Staff Technical Product Manager

Unity Technologies; Illinois; On-site; USD 200,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock ownership

Retirement plans

Vacation days

ERGs

Wellbeing programs

Volunteer program

Job summary

Unity seeks a Staff Technical Product Manager to drive the mobile platform roadmap, collaborating with customers and platform PMs to shape features and validate developments across devices. You will translate technical roadmaps for executives and coordinate across platform teams to align dependencies and priorities.

The role requires deep mobile platform fluency, strong leadership influence, and excellent technical communication to convert user feedback into strategic goals while guiding

Qualifications

• Technical product management experience shipping complex developer tools or OS-level products, or a strong engineering or game development background in combination.
• Deep mobile platform fluency, including a solid understanding of software development lifecycles, APIs, and hardware abstraction.
• A proven track record of influencing senior leadership, navigating large organizational dependencies, and managing complex stakeholder relationships.
• Strong technical communication skills and the ability to convert customer feedback into clear goals for non-technical collaborators.
• Strong analytical abilities and data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Own the mobile platform roadmap, identifying where Unity must invest so developers can ship high-quality, high-performing games across the full range of mobile hardware.
• Work closely with customers and platform PMs to discover new user needs, define feature requirements, and validate features in development.
• Negotiate and align with platform partners to keep Unity ahead of platform shifts and new device categories.
• Translate highly technical roadmaps into strategic narratives for executive and external audiences, and serve as connective tissue across Unity's platform teams so cross-team concerns are surfaced, aligned on, and planned appropriately.

Skills

Technical product management

Mobile platform

Stakeholder management

Technical communication

Data analysis

Job description

As a Staff Technical Product Manager at Unity, you will be part of the platform product management team with a focus on the systems and capabilities that bring Unity's features to the mobile ecosystem, ensuring developers get a seamless, high-quality experience on every device they ship to. This is a senior role driving the mobile platform roadmap across performance optimization, cross-platform expansion, and developer tooling. You'll be embedded alongside our engineering teams, gathering detailed data and feedback to help shape our roadmaps and providing insight into customer use, demand for shipped features, features in development, and future areas of growth.

What you’ll be doing

• Own the mobile platform roadmap, identifying where Unity must invest so developers can ship high-quality, high-performing games across the full range of mobile hardware.

• Work closely with customers and platform PMs to discover new user needs, define feature requirements, and validate features in development.

• Negotiate and align with platform partners to keep Unity ahead of platform shifts and new device categories.

• Translate highly technical roadmaps into strategic narratives for executive and external audiences, and serve as connective tissue across Unity's platform teams so cross-team concerns are surfaced, aligned on, and planned appropriately.

What we’re looking for

• Technical product management experience shipping complex developer tools or OS-level products, or a strong engineering or game development background in combination.

• Deep mobile platform fluency, including a solid understanding of software development lifecycles, APIs, and hardware abstraction.

• A proven track record of influencing senior leadership, navigating large organizational dependencies, and managing complex stakeholder relationships.

• Strong technical communication skills and the ability to convert customer feedback and requests into hidden needs and deeper goals, while articulating sophisticated concepts concisely for non-technical collaborators.

• Strong analytical abilities and experience working with data analysis tools, and demonstrated user empathy and data-driven decision-making.

You might also have (optional)

• Hands-on experience shipping a game or interactive application using Unity, or other real-time 3D development tools.

• Experience with performance profiling and optimization on mobile hardware.

Base Salary Range: We determine the base salary range for this role based on your primary work location:

Zone A: $157,800 - $236,800 USD gross

Zone B: $178,300 - $267,500 USD gross

Zone C: $200,400 - $300,600 USD gross

This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate's relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

Benefits

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.

Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.

While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally:

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs
• Office food snacks
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
• Employee Resource Groups
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Training and development programs
• Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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