Senior Sales Specialist - Robotics

Unity Unity · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Business Development & Sales

Senior Sales Specialist for Unity's robotics simulation technology, focusing on enterprise clients in manufacturing, logistics, and autonomous systems. The role involves identifying opportunities, building relationships, developing account strategies, and closing complex deals. Requires a strong track record in enterprise sales, value-based selling, and understanding of industrial automation drivers. Familiarity with robotics simulation concepts and related ecosystems is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and create new opportunity engagements that deliver the highest value for robotics customers — aligning Unity's strengths with customer needs to build differentiated, outcome-based solutions that address real operational challenges across logistics, warehousing, and manufacturing.
  2. Build relationships and gain trusted advisor status with key stakeholders and senior decision makers at target accounts — developing executive-level engagement strategies that influence the buying process and accelerate deals from first conversation to close.
  3. Plan, develop, and execute account sales strategies to grow revenue and gain market share — mapping customer organisational structures, identifying expansion signals, and maintaining pipeline and opportunity tracking.
  4. Work collaboratively with Sales, Solutions Engineers, Strategic Partnerships, and Product teams to solve customer problems, identify new opportunities, and ensure every engagement is backed by the right technical and commercial resources.
  5. Represent Unity across the robotics and industrial automation ecosystem — cultivating relationships with robot OEMs, system integrators, and automation ISVs, and positioning Unity as the simulation platform of choice at key industry events.

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise sales experience
  • Value-based selling
  • Account strategy development
  • Relationship building
  • Pipeline management
  • Forecasting
  • Understanding of industrial automation drivers

Nice to have

  • Robotics simulation concepts
  • ROS/ROS 2
  • Sensor simulation
  • Synthetic data generation
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA Omniverse/Isaac Sim, Siemens, PTC, ANSYS, or Rockwell Automation
  • Hands-on familiarity with Unity or other real-time 3D platforms
  • Curiosity about robotics, autonomous systems, and AI

What the JD emphasized

  • track record of closing complex, high-value enterprise deals
  • demonstrated ability to navigate engineering decision makers and C-suite stakeholders
  • Proven commercial depth in value-based selling
  • Experience selling into logistics, warehousing, or manufacturing environments
  • Demonstrated ability to succeed in a specialist sales model
  • established network within manufacturing, logistics, or industrial automation organisations