Producer, Sound & Voice

Meta•San Francisco, CA

5d•$189,000 - $257,000

About The Position

The Producer, Sound & Voice is a senior production leader in Future Design Studio who helps shape how future Reality Labs products sound, speak, and feel. Across the studio’s portfolio, this role defines sonic production strategy, identifies future production capabilities, and translates emerging creative vision into coherent experiences across hardware, software, and AI. The producer partners with design leadership, Creative Audio, Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and external talent to structure and champion sound and voice work across Reality Labs. The role establishes roadmaps, operating models, and quality standards, and guides work from early exploration through launch. It calls for a discipline-leading producer who can align senior leaders on craft, technology, resources, rights, and risk, while building the systems, talent ecosystem, and shared standards that make sound and voice defining design materials across Reality Labs.

Requirements

10+ years of audio, sound, voice, music, or multidisciplinary creative production experience, with demonstrated progression in strategic scope, organizational influence, and creative leadership.
Track record of defining production strategy and leading multiple complex, zero-to-one initiatives across teams or organizations.
Experience across the full audio production lifecycle, including creative development, casting, recording, editing, sound design, composition, mixing, mastering, implementation, localization, and quality assurance.
Experience in voice and performance production, including evaluating talent, directing performances, defining voice systems, and protecting performer integrity and product intent.
Knowledge of emerging voice and audio AI technologies, such as synthetic voice and generative audio, and their effects on production.
Experience building production systems, creative capabilities, operating models, or standards that improve quality and execution across a portfolio.
Experience creating or using tools that simplify workstreams and coordinate cross-functional efforts.
Experience resolving complex cross-functional conflicts and influencing senior leaders on creative direction, technical tradeoffs, prioritization, resources, rights, and risk.
Experience managing significant budgets, vendors, contracts, rights, schedules, and multidisciplinary internal and external teams.
Executive communication and narrative skills, including the ability to turn subjective creative choices and ambiguous futures into clear strategy, decisions, and action.

Nice To Haves

Global network across sound, music, and voice talent, studios, agencies, and production partners.
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
Industry thought leadership demonstrated through influential shipped work, awards, writing, or widely adopted practices.
Experience applying responsible practices for consent, provenance, safety, and evaluation in conversational AI, synthetic voice, voice cloning, or generative audio.
Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt or context engineering and agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Knowledge of spatial and immersive audio, room and device acoustics, haptics integration, and constrained playback systems.
Understanding of modern audio and interactive production tools and workflows, such as Pro Tools or Logic, Wwise or FMOD, Unity or Unreal, and rapid prototyping environments.
Experience producing a sonic identity or product sound system and coordinating its rollout across multiple products, platforms, or organizations.
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Experience developing and improving workflows using generative AI systems.
Experience producing globally across languages and cultures, including localization strategy, multilingual voice, cultural adaptation, and accessible audio experiences.
Experience producing and coordinating sound and voice work for premium consumer technology, wearables, AR/VR, AI assistants, spatial computing, or other emerging interfaces.

Responsibilities

Define Future Design Studio’s multi-year sound and voice production strategy, translating product and design ambitions into priorities, investments, capability plans, and an executable portfolio roadmap.
Partner with design leadership to shape the sonic point of view for future products and experiences, including interaction sound, voice, music, spatial audio, and audio synchronized with motion and haptics.
Own production strategy, scope, resource models, budgets, dependencies, milestones, and launch plans for sound and voice initiatives across hardware, software, and AI programs.
Manage voice production across casting, production, implementation, deployment, and ongoing quality control in partnership with design and voice leads; apply knowledge of emerging voice and AI audio technologies.
Navigate tradeoffs involving creative intent, product strategy, technical constraints, timing, rights, and risk, and build alignment among senior Design, Product, Engineering, Research, and business leaders.
Coordinate existing and future production capabilities, including rapid sonic prototyping, spatial and embodied audio workflows, AI-assisted production, voice evaluation, device testing, localization, asset systems, and quality assurance.
Develop an external talent ecosystem of voice directors, performers, studios, agencies, and emerging-technology partners, and establish standards for selection, briefing, collaboration, and delivery.
Influence portfolio planning and resource allocation through recommendations on priorities, staffing, budgets, vendor strategy, and tradeoffs; identify systemic risks and develop durable solutions.
Partner with Legal, Business Affairs, Privacy, Policy, and Responsible Innovation on responsible practices for music and voice rights, performer consent, provenance, data use, synthetic voice, and AI-generated audio.
Mentor producers and creative leads, codify best practices, and foster a culture that reinforces creative ambition, operational rigor, and responsible innovation.