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.

Facebook Reality Lab’s organization brings together world-class experts to develop and ship groundbreaking products connecting people and communities and help advance Facebook's mission of bringing the world closer together.

The Facebook Reality Labs Partnerships team is seeking a talented, highly motivated and experienced individual to drive partnerships across our AR Wearables devices in our AR/VR Partnerships team. She/he will lead a team of top-notch business development professionals looking at product partnerships to support development and launch of new AR/VR products.

You will have successfully led complex, first in-kind deals for product partnerships in consumer electronics and wearable devices. You will have deep experience growing and building a multi-level partnership organization. The ideal candidate will also have experience mentoring and developing a strong team, be a self-starter who is comfortable in a rapidly changing environment and takes a proactive and strategic approach to business development.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute on global product partnerships to support development and launch of upcoming AR products.
• Define, negotiate, and close complex product, marketing, brand, and technology with other CE companies, OEM’s, and brands.
• Develop, drive, and implement wearable product partner strategy that is aligned with FRL’s product strategy.
• Build and lead a global BD team of diverse product partnership managers.
• Work cross-functionally with product management, product marketing, legal, finance, and engineering teams to negotiate deal terms and advocate internally on behalf of partners.
  

Minimum Qualification

• BA/BS degree.
• 15+ years of work experience, including 10+ years of business development experience specifically in consumer electronics and/or wearables. Experience leading complex product partnerships with a broad set of cross functional team members in a fast paced environment.
• Proven experience in CE ecosystems with structuring and negotiating the business, technology and legal aspects of product partnership agreements, with a track record of closed strategic partnerships for hardware devices and related software.
• Global executive experience, having lived and/or worked in at least two continents and led global teams across US, Europe and Asia.
• Extremely hands-on structuring, negotiation and execution experience complex strategic deal constructs at C-level.
• Direct experience working cross-functionally with large product management, engineering, sales, and marketing teams, from individual contributors to executives.
• Interpersonal skills and experience developing working relationships inside and outside Facebook.
• Tech-savvy and product curious.
  

Preferred Qualification

• Technical degree with JD or MBA, joint degree (ie.,JD and MBA or Engineering/Computer Science and MBA).
• Experience operating with flexibility in a fast-paced, always-on, constantly evolving and collaborative environment and work effectively cross-functionally with all levels of management, both internally and externally.
• Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented and highly organized.
• Exceptional analytical, communication and presentation skills with technical, contractual and financial issues.
  

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.