Animation Manager, Metaverse Art

The Meta Reality Labs - Metaverse Art, Animation group brings together world-class experts to pioneer the future of social virtual and augmented reality applications, and we are looking for a leader in art management.As an Animation Manager within Metaverse Art’s Animation group, you will coordinate and drive the animation team’s involvement and engagement with cross-functional groups within the Metaverse org and across the Family of Apps. Coming into this role, you will build strong executive relationships and partnerships across multiple internal cross-functional groups including product, engineering, design, and more. You will oversee the creation of quality content, help our avatars be loved and used by billions of users. And most importantly, you will continue to grow our multidisciplinary and diverse animation team.

Animation Manager, Metaverse Art Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of Animators and Animation Leads Drive progress at the people and project-facing levels by supporting team growth and prioritization, nurturing culture and building new partnerships.
• Become a trusted strategic partner to product stakeholders and executive leadership by communicating and demonstrating the value of art and animation, and by delivering insights that lead to demonstrable business value.
• Effectively influence key partner leaders to gain alignment in prioritization, resourcing, and budgeting.
• Engage with PMs, Designers and Engineer & Art Leads to define the art pipelines and components, scope and goals for key features within our various projects
• Support managers, technical leaders, and the creative vision by communicating with executive leadership, and championing the team’s needs to build a world-leading avatar system.
• Provide thought-leadership in establishing, implementing, and improving direction, goals, and processes for executing both near and long term vision.
• Make staffing decisions based on business priorities, both short term and long term, as well as team strengths and motivation.
• Build a diverse and an inclusive environment across the team, model inclusive behaviors

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience directly managing full-time artists, along with 7+ yrs developing and shipping character-based products in a game development, real-time rendering, or related technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience to manage the development, maintenance and documentation of 3D art and animation pipelines and vendor based asset creation
• Experience driving changes in operational processes and aligning teams to a strategic vision by solving conflicts and misalignments.
• Demonstrated experience to recruit, nurture, and grow talent
• Experience with roadmapping, budget management, and financial/performance tracking
• Interest for supporting ICs and other managers to produce a collaborative environment, where individuals bring in their best to produce effective results.
• Proven communication, presentation and diplomatic skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience shipping products & leading teams in the AR/VR industry
• Motion Graphics experience
• An understanding and knowledge of procedural animation systems
• Hands on experience in Unreal, Unity, or other real-time applications

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.