Creative Audio Manager, Wearables
About The Position
Meta is seeking an experienced Sound Design Manager to join our award-winning Creative Audio team of sound designers, design program managers, conversation designers, and creative coders. The role will be embedded within Meta's Wearables sector and will focus on people-management, cross-functional team building, tactical decision making, strategic thinking, and creative leadership. With Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN's in the market, you will have an opportunity to continue shaping audio for the entire end-to-end user experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional sound design, including interaction (User Experience) sound, and sound implementation experience, focused on high-quality sonic experiences in real-time interactive products
- 3+ years experience managing teams of creative and technical audio experts
- Experience leading audio direction and strategic thinking with a background developing product goals, roadmaps, and making decisions based on user impact
- Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating goals and strategy
- Knowledge in a wide range of sound design domains including interaction (UX) and immersive sound design for emerging mediums and platforms
- Understanding of the impact interaction sound design can have on people, brands, and product experiences
- Demonstrated skill with strategic decision making and tactical prioritization
- Experience in a quickly evolving environment
- Experience building and shipping sounds for applications or software across a variety of platforms
- Understanding of interaction sound design concepts, and why and how to create sounds
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with studio and location recording, editing, mixing, and mastering
- Facility with various management techniques (Agile, OKR, JTBD, RACI, etc.)
- Experience with audio policy
- Experience with coding or advanced scripting for complex sound implementation
- Experience identifying ways AI can make workflows more efficient
Responsibilities
- Manage a talented team of audio disciplines that consistently deliver on projects and are well-balanced across a range of design skill sets
- Lead the sonic user experience of Meta Wearables products in partnership with product managers, product designers, engineers, UX researchers and content designers
- Work with other audio managers & director to establish, encourage, and enforce best practices across the team
- Set clear expectations and goals while creating a positive work environment based on support and accountability
- Help design product manager manage resources and headcount against a wide, varied, and fast-evolving portfolio of Wearables features
- Escalate design blockers to appropriate manager partners
- Advocate for sound across Meta and in the larger creative community
- Understand the strengths and opportunities on the current team as it grows, actively participating in the recruitment and hiring process
- Present audio features at formal Product and Design reviews
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Industry
Broadcasting and Content Providers
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
