Developer Relations Lead

Employer

Job Description

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

As a founding member of Oculus’ Collaboration, Productivity, Work, and general purpose computing experiences related content efforts, you will work with the most creative and innovative developers, creators and publishers in VR and AR. You will help VR/AR developers build non-game applications that enable people to create, consume, collaborate in ways that further productive pursuits or economic outcomes. This will include emerging VR categories such as meetings, creative tools, design tools, business apps and as yet unimagined experiences. This is a zero to one opportunity to work on pre-product market fit ideas and create and implement strategies and plans to bring products to market in collaboration with external developers, stakeholders, or partners.You will manage partners throughout their development cycle from concept to application launch to ongoing updates. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the long-term success of our developers in the Oculus Store by enabling them on business model, production and technical topics. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with product, business development, store, marketing & communications teams to ensure a world-class developer experience, and that our consumers are thrilled with the caliber of content found on Oculus platforms.

Responsibilities
  • Enable, support and manage relationships with the top tier of developer partners, ensuring a world-class developer experience
  • Track, supervise, elevate execution risks and help mitigate them across the developers product life cycle from concept submission to launch
  • Translate developer strategy into plans that are clear and measurable, with progress shared out at key product and project milestones to stakeholders
  • Work cross-functionally with internal product, store, engineering, policy, legal, marketing, and PR teams to launch non-game applications for businesses and consumers
  • Work closely with product management teams to land the Oculus strategy for collaboration and productivity applications
  • Champion the needs of our developers in the development of VR and AR products and services
  • Translate developer needs to internal product teams, and be an advocate for Oculus-driven platform initiatives with our partners
  • Collaborate with our Analytics teams to identify new areas and opportunities for growth, and provide insights and intelligence in support of our partners
  • Help developers experiment with go to market models that help them build a profitable, sustainable business in partnership with business development and growth teams
  • Evangelize new and existing VR technologies with developers to ensure they are able to take full advantage of ongoing enhancements and improvements
  • Can travel frequently for partner meetings, domestically and internationally (post COVID-19)
Minimum Qualification
  • 4+ years of business development, partnerships and/or publishing experience within the games, media, entertainment, SaaS, productivity & collaboration apps, electronics, technology/platform, early-stage internet/consumer technology companies
  • Project management experience, with experience in managing milestones, schedules and tracked tasks
  • Track record of working with external developers or vendors
  • Demonstrated experience with data-driven decision-making
  • Experience building partnerships across multiple internal cross functional groups and external developers
  • Strategic thinker with the experience balancing and prioritize short-term solutions while keeping the long-term vision in mind
  • BA or BS degree

Preferred Qualification
  • Understanding of general development pipelines for 3D applications
  • Familiarity with the emerging VR content ecosystem
  • Experience creating developer policies, platform terms of service
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.