Evaluate and execute domestic and international investments and partnerships, develop acquisition targets and support integration and portfolio-company management.
Sanrio develops character brands such as Hello Kitty, selling merchandise and licensing designs to businesses for consumer products and entertainment. Its portfolio includes My Melody, Kuromi and other characters, used in retail goods, partner products and themed entertainment facilities.
Merchandise sales and licensing fees are key revenue sources, alongside theme-park operations. The company manages character rights and works with partners that apply those designs to their products. Its own shops and facilities provide direct channels to fans and consumer audiences.
- Salary range
- ¥5M – ¥12.8M
- Median
- ¥6.5M – ¥9.3M
- Remote or hybrid
- 95%
- Most requested
- Native Japanese 3
- Japanese posting, level unstated 18
- Common areas
- Project management 5
- Sales 4
- Marketing 3
- Business development 1
Measured from the 21 listings Ranked has live for Sanrio. Japanese level, visa signal and skills are AI-graded from each posting and can be wrong — confirm against the employer's original posting before applying.
21
open positions at Sanrio
Plan and manage original animation and localisation projects, direct creative quality, and coordinate teams, budgets and delivery with domestic and overseas partners.
Sell and promote character video content, negotiate distribution and licensing, manage launches and contracts, and develop new partners and commercial projects.
Lead marketing plans for new games, define KPIs and budgets, coordinate teams and partners, and help develop the game business’s wider marketing organisation.
Develop character collaborations with game and digital businesses, manage proposals, schedules and budgets, and coordinate overseas offices and partner teams.
Build operational foundations for global games, coordinate regulatory work and support systems, and improve customer-service, payment and revenue processes.
Plan and operate domestic, global and children’s character channels, programme video content, manage KPIs and coordinate international creative production partners.
Develop sports licensing deals, negotiate character collaborations and coordinate overseas subsidiaries, with additional support for film and other content partnerships.
Plan and deliver expansion of character food businesses, build operating standards and franchise arrangements, and manage sales, profitability and product initiatives.
Plan character growth campaigns, events and fan experiences, connect social, PR and sales teams, and manage projects from creative strategy through delivery.
Grow a character-based early-childhood English-learning service through web promotions, website direction, digital advertising and new sales-channel development.
Create and supervise character designs for games and digital services, or produce and manage 3D character assets, coordinating external creators and quality checks.
Turn character artwork into 3D merchandise prototypes, prepare print and manufacturing data, and coordinate product teams and factories on production-ready designs.
Develop advertising or apparel licensing proposals, build client relationships and drive character projects from ideas and contracts through commercial rollout.
Manage time records, payroll, social-insurance procedures and employment rules, support employee benefits and improve HR operations during organisational change.
Manage product shipments, logistics systems and workflows at Sanrio’s distribution centre, coordinate sales and manufacturing, and improve cost and operating reliability.
Design and code e-commerce pages, banners and social images, maintain online stores and work with designers and operations teams on improvements and renewal projects.
Resolve complex online-store enquiries, coordinate logistics, payments and systems teams, and improve customer-support policies, documentation and recurring issues.
Define e-commerce system requirements, deliver new features, manage vendors and improve security, incident response and reliable online-store operations.
Develop global character-brand strategy, plan and direct content, coordinate overseas offices and creative partners, and manage project schedules and budgets.
Review licensed character products for design quality and brand consistency, and create visual and merchandise designs with licensing partners and internal teams.