Product Design Manager - Metaverse

Meta; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering team at an innovative tech company focused on redefining human connection through augmented and virtual reality. As a product design leader, you'll mentor a talented group of prototypers, guiding them in creating cutting-edge tools and experiences. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of VR & MR products while working in a dynamic environment that values creativity and collaboration. If you're passionate about design and technology, this is your chance to make a significant impact on how people interact and connect in the digital world.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible work hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 4+ years in 3D real-time experiences and 2+ years in team leadership.
• Experience with prototyping tools and user experience design.

Responsibilities

• Lead a prototyping team to enhance product experience and efficiency.
• Create scalable architecture for collaborative prototypes.

Skills

3D real time experiences

Team management

Problem solving

Prototyping tools

User experience design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design or related field

Tools

Unity

Unreal Engine

WebGL

Job description

The Design at Meta community is pioneering technologies to bring people closer together, and our teams share in the responsibility of doing it at global scale. Our teams design and build Meta technologies—Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Workplace and Meta Quest—for billions of people around the world. At Reality Labs, we are focused on defining experiences in Augmented and Virtual Reality, finding new ways for people to connect and build communities and help people feel more present with each other even when we're apart. Meta’s work in augmented and virtual reality spans a number of breakthrough technologies and touches industries ranging from entertainment and gaming to education and beyond.

The Product Design Prototyping team at Metaverse organization is looking for an experienced, hands-on product design leader with people management skills and strong technical expertise. The ideal candidate is an experienced product design leader who flourishes working in an ambiguous technology space at the front end of VR & MR products and tools. This position will afford you the opportunity to explore multiple facets of supporting VR & MR prototypes, interfaces, inputs and tools.

You will become part of a well-established prototyping team and mentor prototypers across our overall team, including work for multiple devices and technologies in MR & VR, with a heavy focus on end user experience and internal prototyping tools.

As a manager, you will be expected to lead product design prototypers with different specializations from 3D software development, prototyping, game design, to interaction design, and guide them so that they are able to do the best work of their careers.

You will be expected to use your full range of product development experience and design skills to raise the quality of the outcome of your team.

Responsibilities

1. Identifies and frames up new projects and opportunities. Improves processes to help the organization be more effective.
2. Lead a prototyping team to demonstrate strong technical craft and level of detail in design, elevating the product experience with their work.
3. Support the team in developing solutions efficiently, showing mastery of iteration. Takes responsibility for all the dimensions of quality (level of detail, stability, and performance) for the prototypes created by the team.
4. Pro-actively nurture a team culture that cares and pays attention to the full product journey (concept, test, shipping, updating).
5. Lead the team in the creation of prototyping tools that enables others and able to generalize work into systems/components that other prototypes benefit from.
6. Lead the creation of scalable architecture for larger or collaborative prototypes that enables quick iteration for themselves and others.

Minimum Qualifications

1. 4+ years experience shipping, or incubating 3D real time experiences or tools.
2. 2+ years experience building, managing or leading teams of design prototypers, designers, technologists and/or front end engineers.
3. Experience with real-time 3D design or development (i.e., Unity, Unreal, WebGL, etc).
4. Proven experience to work effectively across organizations.
5. Proven problem solving experience and experience overcoming challenges.
6. Proven experience in creating or leading the creation of prototypes that intersect all qualities of the user experience (look and feel, Motion, level of detail, usability, and performance).
7. Experience working on interdisciplinary teams, working effectively across domains, skilled at brainstorming big ideas, has product design sense, works well in ambiguous technology areas, has an eye for detail, and is skilled at working on a variety of software systems and wearing a lot of hats.
8. Skilled at ramping on new tools and systems quickly, and can demonstrate a mastery (or past experience) of developing/supporting/using prototyping tools.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience with delivering 0-1 products from concept stages to launch.
2. At least 1 VR product in your portfolio.
3. Experience to thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
4. Experience driving a feature-driven development roadmap and prioritizing a backlog.

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Compensation

$165,000/year to $231,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action

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