Design Program Manager, Avatars

Meta’s mission is to accelerate the development of the fundamental technologies, social platforms and creative tools to bring the Metaverse to life, and to weave these technologies through our social media apps. We believe the Metaverse can enable better social experiences than anything that exists today, and we will dedicate our energy to helping achieve its potential.The Metaverse Design group brings together world-class experts to pioneer the future of social virtual and augmented reality applications. We are looking for a Design Program Manager who will report to the Product Design Manager of Avatars.Design Program Managers at Meta are passionate connectors and problem solvers. You will coordinate and drive the team’s involvement and engagement with cross-functional groups within the Metaverse org and across the Family of Apps. By supporting the various aspects of the product teams, you will enable teams to focus their time on designing, building and shipping products. You will improve team communication, collaboration, and remove roadblocks. Finally, you'll utilize a full range of organizational and interpersonal skills to help keep our teams on track, execute specific design initiatives intended to grow team community, industry expertise, and team impact, and you'll have an opportunity to work with cross-functional teams as you establish great ways of working together.

Design Program Manager, Avatars Responsibilities:

• Identify and drive product initiatives forward that have multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, and many moving parts
• Define and manage strategic initiatives that improve product team efficiency and impact
• Facilitate meetings to drive progress against goals and objectives, and establish clear next steps and owners while resolving blocks that impede progress
• Proactively assess risk, raise flags, and resolve issues before they become problems for the larger teams
• Define and measure impact of programs and initiatives both qualitatively and quantitatively
• Track the overall design program, inside and outside the team, identify and solve issues before others can see them
• Manage the design team’s operations, ranging from onboarding programmes to acquiring prototyper hardware
• Identify opportunities for operational and people improvements and drive them to resolution
• Represent design in a variety of forums with product, engineering or other XFN
• Set the bar for what organizational and operational excellence looks like

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience working with product teams or programs from roadmapping through delivery
• Understanding of the product development and design process, especially in 0-1 space
• Strong experience as a digital producer, project manager or program manager with experience establishing programs, supporting design teams, and developing relationships
• Experience leading product or business strategy in a fast-paced environment
• Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions
• Critical eye for high-craft design
• Track record of operating independently and without oversight
• Experience working directly with product designers, UX researchers, and content strategists

Preferred Qualifications:

• Willingness and passion to deeply understand the product space and Avatars platform we are building
• Passion to work on emerging technologies