About the Role
This role owns how Unity runs across the XR ecosystem, setting the platform roadmap, negotiating with global hardware partners, and collaborating with engineering and R&D to maintain Unity's XR capabilities. It's a high-visibility position that will shape what millions of creators can build, with short-term goals of stabilizing and expanding XR platform support, building partner relationships, and closing dependency gaps, and long-term goals of positioning Unity as the go-to engine for next-gen XR and AI-assisted creation.
Responsibilities
- Own the XR platform roadmap, analyzing market trends, identifying emerging platforms, and determining Unity's investment areas for maximum creator impact.
- Negotiate with global hardware partners and manage internal dependencies to ensure platform-level stability.
- Author strategy documents and stay informed on the technical details of Unity's interaction with XR hardware.
- Partner with R&D to influence the evolution of AI-driven authoring, internal tooling, and engine support for XR platforms.
- Represent Unity's platform vision externally at industry conferences and in strategic overviews for partners and customers.
Requirements
- Proven track record shipping complex, technical products such as middleware, OS, developer tools, or large-scale platform integrations.
- Experience managing external partner relationships and influencing internal stakeholders across a large organization.
- Technical fluency in APIs, rendering pipelines, and hardware abstraction, with the ability to engage deeply with architects and engineers.
- Ability to resolve complex cross-functional dependencies and drive execution from strategy to product launch.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating technical roadmaps into compelling narratives for diverse audiences.
Skills
- Unity
- XR
- APIs
- Rendering pipelines
- Hardware abstraction
- AI tools
- Developer advocacy
- Conference speaking
- Partner-facing platform evangelism
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $153,400 - $203,600
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 and support
- Employee Resource Groups
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Training and development programs
- Volunteering and donation matching program
About the Company
- 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.
- At Unity, we're committed to creating a workplace that fosters collaboration and teamwork that allows you to harness your unique skills.
- Join us in creating industry tools to help creators of all levels bring their projects to reality.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 you have a disability that means 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.
