# Managing Editor

**Company**: Duolingo
**Location**: Remote - Japan
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: ¥17,178,000-¥25,767,100 JPY
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8637185002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c1f12660-543

## Description

We are looking for a Managing Editor, Character IP to lead Duolingo's manga and anime expansion in Japan.

You will join a team that cares about educating users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Setting and upholding Duolingo's high-quality bar across all creative projects in this pipeline

- Partnering with Design Studio Creative Directors to define Duo's Japanese character profile

- Writing plots and leading original story development when needed

- Scouting and briefing manga artists and illustrators

- Building and managing relationships with publishers and editors

- Selecting and managing anime production studios

- Pitching to and building relationships with TV networks

Requirements:

- Hands-on manga editing/directing experience

- Proven ability to develop original stories

- Sharp editorial/directorial instincts

- Real relationships with publishers, manga artists, and writers

- Working knowledge of anime production

- Existing connections with major TV networks

- Exceptional collaboration skills

- Business-level English

Exceptional candidates will have:

- Experience taking a manga property all the way through to anime adaptation

- Familiarity with social-native formats

- Background in brand licensing, merchandise, or IP business development

- Experience with inbound or outbound IP localization

## Skills

### Required
- manga editing
- directing
- story development
- anime production
- project management
- collaboration

### Nice to have
- manga adaptation
- social-native formats
- brand licensing
- IP localization

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Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8637185002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)