UX Research Manager, Reality Labs

Facebook; New York (NY); On-site; USD 163,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Facebook Reality Labs is seeking an experienced UX Research Manager to lead a team that drives user-centric research for innovative AR products. This leadership role requires a blend of strategic vision, strong communication skills, and a deep understanding of the product development lifecycle, ensuring user needs are translated into actionable design insights.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hardware and software UX experience.
• 2+ years people management experience.
• Experience in leading research teams and developing research plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of UX researchers to define strategy for wearable devices.
• Resource allocation and focus on high-priority research.
• Communicate findings to stakeholders effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data Analysis

UX Research

Education

MS in HCI, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Human Factors, or Anthropology

PhD in HCI, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Human Factors, or Anthropology

Job description

**Summary:**

At Facebook Facebook Reality Labs, we are inventing the future. We are looking for an experienced UX research leader with demonstrated leadership, communication, and partnership skills to deliver amazing products and experiences for consumers. As a Research Manager in the Facebook Reality Labs organization, you will lead a team of UX researchers. It's not enough to answer interesting questions about user behavior; our team focuses on impact. You will lead a team of world-class researchers across a key product vertical, and across multiple research disciplines.You and your team will define the user needs that our AR devices will support and then operationalize these needs into use cases and partner with designers and developers to create valuable, innovative software experiences. You must become a trusted, strategic partner to product stakeholders by communicating and demonstrating the value of user research, and by delivering insights that lead to measurable business value. You must be a data expert, but also know when to trust your gut. You must contribute to design and strategic discussions and be an overall expert in the relationship between research, design, marketing and product. You must build close relationships with other research teams at Facebook to ensure a cohesive and cross-functional vision for Research at Facebook.

**Required Skills:**

UX Research Manager, Reality Labs Responsibilities:

1. Lead the team to define clear strategy and vision across Wearable devices

2. Identify and prioritize short-term and long-term research that delivers impact

3. Resource Allocation - ensure we are always focusing on the highest priority things, focusing both on the short term needs as well as looking ahead to the next big challenge

4. Hiring, developing, and retaining talent

5. Passionate about build and scaling a 0-1 product and hold the team accountable to ship high-quality products

6. Thrive in supporting quantitative and qualitative research to solve ambiguous problems

7. Influence product strategy and roadmapping through your team’s insights and frameworks

8. Build and grow close relationships between your team and partner teams (UX design, software engineering, etc.) to create a full picture of end users’ experience

9. Effectively communicate findings & recommendations to engineering & leadership stakeholders

**Minimum Qualifications:**

Minimum Qualifications:

10. 10+ years of hardware and software UX and experience working across the full product lifecycle

11. 2+ years of people management experience

12. Mentorship experience with experience leading an organization at various experience levels from interns to researchers

13. Technical knowledge across topics including social networks, new hardware, social acceptability of new devices, qualitative and quantitative data analysis

14. MS in HCI, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Human Factors, Anthropology, or a related field

15. Breadth and depth of research skills.

16. Experience to understand the balance and trade-offs between scrappy and rigor, and ultimately how research translates into design and product recommendations and decisions.

17. Experience in guiding a research team to develop generative, iterative, and evaluative research plans.

18. Must be familiar with every aspect of the product development lifecycle, including early (first principles) research and discovery, definition, and analysis of requirements.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

Preferred Qualifications:

19. PhD in HCI, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Human Factors, Anthropology, or a related field

20. Experience shipping consumer devices, including wearable devices

21. Experience with Wearable technology, AI/LLM-powered experiences

**Public Compensation:**

$163,000/year to $226,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

**Industry:** Internet

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