ABOUT METAVERSE ENGAGEMENT
The Metaverse Creative Group, within Meta’s Reality Labs, is seeking a Contract Design Program Manager (DPM) who is passionate about building innovative social immersive products and experiences that inspire meaningful human connection, creation and self expression.
This position will join a team responsible for creating the virtual economy within the Metaverse, across both mobile and VR experiences. This role partners closely with the Horizon Experiences Product Design, Creative and cross-functional teams responsible for building engaging consumer experiences and empowering creators, and developers, with the tools to build and scale their own businesses on Horizon.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Design Program Managers (DPM) at Meta are passionate connectors and problem solvers. By supporting the various aspects of our Creative and Design teams, you will enable x-Creative (Product Design, Content Design, UXR, Art, Game Design, Prototyping, etc.) and XFN teams to focus their time on designing, building and shipping world-class products. You will improve team communication and collaboration, remove roadblocks and help keep teams and products on track.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Specific responsibilities include:
Provide leadership and ongoing operational support for projects from ideation through execution. Includes quarterly planning, milestone breakdown, resource management, facilitating Design Reviews, and driving collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities include sprint planning, recruiting participants, managing and assigning design tasks, coordinating across disciplines, identifying deliverables required for execution, playtesting, publishing sprint outcomes, and ensuring timely follow-up and completion of work.
Help teams improve their operational effectiveness by identifying and addressing issues with workflows or tooling, set and measure performance goals, and foster a collaborative and creative community.
Facilitate meetings to drive progress against goals and objectives, and establish clear next steps and owners while resolving obstacles that impede progress.
Proactively assess risk, raise flags, and resolve issues before they become problems for the larger team.
Define, measure and communicate impact of programs, and initiatives, qualitatively and quantitatively.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
7+ years of experience as a Program Manager, Producer or Project Manager driving and delivering 0-to-1 products, 1-10 products and immersive experiences, preferably at a mobile, AR or VR/MR game studio, agency or consultancy.
Highly effective at establishing programs, supporting x-Creative and Design teams, leading and executing Design Sprints with many cross-functional (XFN) stakeholders, establishing operational rhythms, supporting planning and roadmapping–including resource/capacity planning, and developing relationships.
Track record of being detail-oriented, willing to wear multiple hats, identifying areas for improvement/support and delivering results in a highly organized manner.
Familiar leveraging Agile methodologies to drive iterative improvement, customer-centric design and rapid time-to-market.
Excels operating independently and collaboratively, with minimal oversight–inclusive of a fast-paced environment with lots of ambiguity.
Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions.
