About the position
Meta is looking for a Reality Labs (RL) Visual Merchandising Project Manager. This person will be responsible for developing global retail display concepts in partnership with retail creative that help bring Meta products to life in physical retail. This role plays an instrumental part in contributing to the RL vision for our global customers to find, learn and experience RL products through our various retail channels. This person needs to have a keen sensibility when it comes to working through everything related to merchandising, including a balancing act between the brand, 3rd party retail needs, limitations on retail technology & product experience and overarching timelines. They are responsible for translating Meta strategic product and sales initiatives into compelling merchandising programs that create an best in class customer experience. The primary role of the VM Project Manager is to ensure that all visual merchandising components including fixtures, demo units, graphics and display technologies are designed and produced on brand, on budget, and on time to meet our channel marketing needs. There will be continued focus on optimizing our existing displays as well as a large emphasis on designing experiences for future unreleased Meta products that are in the roadmap, establishing global design requirements including concepting / engineering / prototyping to enable the local regional teams to take that guidance for production. This role is expected to partner with Meta retail creative as well as retail tech, product marketing and the regional Meta physical merchandising teams to design, engineer and prototype displays for RL products based on channel & retailer needs. The VM Project Manager must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment working collaboratively across a wide variety of cross functional partners internally and externally.
Responsibilities
- Develop global retail display concepts in partnership with retail creative.
- Translate Meta strategic product and sales initiatives into compelling merchandising programs.
- Ensure all visual merchandising components are designed and produced on brand, on budget, and on time.
- Optimize existing displays and design experiences for future unreleased Meta products.
- Establish global design requirements including concepting, engineering, and prototyping.
- Partner with Meta retail creative, retail tech, product marketing, and regional merchandising teams.
- Manage relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in retail displays (brand side or vendor side).
- Proven experience understanding shopper experiences and translating them into physical design requirements.
- Experience sharing program/project updates across broad teams and organizations.
- Demonstrated high level of accuracy and attention to detail in complex display programs.
- Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills, approachable and flexible.
- Ability to create and manage project and budget trackers.
- BA/BS degree in Business, Graphic Design or a related field.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with global retail partners and their guidelines/processes.
- Experience within a brand executing a direct-to-consumer physical retail strategy.
- Prior history of developing and building retail displays within the consumer electronics categories.
- Experience in bringing projects from concept stage through design, development, and execution.
- Experience in bringing new products to life.
- Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility.
- Knowledge of presentation decks for executives and partners.
