Studio: Reality Labs
Job Opening: Animation Manager, Metaverse Art
Location: Burlingame, California, US
Type: Full-Time
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 inclusive environment across the team, model inclusive behaviors
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ years of experience directly managing full-time artists, along with 7+ years developing and shipping character-based products in game development, real-time rendering, or related technical environments.
- Demonstrated experience in managing 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 road mapping, 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
- 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
