Senior Unity Manager

The opportunity

The ideal candidate will be bringing strong Game development experience, leadership skills, deep technical expertise in the Unity Engine ecosystem, and a strategic mindset to build and scale high-impact gaming systems.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and scale our gaming organization: manage multiple teams and titles (game dev, tools, ops) and the managers who lead them.
• Define and execute the vision and roadmap for our games portfolio: leveraging Unity as the core engine/platform, and ensuring high‐quality graphics, performant code, and engaging player experiences.
• Oversee client analytics and configuration infrastructure: build and maintain reliable, scalable systems that feed game design, live-ops, user-engagement, monetization, and business decisions.
• Collaborate with machine learning and data-science teams: work with your teams to design, deploy and operate models (player behavior prediction, personalization, content generation, monetisation optimisation).
• Champion internal tooling and operational frameworks: from build/deploy workflows to live-ops dashboards, monitoring, dev-productivity tooling and analytics platforms, ensuring the organization runs efficiently at scale.
• Foster cross‐functional collaboration: partner with product, design, art, engineering, operations, marketing and business teams to align on goals, metrics, and delivery.
• Mentor and grow your leadership team: hire, develop and retain high‐performing managers and their teams; ensure strong culture, clarity of roles, and accountability.
• Set and monitor KPIs: game performance, live-ops metrics, user acquisition/retention/monetization, platform stability, tooling adoption, developer productivity, and team growth.
• Stay abreast of industry trends: graphic rendering / real-time 3D, Unity evolutions, ML/AI in games, data-driven live multiplayer operations, and incorporate those into strategy.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years in game development, with a strong track record of shipping titles using Unity and leading engineering/dev teams.
• Experience as a team lead then a leader of managers and ICs (i.e., you’ve grown engineers → leads → you now lead leads).
• Deep technical understanding of Unity (C#, real‐time 3D graphics pipelines, performance optimisation, mobile ecosystem).
• Significant experience working with and operating data pipelines / analytics platforms that support game operations, user-behavior tracking, live-ops, monetisation.
• Proven ability to design/drive internal tooling and operational frameworks (dev-tools, build & deploy, live-ops, monitoring/observability).
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills: you’re comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders, translating technical strategy for non-technical audiences, and driving organizational change.
• Strong strategic, analytical and product mindset: you can assess market/competitive dynamics, identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, and execute.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, agile environment; ability to lead teams through ambiguity and scale.

You might also have

• Experience with backend services for multiplayer/live games, cloud infrastructure, data-warehouse technologies (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery), real-time analytics, A/B testing frameworks.
• Deep understanding and experience working with machine learning / data science in a gaming or interactive context (e.g., player modeling, recommendation, personalization, content generation).

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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