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Senior Research Program Manager, Unity Labs
3 years ago
We are looking for a Senior Research Program Manager to join Unity Labs, reporting directly to the Head of Academia Research Collaboration. This role closely collaborates with engineering leadership, product marketing, program management, researchers, and engineers, as well as external partners across organizations in industry and academia. Does it sound exciting?
To be successful, you will be clearly communicating your work to all partners and ensuring the big picture stays in focus while delving into the details on specific issues. You are adaptable and resilient, eager to attack unfamiliar problems with curiosity and resourcefulness, self-motivated and demonstrate creative and critical thinking capabilities to help the team be more efficient.
You are also an effective communicator, passionate about fundamental research, comfortable with ambiguous environments, can adapt quickly, bring people together, and focus squarely in advancing the science forward.
What you'll be doing
- Collaborate cross-functionally with scientists and engineers across various research domains from AI to ML to XR.
- Drive the development of tools and processes to provide ongoing tracking of progress & key milestones on research projects
- Increase awareness of research programs across Unity and with external partners, as well as map dependencies and relationships between research and teams
- Help engineering teams with planning, prioritization and risk management of ongoing research projects with Universities.
- Proactively identify technical, legal, procedural, logistical, and communication issues and drive creative solutions to fix them and manage risk
What we're looking for
- Proven track record of building and scaling programs
- Experience in communication and messaging to a large organization
- Experience working directly with technical scientists, engineers, and management
- Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
- Experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery
You might also have
- Practical knowledge and experience with Unity’s RT3D engine
- Gaming and/or Tech background
- Familiarity with creating budgets and financial spreadsheets.ve on the team
Life at Unity
Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
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