Senior Technical Product Manager, Core Engine
About this role
The opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager with extensive prior experience in a hands-on game development role to join our Engine Product team. You will play a pivotal role in defining product requirements with technical input on customer need, value, measurability, as well as the ability to use and demonstrate product in a hands-on fashion.
In this high-impact technical role, you will define and execute the roadmap of Unity Engine’s core technology; including scripting and CoreCLR, compilation, burst and entities. You will define product strategy with a technical point of view grounded in a direct understanding of customer requirements while ensuring the product vision aligns with business priorities, user needs, and technical feasibility.
What you'll be doing
Define and own a product vision, strategy, and roadmap that is informed by technical product expertise, customer feedback from Unity Studio Productions and Customer Success organizations, Production Verification, market research, user feedback, and competitive analysis
Cultivate strong relationships with Engineering counterparts to lead product areas hand-in-hand. You will drive feature delivery across disparate teams, clearing roadblocks and aligning priorities.
Partner with stakeholders (e.g. Engineering, Quality, Design, Documentation, Program Management) to identify business goals, user needs, and technical requirements
Prioritize product features and improvements based on a mix of data and user feedback from key external partners and our wider development community.
Collaborate with other product team members to ensure solid cross-product integration and minimization of redundant feature code
Facilitate customer feedback loops to refine and improve the product by iteratively adding customer value
Hands-on tests and demos to understand requirements and proposed solutions, verify deliveries, and showcase delivered features to customers, users, and partners
Requirements
- Extensive experience with Unity, C#, Entities, Burst and Data oriented design (or similar systems within another engine), with a solid understanding of how developers integrate these technologies.
- Solid understanding of computer architecture, memory & cache behavior
- Prior experience in video game development working with Unity, Unreal, or proprietary game engines
- Strong product management experience, having lead technical product delivery of high impact features or projects, along with strong data and research skills
- Exceptional communication skills, with a proven track record of effectively simplifying and articulating complex technical concepts to a wide range of audiences, from engineers to senior executives.
- Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.
- Strong skills in roadmap planning, feature prioritization, and stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration capabilities to bring teams together as we drive towards common goals and priorities
- You might also have
- Experience in systems programming, with expertise in C++
- Familiarity with SIMD programming
- Storytelling and visual presentation abilities to distill sophisticated topics into clear and concise communications
- Willingness to travel (up to 25% at peak times)
- Additional information
- Relocation support is not available for this position
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position