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Senior Technical Program Manager
2 years ago
Unity is looking for a highly skilled and self-motivated Senior Technical Program Manager to facilitate operations and communications between our Developer Services teams and customers. In this role, you will work across multiple teams in pursuit of quality, excellence, improving and adapting development processes to enhance development agility and product delivery, while opening doors to collaboration with the rest of the company.
As the ideal candidate, you are comfortable wearing multiple hats: connector, mentor, reporter, translator, diplomate, firefighter. You ride the line between Helper and Leader, acting as a force multiplier for the teams you are embedded with. You have a light-touch project management style, and a dedication to encouraging a culture of individual empowerment, ownership, and trust. Your communication skills are outstanding, and you have an understanding of and appreciation for working across different cultures. You have the passion and drive to provide the best quality product and services to our customers.
While the majority of your daily collaborators are located in Shanghai, some international travel is to be encouraged.
What you’ll be doing
- Act as a collaborative force to help technical writers and development teams work together fluently, embracing divergent priorities, processes, and cultures
- Work with the Developer Services leadership team to build a clear roadmap and supervise internal projects
- Circulate regular status updates to stakeholders, providing a concise high-level view into the team’s health and progress against goals, understand and drive risk and mitigation planning
- Provide agile training, mentor and mentorship
What we’re looking for
- Experience in software production / project management, working cross functionally within an engineering organization or equivalent related experience
- Is certified an Agile coach with either ScrumAlliance, SAFe or any other recognized provider
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral, to speak to a broad audience as well as being an enthusiastic and phenomenal teammate!
- Ability to gracefully manage change in an organization, working with the current of embedded habits rather than fighting against it
- Demonstrate a customer-focused, proactive, curious mentality. Not afraid to ask questions, and be willing to dig for your own answers as well
- Self-driven and a great team-player
You might also have
- Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- Enterprise-scale software development
- Solid understanding of JIRA or other similar software
- A true passion for, and enjoyment of spatial computing. The entire team is united in our shared interest in the future of human-computer interaction and how XR can help
- Game development (Unity engine or otherwise)
Life at Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) 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 1,800+ 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 five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
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