Job Description

At Reality Labs, Research, you will join a world-class team exploring cutting edge machine learning, computer vision, hardware, software, and state-of-the-art augmented and mixed reality technology. Every day, you will work alongside the world's leading Research Scientists, and Engineers to create the technology that will make VR and AR pervasive and universal.For this role, RL Research is looking for an exceptional TPM Manager to join our team. If your passion and experience lies in working with multidisciplinary teams and building the right processes and methodologies for them. If you’ve had experience with complex cutting edge technology. If you thrive helping your team coordinate and collaborate in the face of ambitious and ambiguous challenges, taking on work that has never been done before. We might have a spot for you.

Manager, Technical Program Manager (TPM), Reality Labs-Research Responsibilities:

• Directly manage a team of Technical Program Managers across the Optics & Display Research team through hiring, coaching, mentoring and training. Holding a high standard of performance both personally and for the TPM Organization.
• Translating research strategy and direction into goals, schedules, and milestones in partnership with key team leads.
• Drive technical and operational excellence within the team, coordinating and contributing to project management practices.
• Engage with partner and cross-functional teams to identify constraints, dependencies, and coordination areas, to deliver features at high quality.
• Identify resources needed and work closely with the team leads to maintain full visibility of multiple projects, ensuring resource gaps are addressed efficiently.
• Evaluate risks, opportunities and retrospectives to add, adjust, and remove processes based on learnings. Look for the right amount of process to accomplish the goal.
• Coordinate communication between internal and external teams and partners.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience as a technical program manager working in cross-functional hardware and software development.
• 6+ years experience managing small to medium sized teams, with demonstrated experience managing both over and underperforming team members.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or Engineering.
• Track record of driving through ambiguity and adapting to feedback in the context of at least 2 programs or products managed from inception to delivery.
• Analytical and negotiation skills in combination with effective communication experience, can translate high-level goals into tangible action plans, and vice-versa.
• Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers.
• Project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration experience (both inside and outside of an organization).
• Communication/presentation experience through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience tracking budgets and creating reliable quarterly estimates and accruals.
• Graduate degree in Computer vision, Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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