We’re looking for a Senior Business Operations Partner to help amplify the VP R&D and the R&D Engineering Staff. As the Business Operations Partner of the VP R&D, you’ll be accountable to create and improve programs and processes to continually level-up and scale the R&D organization which has a size of 700.

You are communicating with the R&D Leadership Team (LT) members, and able to make effective decisions and execute on with the VP R&D to allow better coverage for the growing demands of the R&D organization. You have proven executive communication skills, as well as proficiency at facilitating, documenting and following up on executive meetings, decisions and strategic follow up.

Responsibilities:

• Partner and support our VP R&D organization for unit wide communications, goal-setting/OKR’s, and process improvement strategy in coordination with yearly OpEx (dollars & headcount) budgeting and planning activities with ongoing tracking of performance against budget, in partnership with R&D Finance and HR partners.
• Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and department leaders by performing an array of administrative and operational tasks including generating correspondence and planning documentation.
• Support decision making through research, analysis of information, and clear presentation of considerations.
• Represent a singular thread to align leadership teams to ensure communication, projects, and action items running through Unity R&D are executed in togetherness, ultimately serving as a “force-multiplier” among Unity's leadership.
• Drive and expedite conversations of the decision-making process with respect to business and engineering/development inquiries and help structure and develop action plans to address them and assist with the preparation and dissemination of strategic communication.
• Partner with HR in support of people development activities including the yearly engagement survey, onboarding, manager development, and resource utilization.
• Facilitate quarterly and annual planning of R&D development and delivery, business and product strategy for the R&D group, creating unit wide dashboards in collaboration with the head of production, and running quarterly business reviews.
• Facilitate the VP R&D in the development of content for all hands, staff meetings, Board of Directors briefings, Press releases, Customer engagements materials.
• Unity’s R&D Staff is made up of Unity’s various Engineering, Production and QA leaders. You’ll facilitate weekly meetings, all-hands and off-sites to improve our skills and the way we work together.

Requirements

• Experience in business, operations, or program/project management roles.
• Exceptionally organized and experienced in planning and leading strategic initiatives along with communicating cross-functionally among Leadership Team members, business units, departments, groups, and teams.
• Authentic executive presence and comfortable working with senior leaders with emotional intelligence, empathy, and ability to establish trusting and strong relationships.
• Previous experience with product development or supporting product development organizations is strongly desired.

Who we are

Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world. Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize, so that they can find success with their creations.

The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Oculus, Autodesk, Microsoft and many more, to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Made with Unity experiences reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 34 billion times in the last 12 months. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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