Senior Technical Program Manager, Unity Studio Productions

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Job Summary

Job Description

The Unity Studio Productions team is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager in Japan to lead co-development efforts with market-leading Unity customer studios across APAC. This role involves coordinating with internal teams, ensuring successful game project production, and achieving desired customer outcomes. You will report on innovations, identify engine improvements, and inform the Unity Engine Product leadership team on roadmap decisions. While primarily supporting Japanese studios, collaboration with partners in Korea, Singapore, North America, and Europe is expected, shaping the future of games and interactive entertainment for millions globally.
Must have:
  • Leading end-to-end planning and execution of co-development projects
  • Managing day-to-day project operations
  • Supporting customer game productions
  • Driving continuous improvement by documenting production outcomes
  • Providing strategic input on regional trends and customer needs
  • Proven experience in project or program management
  • Exceptional leadership and team management skills
  • Solid understanding of game development workflows
  • Native in Japanese and business fluency in English or Korean
  • Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies
Good to have:
  • Experience in strategic planning or customer-facing proposal work

Job Details

The opportunity

The Unity Studio Productions team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager based in Japan to plan and coordinate efforts with internal teams responsible for co-developing alongside market-leading Unity customer studios across the APAC region.

In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to ensure the successful production of game projects and achieve desired customer outcomes. You will also be responsible for reporting to internal key project management leaders on the innovations that contributed to these outcomes, and identifying ways to potentially improve the engine as a result. Team efforts will play a key role in informing the Unity Engine Product leadership team on critical decisions regarding the Unity Engine roadmap, ensuring that production-verified innovations are surfaced for adoption within the Unity Engine.

While your primary focus will be on supporting customer studios in Japan, you may also collaborate with partners in Korea and Singapore, as well as cross-functional teams in North America and Europe — helping shape the future of games, platforms, and interactive entertainment experiences for millions of users worldwide.

What you'll be doing

  • Leading end-to-end planning and execution of co-development projects, from early-stage customer engagements through to delivery, in close collaboration with business development, engineering, and production teams
  • Managing day-to-day project operations, including scheduling, task tracking, risk mitigation, and cross-functional coordination with both internal and external stakeholders
  • Supporting customer game productions by aligning with technical art and engineering leads on resource planning, staffing, and milestone tracking
  • Driving continuous improvement by documenting production outcomes, reporting project health, and identifying opportunities to optimize workflows and enhance Unity Engine capabilities
  • Providing strategic input on regional trends and customer needs in Japan and APAC, contributing to internal planning and long-term business alignment

What we're looking for

  • Proven experience in project or program management within the gaming or related technology industries, with a strong track record of leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects
  • Exceptional leadership and team management skills, with experience in guiding diverse, global teams
  • A solid understanding of game development workflows, or the ability to work closely with developers and technical stakeholders to translate customer needs into actionable plans
  • Native in Japanese and business fluency in either English or Korean with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to present complex information clearly to executive staff and key stakeholders
  • Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies, with a continuous improvement mindset

You might also have

  • Experience in strategic planning or customer-facing proposal work is a plus

Additional information

  • Relocation support is not available for this position.
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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