital asset-management, localization-management, and marketing-delivery platforms.
- Experience working with creative agencies, localization vendors, production partners, media agencies, and external distribution or commercial partners.
- Demonstrated experience improving marketing workflows through standardization, automation, operational metrics, and root-cause analysis.
Benefits
- Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
- Flexible time off policies
- 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
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace
