We’re looking for a highly skilled and self-motivated production leader to continue to mature communication and cross-org collaboration for our Platforms group and beyond. In this role, you will work cross-functionally with engineering leadership, product management, and producers from other parts of the organization, helping to improve transparency, quality, and predictability in the development process while preserving Unity’s unique culture.

You will lead a team of Technical Producers, each embedded with one of the Platforms teams, to mature production practices throughout Platforms and paint a clear picture of strategy, goals, and progress to drive alignment within Platforms as well as our strategic partners and the rest of the organization. As the Platforms teams are broadly distributed through North America, Europe, and beyond, some international travel is to be expected.

As the ideal candidate, you ride the line between Helper and Leader, acting as a force multiplier for development teams. You are relationship-driven, and comfortable wearing multiple hats: connector, coach, reporter, translator, firefighter. You have a light-touch project management style, and a commitment to fostering a culture of individual empowerment, ownership, and trust. Your communication skills are impeccable, and you have an understanding of and appreciation for working across different cultures.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support, and grow a team of technical producers as the discipline of Production continues to mature within R&D
• Collaborate with select strategic platform partners, aligning on priorities and building and maintaining a healthy relationship
• Use fluency in common software production methodologies and deep empathy for developers to improve teams’ ability to plan and deliver software without hampering progress or autonomy of developers
• Facilitate collaboration with other teams and producers where more complex projects/initiatives require higher level coordination
• Circulate regular updates to stakeholders across the company, providing a concise high-level view into teams’ plans and progress against goals.
• Collaborate with producers in other parts of the organization to support healthy platform development throughout Unity
• Work closely with R&D support teams such as Release Management, Core Developer Services, etc. to help address problems of scale as Unity R&D continues to grow

Requirements

• Extensive experience in software production / program management, working cross functionally within an engineering organization
• A degree in business, project management, or a technical management field, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience managing and mentoring producers / program managers directly
• Experience working on enterprise-scale software
• Familiarity with game development technologies across multiple platforms
• Detail-oriented, organized and able to track complex requirements with many moving pieces
• Experience guiding teams through a variety of project management styles - and a deep understanding about the strengths and shortcomings of different methodologies
• Ability to manage change in an organization, working with the current of embedded habits
• Ability to travel to remote teams occasionally

Bonus Points

• PMO (Program Management Office) experience
• Software engineering
• Game development (Unity engine or otherwise)
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Experience navigating strategic partnerships
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral, to speak to a broad variety of internal and external stakeholders

About Unity Technologies

Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.  

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