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 Labs is in charge of our mission to create the foundation for an embodied internet called the Metaverse. To seamlessly share, collaborate, and socialize across every imaginable experience will require a digital identity that can exist in many forms and styles. We will have to invent new ways for users to express themselves, particularly through animation. As an Animation Art Manager within the FRL Avatar Art team, you will help define how people express and represent themselves across all our digital realities, particularly mobile and AR/VR experiences. You will work with a team of passionate animators, tech artists, designers, engineers, and PMs to bring the world together in the Metaverse.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of animators who are chartered with defining the visual targets and the execution of animated Expression Products (e.g. Stickers, Profile Pictures) for the Family of Apps within Facebook
• Recruit and hire talented contributors
• Establish review processes within the team and key stakeholders
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine mutual vision and goals for in-common product features
• Set team strategy - define objectives and measurable key results, plan the resulting roadmap
• Track asset pipeline, releases and versioning
• Engage with PMs, Designers and Engineering and Art and Tech Art Leads to define animation pipelines and components, scope and goals for key features within our various projects
  

Minimum Qualification

• 3+ years of art team management experience
• 3+ years of experience in 3D immersive software development as an animato
• Demonstrated experience managing animation pipelines and external teams
• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing individual contributors and leaders
• Cross-functional communication, presentation experience with a diplomatic style
• Experience with production toolsets and knowledge of 3D Art Tools (e.g. Shotgun, Jira, Trello, Photoshop, Maya, Modo and other)
  

Preferred Qualification

• Games & VR experience
• Social & Mobile App experience
• Distributed development experience
  

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.