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'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 Head of Oculus Studios, you will be responsible for driving VR adoption and growing the VR ecosystem with high quality games for Quest, Quest 2, and Rift headsets. You’ll oversee a first party studio organization with three internal studios (Beat Games, Sanzaru, and Ready at Dawn) as well as a portfolio of large, triple-A second party game projects based on top global game and entertainment IP. You’ll manage the leaders and teams that are building, launching, and running VR games based on internal brands like Beat Saber and Echo VR. You’ll also work with external partners on top tier IP including Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Medal of Honor, and several other beloved franchises. Facebook Reality Labs will be looking to your organization to deliver large, complex VR game projects on time, on budget, and to the highest level of quality. You’ll also be expected to keep compelling content flowing into your live game services.You’ll be working with talented studio heads and executive producers who are accomplished creative and team leaders with track records of success. Your mission will be to empower them to do their best work, clear away obstacles, solve problems, and facilitate collaboration with the FRL cross-functional teams your organization needs in order to succeed (including Marketing, Communications, Legal, Partnerships, Finance, HR, Platform, Data Science, and others).Coming into this role, you will have had a successful career managing game development projects at scale. You will have had experience leading an organization with multiple game studios or large teams. You will be able to get the best out of strong leaders running studios and big second party projects. You’ll have the skills to manage partnerships with some of the biggest game publishers and entertainment companies in the world. You’ll know how to work with top tier brands and franchises, delivering high quality games that add brand equity to the franchises they are based on rather than exploiting them. You will have demonstrated the ability to manage teams running live operations for game services with long arcs (measured in years). Messenger engagement has increased dramatically and Messenger teams are focused on continuing to increase the user base, improve user experience across existing features, but also largely focused on developing new product and features across the platform to engage all demographics (Visual messaging, Status, Realtime Communication, Expression, Groups, VoIP, Chat Heads, and Rich Attachment Types).Messenger currently has 1.5 Billion plus monthly active users, and this team focuses on making Messenger a platform that enables new communication experiences both inside Messenger and across the FB family of apps. We are looking for a Data Scientist who enjoys working on complex technical problems and can connect deep technical concepts to business strategy and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead our first party studio organization, which includes Beat Games, Sanzaru, and Ready At Dawn, in building, launching, and running top quality VR games like Beat Saber and Echo VR.
• Oversee a portfolio of large scale, triple-A VR games based on top global IP being built by external partners (including internal development teams at large game publishers and independent developers building games in partnership with licensors). You’ll need to be able to lead through influence with these partners.
• Manage against the twin mandates to drive VR adoption and grow the VR ecosystem. Driving VR adoption means generating anticipation and excitement around major triple-A releases, inspiring consumers to buy VR headsets. Growing the VR ecosystem means generating revenue from the games that are launched, delivering a good return to your licensors and partners so that they feel good about further investments in VR.
• Be a servant leader for your team of high powered studio heads and executive producers, helping them to do their best work by empowering them to succeed, clearing obstacles and solving problems, and facilitating collaboration with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Communications, Legal, Partnerships, Finance, HR, Platform, Data Science, Policy, Privacy, and others.
• In partnership with the Content Operations team, continue evolving the internal Game Development Framework that we use to guide, manage, and influence the development of large multi-year entertainment software projects. Lead your teams through the key cross-disciplinary gate reviews and check-ins that build on each other to give projects the foundation for launching on time, on budget, and to the highest standards of quality.
• Work with your Studios leadership team to define and drive product and portfolio strategy, including collaboration with our Marketing team to define the right product mix for the future, engagement with <![CDATA[Facebook
• Work cross-functionally to define problem statement, create long term product vision, and build analytical models to make recommendations
• Apply analytical skills to gain deep insights into Messenger’s platform performance and how it affects end user experience
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify new levers to improve platform performance and user experience
• Influence the product roadmap and decisions made through presentation of data-based recommendations
• Lead investigations and communicate metrics, trends and other key indicators to leadership
• Leverage tools like R, Python, Hadoop & SQL to drive efficient analytics
  

Minimum Qualification

• Advanced degree in Math/Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
• Experience initiating and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
• Experience in cross-functional partnership among teams of Engineers and PMs
• Understanding of statistics (e.g., hypothesis testing, regressions)
• Experience communicating the results of analyses with product and leadership teams to influence the roadmap of the product
  

Preferred Qualification

• Enthusiasm for the space & problem Messenger is trying to solve
• Experience working on SaaS platforms
• Exposure to large scale systems, comfortable with technical discussions
• Experience with large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop)
• Experience in SQL and a scripting language (Python preferred)
  

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.