Unity Technologies

Director of Product Management, Platforms

Unity Technologies$202K — $290K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product leadership experience in technical environments
  • Proficient in discussing technical topics like APIs and rendering pipelines
  • Skilled in managing relationships with external partners
  • Proven ability to navigate complex product dependencies for successful execution
  • Adaptable with a keen interest in emerging technologies, especially Generative AI
  • Exceptional communicator, capable of translating technical roadmaps into narratives

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive Unity's platform support roadmap
  • Lead by example as a hands-on 'player-coach' in strategy and technical details
  • Negotiate platform deals aligned with strategic commitments
  • Manage foundational dependencies across product and engineering teams
  • Collaborate with R&D to integrate AI advancements into product workflows
  • Advocate for Unity's platform vision at industry events and partner meetings
  • Mentor and lead a team of Technical PMs, promoting data-driven decisions

Benefits

  • 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
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Global Employee Assistance Program
  • Training and development programs
  • Volunteering and donation matching program
Full Job Description
The opportunity
As Director of Product for Platforms, you will lead the team responsible for how Unity runs on mobile, console, desktop, and web. This is a high-visibility leadership role that requires balancing long-term strategic bets with the rigorous technical execution needed to support a global hardware ecosystem.

You will lead a team of Technical PMs while remaining a hands-on practitioner by negotiating with global hardware partners, navigating deep internal dependencies, and ensuring our engine is prepared for the next generation of hardware and AI-assisted workflows.

What you'll be doing
  • Drive Platform Strategy: Own the roadmap for Unity's platform support. You will analyze market trends to identify emerging platforms and work with executive leadership to determine where Unity should invest for maximum creator impact.
  • Hands-on Execution: Lead by example as a "player-coach." You will personally author high-stakes strategy documents, dive into technical specifications, and stay close to the details of the engine's interaction with hardware.
  • Negotiate & Deliver: Work alongside Business Development to help negotiate platform deals. You will ensure our strategic commitments to hardware partners are technically sound and that we have the internal alignment to deliver them.
  • Manage Foundational Dependencies: Navigate complex trade-offs across Unity's product and engineering organizations. You will secure the high-level commitments and resources required to support entire hardware ecosystems, ensuring platform-level stability remains a priority.
  • Leverage AI: Partner with our R&D teams to define how AI-driven authoring and internal AI tooling will evolve the engine and the Product Management at Unity.
  • Platform Advocacy: Represent Unity's platform vision at industry conferences and provide transparent, strategic overviews to our most important global partners and platform holders.
  • Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a high-performing team of Technical PMs, fostering a culture of data-informed decision-making and technical excellence.

What we're looking for
  • Product Leadership at Scale: 8+ years proven experience leading product strategy and shipping complex, highly technical products (e.g., middleware, OS, developer tools, or large-scale integrations).
  • Technical Depth: Ability to engage with architects and engineers on topics like APIs, rendering pipelines, and hardware abstraction.
  • Strategic Diplomacy: Experience managing high-stakes relationships with external partners and the ability to influence internal stakeholders across a large organization.
  • Execution Excellence: A track record of untangling complex dependencies to ship products. You are comfortable moving from high-level strategy to the finer details when needed.
  • Adaptability & Curiosity: A strong interest in emerging technologies, particularly the intersection of Generative AI and content creation, and a drive to define how these technologies should be applied.
  • Exceptional Communication: Ability to distill a multi-year technical roadmap into a compelling narrative for partners, executives, and the developer community.

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

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

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*Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Gross pay salary

$202,800-$290,000 USD

About Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies is a software company that provides a platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content. The company's platform is used by game developers, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and other creators to build and distribute interactive experiences. Unity Technologies was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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2004

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