Technical Art Manager, Xr Kit

Meta’s XR team is helping more people around the world come together and connect through world-class AR and VR hardware and software. With global departments dedicated to AR and VR research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more, Reality Labs is committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation. VR and AR’s potential to change the world is immense—and we’re just getting started. We explore, develop, and deliver new cutting-edge technologies that serve as the foundation of current and future hardware products for both first-party and third-party. From mixed reality and human interaction to fashion in the metaverse, and beyond, our team helps take new technologies from early concept to the product level while iterating, prototyping, and realizing the human value and new experiences they make possible. Our team prototypes and builds novel, people-centric experiences and developer-toolkits in XR. Join to help us direct and develop new technologies that enable people representation, expression, and interaction in the metaverse.

Technical Art Manager, XR Kit Responsibilities:

• Lead a creative team of 3D, character, and technical artists
• Conceptualize, present and execute ideas within time and technical constraints
• Optimize performance by instructing artists on asset creation best practices, building reporting tools that flag performance hotspots, and working closely with art and engineering to fix performance problems
• Partner closely with art, engineering, user-experience, product management, and other teams to build novel XR experiences that push technological boundaries
• Learn constantly, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of AR/VR/MR problem solving in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborate with engineers to develop and test new features, prototype shader code, and provide useful feedback during testing phases

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience with 3D asset content creation including modeling, texturing, materials, VFX and lighting, for both mobile and high-end specs
• Experience of art team management in game development, film, or tech
• Technical art and problem solving skills – understand the underlying technology and tools necessary to make art for virtual reality
• Communication and leadership skills to foster a team in unfamiliar territory and nebulous requirements
• Familiarity with DCC tools such as Maya, Blender or Houdini, and with Unity/UE

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in game development, film, or interactive media
• Knowledge of emerging technologies
• Strong background on digital human representations in XR such as avatars
• Experience with Python, C#, or C++ in a 3d application or game engine
• Shader programming experience
• VR/AR experience
• Extensive content development experience, including shipped AAA games
• Meta Quest game development experience