Technical Release Manager
We are looking for a dynamic new member to join our team of Release Managers. You will be part of the team responsible for managing and coordinating the release of Unity to over a million developers and billions of end users. You will be based in our amazing new Bellevue studio with its gorgeous view of the mountains and Lake Washington, where you will work closely with the R&D teams there. We are a global and distributed company, so you will also collaborate with teams across our other U.S. and worldwide studios, and you will have opportunities to travel.
As a Release Manager, you will be helping us to deliver the best possible Unity releases to our growing user base, according to the schedule you will help to define. Release Management at Unity is part of the Release Engineering Group, where we work with R&D with a global mission of improving the way we work to deliver outstanding quality to our users.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with producers and product managers to plan the schedule and scope of Unity releases
- Work closely with the development teams and producers to land planned work items successfully
- Deliver weekly releases to internal QA and to alpha/beta testing groups
- Help us make the alpha and beta programs a success by continually monitoring their health, reach and impact
- Work with repository maintainers to maintain and improve build stability and test coverage
- Oversee internal communications about the releases, to audiences that include non-technical to highly technical people, from executives to developers
Requirements
- Software development experience, ideally C++ or C#
- Experience managing releases or projects with complex dependencies and multiple contributors
- Experience delivering releases or projects on time-based release schedules
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Experience working with geographically diverse teams
- Ability to adapt to continuously changing situations
Bonus points
- An open mind and a willingness to question the status-quo
- An interest in computer games or software for creative applications
Who we are
Unity is the creator of the world’s most widely-used real-time 3D (RT3D) development platform, providing content creators around the world with the tools they need to build rich, interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. In fact, apps made with Unity reach 2.7 billion devices worldwide, and were installed more than 24 billion times in the last 12 months.
The global engineering team keeps Unity at the forefront of technology and — working alongside partners like Magic Leap, Google, Facebook, Oculus and Microsoft — ensures optimized support for the latest technology and platforms. Unity is powering the real-time revolution, expanding beyond games and breaking into other industries including automotive, film, architecture, engineering, construction and more.
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