Performance & Development Lead (Fractional)
About the role
This role is about performance development, not performance management. Unity's approach to performance is built on genuine ownership and accountability, not a traditional annual review cycle — but the system itself isn't the point. The point is helping people actually grow into what that ownership requires: sharper judgement, stronger client and commercial instincts, real skill in giving and using feedback, and the behaviours that take someone from new joiner to trusted senior contributor.
This role exists to build that growth, not to run the administrative mechanics of reviews and calibration. It's about coaching Partners and Functional Leaders to develop their people well, giving every new joiner a genuine development runway from day one, and building the skills, frameworks and programmes that help people grow faster and more deliberately than they would simply by doing the job. Classic L&D sits inside this, but the mandate is bigger: making sure people are developing, not just being assessed.
What you'll own
Feedback and check-in skills: build the skills behind how Unity gives and receives feedback — people requesting feedback proactively, managers giving sharp and timely feedback, and check-in conversations that ar
