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.

At Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), our goal is to explore, innovate and design novel interfaces and hardware systems for the next generation of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. We are looking for a skilled and motivated Technical Program Manager to join our team, whose mission is creating the future of input and interaction for AR and VR. We are specifically looking for a candidate with experience owning and driving vision and strategy across a portfolio of hardware development projects in close partnership with leadership from research, hardware engineering, product management, and design. More broadly, the chosen candidate will work with a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers and will have access to cutting edge technology, resources, and testing facilities.

Responsibilities

• Program manage across a portfolio of new hardware programs from initial conception, through hardware design and development, to delivery of tested, useable prototypes
• drive creation of and own messaging of the overarching vision for this complete portfolio
• Work across cross-functional partners (materials science, hardware engineering, research, and design) to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, and timelines across portfolio of investments
• Proactively identify technical, procedural, legal, logistical, and communications challenges and drive creative solutions to resolve issues and mitigate risks
• Coordinate communications across internal and external teams, including upwards communication to team leadership
  

Minimum Qualification

• Holds a Bachelor’s degree in the field of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field
• 7+ years experience with project/program management in a technical domain building, coordinating, and maintaining schedules and shared resources across multiple inter-disciplinary teams for hardware development projects
• Experience understanding and communicating technical information to non-technical stakeholders
• Track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organized manner
• Experience working with organizational leadership to define and communicate team’s long term mission, vision, and strategy
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience within academic or industry research settings
• Experience with development of novel, “0-1”, hardware prototypes
• Familiarity with one or more of the following domains would be a bonus: AR/VR, bio-sensing, HCI, novel materials manufacturing, soft electronics, wearable technologies, soft goods manufacturing
  

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.