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.
Keywords: Meta, Nashville , Technical Art Manager, Meta Reality Labs, Healthcare , Nashville, Tennessee
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