Data Analyst III

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

Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The Data Engineering team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.

We are seeking a Data Analyst with strong SQL skills and experience in dashboard development, data governance, and analytics. The ideal candidate will work closely with stakeholders across the organization to turn raw data into actionable insights, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and compliance. You will play a key role in optimizing reporting frameworks, building data visualizations, and supporting data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write efficient, optimized SQL queries to extract, transform, and analyze data from relational databases (e.g., RDS, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Develop, maintain, and enhance interactive dashboards and reports using BI tools such as Tableau, Looker.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and governance by implementing best practices in data validation, lineage tracking, and documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define key metrics, create standardized reporting frameworks, and improve data accessibility.
• Support ad-hoc analysis to answer critical business questions and drive strategic decision-making.
• Partner with data engineering teams to improve ETL/ELT pipelines, ensuring clean and structured data for analysis.
• Monitor and analyze cloud and database usage costs, identifying opportunities to optimize query performance, storage, and infrastructure costs.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into data-driven insights and reports.
• Implement data governance best practices to ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
  
  

About You

We get excited about candidates, like you, because...

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, or analytics roles.
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to write complex queries, optimize performance, and work with large datasets.
• Experience with dashboarding and BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or Mode).
• Understanding of data governance, data cataloging, and compliance best practices.
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT workflows and experience working with data engineers on pipeline improvements.
• Experience with cloud cost monitoring tools and optimizing query performance and storage costs.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a keen eye for data accuracy and visualization best practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
  

Good to Have:

• Experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Familiarity with Python for data analysis.
• Experience working with data cataloging and metadata management tools ( Alation, Databricks Unity Catalog).
  
  

About The Team

The Data Services team is focused on building robust, scalable, and efficient data services, pipelines, lakes, tools, libraries, and software components that drive best practices and empower service teams to succeed. We design and implement data services, pipelines and data lakes for operational analysis, ensuring they are production-ready with automation and standardized access controls. We also provide data insights and tools to our users to be able to analyze the data.

We lead and evangelize the principle of 100% automation. Additionally, we establish best practices, provide training, and document data architectures to ensure our systems are reliable, future-ready, and capable of continuous evolution and process improvement across the organization.

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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