Senior Business Operations Manager

Unity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Senior Business Operations Manager to enhance our P&T Business Operations team. This role involves driving strategic initiatives, conducting complex analyses, and collaborating with executive leaders. Candidates should excel in project management, possess strong analytical skills, and be adept in tools like SQL and Excel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in management consulting, investment banking, or related fields.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration and operational excellence.
• Ability to translate complex analyses into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to drive high-impact business initiatives.
• Conduct quantitative analyses to inform strategic decisions.
• Design dashboards to track KPIs and support executive reporting.

Skills

SQL queries

Financial modeling

Project management

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Looker

BigQuery

Job description

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The opportunity

At Unity Technologies, we power the world’s most innovative games and real-time 3D experiences. Our P&T Business Operations team plays a critical role in driving strategic initiatives, optimizing cross-functional processes, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive Senior Business Operations Manager to partner with senior leaders, tackle complex business challenges, and scale our operations.

The opportunity

At Unity Technologies, we power the world’s most innovative games and real-time 3D experiences. Our P&T Business Operations team plays a critical role in driving strategic initiatives, optimizing cross-functional processes, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive Senior Business Operations Manager to partner with senior leaders, tackle complex business challenges, and scale our operations.

What You'll Be Doing

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including FP&A, Product Management, Product Services, Product Operations, Revenue, and M&A—to plan and execute high-impact business initiatives (e.g., technology migrations, new business-model development).
• Partner with senior leaders to identify opportunities, define project scope, and ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables.
• Conduct quantitative analyses (financial modeling, forecasting, scenario analysis) to inform key business decisions.
• Proactively monitor business-critical metrics, identify anomalies or inefficiencies, and recommend corrective actions to drive performance.
• Define, document, and continuously improve scalable processes that span multiple functions—ensuring consistency, transparency, and efficiency.
• Lead process-mapping exercises, develop standard operating procedures, and roll out best practices to drive operational excellence.
• Design, build, and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and ad hoc reports (using Looker and BigQuery) to track KPIs, highlight trends, and support executive-level reporting.
• Ensure data integrity by implementing validation checks and collaborating with data engineering teams to reconcile discrepancies.
• Act as a trusted advisor, translating complex analyses into clear, actionable recommendations for finance, product, marketing, and sales stakeholders.
• Drive projects end-to-end—facilitating meetings, managing timelines, supporting organizational planning and rhythm of business, and “rolling up your sleeves” to ensure tasks are completed on time and with high quality.
  
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, including financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
• Hands-on experience writing SQL queries, working with BigQuery datasets, and creating interactive visualizations in Looker.
• Demonstrated ability to take a quantitative approach to problem-solving—balancing speed with accuracy to avoid “analysis paralysis.”
• Proven track record of designing and driving scalable operational processes across multiple functions and supporting strategic/operational planning, workforce planning, performance management, and organizational governance.
• Zealous ownership mentality: willing to dig into details, identify root causes, and implement solutions quickly.
• Comfortable wearing multiple hats (finance, product, marketing, sales) and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Excellent project management skills—managing priorities, timelines, and deliverables in a dynamic environment.
• 5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, FinOps, FP&A, or a related field.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to distill complex analyses into concise presentations or executive summaries.
  
  
  

You might also have

• Hands-on experience in mobile in-app advertising or ad tech.
• Previous business operations role at a high-growth startup, scaling processes in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with budgeting and forecasting tools beyond Excel
• Experience working closely with engineering or data teams to automate and streamline workflows.
  
  
  

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.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Gross pay salary

$125,000—$155,000 USD

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Software Development

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