Product Manager, AR Research

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Job Description

As a Research Product Manager, you will drive vision and define what success looks like for a long-term research program, work closely with world-class research and functional teams to define requirements and drive roadmaps for a new-to-world research prototype platform within augmented reality – changing the way we’ll work, communicate, and be entertained. Our team envisions, creates, incubates and transfers advanced technologies from research to product. Research product management roles can span the boundaries of integrated hardware/software systems, interaction design, application experiences, user interfaces, and machine learning/artificial intelligence, with the opportunity to collaborate with both the brightest Ph.D. researchers in the field and pioneering product development teams. Your excitement for innovating on emerging technologies and security/privacy to deliver into the hands of future consumers is a must. Project Aria is a research tool which accelerates Meta’s machine perception and AI learnings from a human perspective. Aria program has established a set of partners internally and externally which depends on Aria data, tooling, and services. In the future, we believe Aria will become a scaled program to supply many teams’ research data needs through high quality crowd-sourced data; meanwhile, it will be the research tool for selected external partnerships to advanced academic and industrial research on machine perception and AI.

Product Manager, AR Research Responsibilities:

  • We are looking for a Research Product Manager to drive long-term strategy and execution for Aria growth through internal and external engagement. This PM is responsible for expanding beyond what Aria has established today and takes the program to the next level with increasing value to the whole community.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 5+ years product management experience, working with both software and hardware teams
  • Proven technical understanding of the space - experiences in AR, AI or Computer vision related field
  • Knowledge to deal with highly complex and ambiguous concepts, creating structures to drive clarity and actions
  • Motivating and collaborating with our research team and XFN team
  • An effective influencer and communicator

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in a Research lab or a startup is a plus

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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