The opportunity

As a Total Rewards Partner, you are responsible for advising senior functional leaders on the design, application, and delivery of Unity’s compensation and headcount planning programs. You’ll partner directly with executive leaders and their staff as a member of the Talent Leadership Trio (alongside Talent Strategy and Recruiting Partners), sharing accountability for the function’s overall talent strategy. You will be trusted to operate with a high degree of autonomy and judgment, leveraging centralized rewards experts as needed, while applying your knowledge of advanced compensation, market insights, and business acumen to ensure Unity’s programs are competitive, equitable, and aligned with functional priorities.

What you'll be doing

• Serve as the compensation and headcount planning advisor to executive functional leaders and staff, providing guidance on pay programs, workforce investments, and talent strategy in close partnership with Talent Strategy and Recruiting Partners
• Participate in functional leadership meetings (staff, offsites, QBRs) as an embedded member of the Talent Leadership Trio
• Advise on compensation matters for hires, promotions, retention, reorganizations, and business transformations up to and including SVP, ensuring alignment to Unity’s philosophy and governance
• Interpret and apply job architecture, salary ranges, equity refresh frameworks, and recognition programs in a business-relevant way, leveraging centralized Compensation and Equity teams where deeper expertise is required
• Monitor market trends, pay practices, promotion velocity, and recognition patterns; surface risks and recommend course corrections to function and Total Rewards leadership
• Facilitate and administer compensation cycles and off-cycle programs, bringing business context to investment decisions and calibration discussions
• Provide structured feedback to centralized Compensation and Benefits teams on program effectiveness, edge cases, and evolving business needs
• Utilize the Compensation Analyst – Programs & Total Rewards Enablement for complex, project-based analyses and ensure efficient use of support resources
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Unity’s Total Rewards programs and relevant market developments through ongoing partnership with centralized teams

What we're looking for

• Hands-on experience in compensation, rewards, or total rewards consulting, preferably in a technology or high-growth environment
• Demonstrated ability to advise business leaders on compensation strategy, pay decisions, and market trends
• Familiarity with market pricing, incentive/bonus plan administration, or equity programs; ability to learn and scale quickly into advanced areas as needed
• Strong analytical, spreadsheets, and communication skills; experience with Workday, Pave or similar systems preferred

Additional information

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

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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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