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 products in collaboration with external developers, stakeholders, or partners.As a Product Owner at Oculus, you'll play a critical role in building the future of virtual reality content, and applications for productivity, collaboration and general purpose computing experiences. You'll engage, support, and serve as the primary product manager between Oculus and key developers and content partners. You will manage top tier developers throughout their development cycle from concept to application launch to ongoing updates. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with platform products, 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. The ideal candidate has extensive XR/game development experience and experience managing third party developers.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, ecosystem thesis to find promising use cases and product market fit for AR/VR apps for Productivity, Collaboration, Work, and general purpose computing experiences
• Contribute to key planning and decision making for the roadmap of the entire team
• Work closely with platform product management teams to land the Oculus strategy for collaboration and productivity applications
• Own end-to-end production and release roadmaps of development projects with top tier developers and partners. You will be responsible for the product vision, feature trade-offs/decisions and quality of the experience delivered by the developers and partners
• Conceptualize interesting and achievable VR interactions suited to our brand and our team and provide both design and development feedback to developers and content partners
• Oversee and manage product features (including design, art, development) and milestones from start to finish, managing scope, a high quality bar, and on-time delivery with partners and developers
• Work cross-functionally with internal product, store, engineering, policy, legal, marketing, and PR teams to launch non-game applications for businesses and consumers
• Assess risk and proactively assist developers and internal teams in problem-solving
• Can travel frequently for partner meetings, domestically and internationally (post COVID-19)
  

Minimum Qualification

• 8+ years of experience in product management/game development/interactive experiences development within the games, media, entertainment, SaaS, productivity & collaboration apps, electronics, technology/platform, early-stage internet/consumer technology companies
• Experience shipping products and/or ushering clients through product and platform launches
• Evangelize new and existing VR technologies with developers to ensure they experience taking full advantage of ongoing enhancements and improvements
• Experience partnering with and managing outside vendors
• Demonstrated experience with data-driven decision-making
• Experience building partnerships across multiple internal cross functional groups and external developers
• Strategic thinker with experience balancing and prioritizing short-term solutions while keeping the long-term vision in mind
• Experience thriving in a fast-paced start-up, juggling projects and developers
• Executive presence, effective communication and presentation skills
• Experience working independently, without significant manager involvement
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience in game development with both internal and external development teams
• VR development experience
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, demonstrates initiative, flexibility, composure under pressure, and anticipates, communicates and resolves problems before they develop
• Thrives in ambiguity, drives toward clarity
  

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.