Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager

Unity Unity · Enterprise · New York, NY · Business Development & Sales

This role is focused on identifying, evaluating, and structuring strategic partnerships and new business opportunities, including those at the intersection of AI, data, and the Unity runtime. The Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager will drive business growth by incubating new initiatives, conducting financial analysis and due diligence, and negotiating deals. While AI is mentioned as an area of focus for partnerships, the core responsibilities are in business development and strategic partnerships, not in building or researching AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify, research, and validate new partnership and investment opportunities to scale our business.
  2. Drive the incubation and launch of new partnership-driven programs across key business verticals like AI, Platforms, Industry, and Commerce.
  3. Conduct financial analysis and due diligence to build data-driven business cases for or against new ventures and partnership opportunities.
  4. Structure commercial deal terms, work with cross-functional teams to define technical scope, and negotiate partner contracts.

Skills

Required

  • Experience in strategic partnerships, management consulting, corporate strategy, or related roles at software or platform companies.
  • Demonstrated ability to research and vet new business opportunities, and quickly establish subject matter expertise.
  • Proven track record of identifying, sizing, and forming strategic recommendations for new growth opportunities, or successfully incubating and scaling new business lines/products within a large organization.
  • Strong data and commercial acumen, with experience in financial modeling, developing business models, evaluating pricing strategies, or designing KPIs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with and technical fluency in game development tech, AI, or robotics preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • core focus is scaling new initiatives or partnerships through rigorous due diligence, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration
  • rigorous due diligence
  • analysis
  • cross-functional collaboration