Product Design Manager - Metaverse

Facebook; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in tech is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead a prototyping team focused on Augmented and Virtual Reality. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in 3D design and managing teams, contributing to innovative projects that enhance user experiences across various platforms.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity options

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in 3D real-time experiences.
• 2+ years managing design prototyping teams.
• Experience with interdisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to create and iterate on 3D prototypes.
• Improve processes for effective project delivery.
• Nurture a caring team culture focused on the product journey.

Skills

3D real-time experiences

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

UI/Interaction development

Tools

Unity

Unreal

WebGL

Job description

**Summary:**

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.

**Required Skills:**

Product Design Manager - Metaverse 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:**

Minimum Qualifications:

7. 4+ years experience shipping, or incubating 3D real time experiences or tools

8. 2+ years experience building, managing or leading teams of design prototypers, designers, technologists and/or front end engineers

9. Experience with real-time 3D design or development (i.e., Unity, Unreal, WebGL, etc)

10. Proven experience to work effectively across organizations

11. Proven problem solving experience and experience overcoming challenges

12. 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)

13. UI/Interaction development experience in a 3D product

14. 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.

15. 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:**

Preferred Qualifications:

16. Experience with delivering 0-1 products from concept stages to launch

17. At least 1 VR product in your portfolio

18. Experience to thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments

19. Game or interaction development experience across multiple surfaces (console, mobile, PC, VR, AR)

20. Experience driving a feature-driven development roadmap and prioritizing a backlog

**Public Compensation:**

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

**Industry:** Internet

**Equal Opportunity:**

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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