Full-Time

Technical Art Manager

Metaverse Technical Art

Posted on 12/16/2024

Meta

Meta

10,001+ employees

Social media platforms and virtual reality solutions

Compensation Overview

$181k - $250k/yr

+ Bonus + Equity + Benefits

Senior, Expert

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Burlingame, CA, USA

Category
Character Design
3D Modeling
Animation
Visual Effects (VFX)
Art, Graphics & Animation
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience leading creative work, overseeing creative and technical teams working in real-time, immersive 3D products, such as games, film, VR and AR products.
  • 5+ years experience directly managing, coaching and developing full-time employees, including managing skip-reports.
  • Experience with working on digital characters across more than one product type (feature animation, vfx, games, vr/ar, etc.)
  • Experience making operational contributions at both strategic and tactical levels at a large organization.
  • 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 leaders.
  • Experience presenting and pitching to executive leadership.
  • Experience with budget allocation and financial/performance tracking.
  • Experience supporting ICs and other managers to produce a collaborative environment, where individuals bring in their best to produce results.
Responsibilities
  • Provide technical art direction for avatar development, ensuring consistency, quality, and visual coherence across all digital assets.
  • Manage and mentor a team of managers, technical leads, and technical artists, providing guidance, feedback, and coaching to ensure their growth and success.
  • Working with the producers, oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of avatar-related projects, ensuring timely completion, budget adherence, and stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Collaborate with the content economy leadership to develop strategies for creating, managing, and monetizing digital assets, including avatars, wearables, and other virtual goods.
  • Drive the development of a modular content system that enables massive-scale content creation through both internal and external tooling.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in technical art, and apply this knowledge to improve our workflows, tools, and pipelines.
  • Work closely with engineering, design, product, and marketing teams to ensure seamless integration of avatars and digital assets into our products and services.
  • Develop and implement quality control processes to ensure that all digital assets meet our high standards for visual quality, performance, and functionality.
  • Manage budgets and resource allocation for avatar development and content economy initiatives, ensuring effective use of resources and ROI.
  • Communicate technical art vision, plans, and progress to stakeholders, including executives, product managers, and external partners.
  • Encourage innovation and experimentation within the team, exploring new technologies, techniques, and tools to stay ahead of the competition.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience leading in a real-time product with character focus at a tech company.
  • Experience starting a team from the ground up, and scaling it significantly.
  • Experience working at a technology company, for an interactive, technical art-related product.

Meta Platforms Inc. focuses on social media, communication tools, and virtual reality. It operates popular platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, allowing users to connect, share content, and engage in communities. The Oculus division provides virtual reality hardware and experiences. Meta's primary revenue comes from advertising, offering businesses tools to target specific audiences using insights from its large user base. This advertising service is scalable and allows for tailored audience segmentation. Additionally, Meta explores revenue through virtual reality product sales and the metaverse, where it looks to monetize virtual goods and services. The company also invests in artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enhance its offerings, aiming to combine user engagement with advanced marketing tools.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California

Founded

2004

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What believers are saying

  • ImageBind could create new opportunities for advertisers with engaging content.
  • HorizonOS v76 update may attract more users to Meta's VR ecosystem.
  • Partnership with Ovative could optimize marketing strategies with valuable insights.

What critics are saying

  • AI-generated Instagram comments face backlash, risking user dissatisfaction.
  • Legal challenges in Klein v. Meta could damage reputation over data privacy.
  • HorizonOS v76 update may face user resistance if expectations aren't met.

What makes Meta unique

  • Meta integrates six data types with ImageBind, enhancing AI capabilities.
  • Meta's platforms offer scalable advertising with data-driven audience targeting.
  • Meta's Oculus division provides cutting-edge virtual reality experiences.

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

7%

2 year growth

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