Product Designer, Human Interface

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 201,000 - 278,000; Full time

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Job summary

Meta is seeking a Product Designer for the Human Interface domain in New York. The role drives design vision across a portfolio, leading large-scale projects and shaping product direction with executive partners.

You will craft experiences that balance simplicity with high craft, contributing to cross-platform consistency and system-level design. You will articulate strategy, mentor designers, and collaborate with product, engineering, research, and content teams to align priorities around a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, CS, or related field.
• 8+ years designing software with focus on UX, interaction, and visual design.
• Proven ability to leverage research and data to set product strategy.
• Demonstrated strategic product thinking at the portfolio level with executive communication.
• Deep expertise in prototyping tools and evaluating design craft.

Responsibilities

• Defines and drives the design vision across a product portfolio or organization, setting the bar for quality and coherence at scale.
• Leads and delivers design projects across multiple product areas with ambiguity and novel approaches.
• Translate company strategy into design direction, influencing roadmaps and shaping product direction at executive level.
• Designs experiences that set new standards for simplicity, elegance, and usability across platforms.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

At Meta, we're shaping innovative experiences in service of giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our multidisciplinary design teams are creating new ways to help people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Together, we are committed to building innovative technologies — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Meta Quest and more — to serve billions of people around the globe.As a product designer at Meta, you'll have the opportunity to play a central role in the way we build technologies — ensuring they are valuable, easy to use and of the highest level of craft and execution. You'll be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next great product innovation to tweaking pixels right before launch. We'll expect you to utilize your full range of product design, interaction design and visual design skills, while contributing to high-level strategic decisions with product and executive partners.Join a broad group of thinkers and do some of the most meaningful work of your career.This posting represents different full-time roles across the Meta company.

Product Designer, Human Interface Responsibilities:

• Defines and drives the design vision across a product portfolio or organization, setting the bar for quality, coherence, and innovation at scale.
• Leads and delivers design projects of significant organizational scope and ambiguity, often spanning multiple product areas or requiring novel approaches with no established playbook.
• Translate company-level strategy into design direction, influencing roadmaps and shaping the future of Meta products at an executive level.
• Design and champion experiences that set new standards for simplicity, elegance, and usability across our platforms, serving as a reference point for the broader design organization.
• Define, evolve, and unify visual and interaction systems that scale across products and platforms.
• Serve as a recognized design expert across multiple product and business areas, maintaining deep awareness of industry trends and competitive landscape to inform strategic decisions and solve the organization's most complex design challenges.
• Elevate the design practice across the organization through active mentorship, sponsorship, and the development of frameworks that raise the quality and impact of the broader design team.
• Drive executive-level partnerships with product, engineering, research, and content strategy leadership, influencing org-wide priorities and aligning cross-functional teams around a shared user experience vision.
• Represent design strategy and rationale to senior leadership and cross-functional executives, shaping organizational alignment on product direction.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field
• 8+ years designing software products with a focus on user experience, interaction, and visual design that meet business objectives
• Proven ability to leverage research and data to set product strategy and influence organizational direction
• Demonstrated strategic product thinking at the portfolio or organizational level, with the ability to communicate a compelling vision to executive audiences
• Deep expertise in prototyping tools and the ability to evaluate and advance design craft across fidelity levels

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recognized industry or organizational leadership in defining the design direction for virtual, augmented, mixed reality, and emerging technology products at scale
• Demonstrated ability to shape cross-functional strategy and influence senior stakeholders across User Research, Engineering, and Product Management to drive alignment on novel, ambiguous product spaces
• Expert-level prototyping and systems thinking for 3D interactions and spatial interfaces, with the ability to advance tooling and methodology for the broader team
• Pioneering contributions to the design of novel user inputs (hand tracking, eye tracking, spatial audio, etc.), including defining best practices and patterns adopted across products
• Experience setting the strategic design direction for developer and/or creator platforms, with demonstrated impact on ecosystem growth, scalability, and long-term platform health
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [e-mail].

$201,000/year to $278,000/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.