Technical Art Manager, Meta Reality Labs

Company: Meta
Location: Nashville
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Summary: The Meta Reality Lab group brings together world-class experts to develop and ship groundbreaking products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. We have a clear mandate to ship products at scale. As a part of that mission, we are pioneering the future of avatars in social experiences and are looking for a tech art leader to join our team.The Technical Art Manager will build, manage and mentor a multidisciplinary team of tech art leads and tech artists who are building cutting edge art pipelines and novel character technologies. You will be at the forefront of building an avatar system that seamlessly works across both real-time and offline surfaces including performing under the demands of high-end VR. It will also be required to scale to serve the billions of users that use Meta products.Join a cross functional team of software engineers, artists, product managers and designers who are passionate about creating a cutting-edge avatar experience that can provide the endless choices our users want to represent themselves in the Metaverse.Required Skills: Technical Art Manager, Meta Reality Labs Responsibilities:

• Support a team of technical artists, providing guidance, feedback, education, performance feedback, coaching and mentoring
• Identify, recruit, interview and hire technical artists
• Provide creative and technical leadership for innovative digital content solutions
• Proactively engage with PMs, designers, engineers and art leads to define tech art scope and solutions
• Learn constantly, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of problem solving in a fast-paced environment
• Deliver, request, and accept constructive feedback with a positive attitude with objective and accurate feedback
• Educate team members and partners on digital content best practices and techniques
• Identify and prioritize digital content needs across project proposalsMinimum Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications:
• Experience managing technical artists in games, film or other real-time development
• Experience with production toolsets and knowledge of 3D Art Tools (e.g. Shotgun, Jira, Trello, Maya, Houdini, Blender, etc.)
• Experience having supported 3D asset content creation in traditional or unique pipelines through tool development and/or character development
• Communication and leadership skills to support a team working in an ambiguous environment
• Technical art and problem-solving skills understand the underlying technology and tools necessary to power an advanced avatar system
• Collaboration skills with an experience explaining complex concepts in an easy to understand way
• Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams
• Proven track record of professional content development, including shipping one or more products using digital content creation toolsPreferred Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with Python, C#, or C++ in a 3D application or game engine
• Knowledge of emerging technologies
• Experience in game engines such as Unreal or Unity
• Familiar with popular open source projects like USDPublic Compensation: $181,000/year to $247,000/year + bonus + equity + benefitsIndustry: InternetEqual Opportunity: Facebook is proud to be an Equal 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. Facebook 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 accommodations-ext@fb.com.

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