Art Manager, Avatars

Meta’s mission is to accelerate the development of the fundamental technologies, social platforms and tools to bring the metaverse to life. We believe the metaverse can enable better social experiences than anything that exists today, and we will dedicate our energy to helping achieve its potential.

The Avatars Art group brings together experts to pioneer the future of social virtual and augmented reality applications, and we are looking for a leader in art management.

As an Art Manager within Avatars, you will coordinate and drive the art team’s involvement and engagement with cross-functional groups within the Metaverse organization and across the Family of Apps. Coming into this role, you will build executive relationships and partnerships across multiple internal cross functional groups including product, engineering, design, and more. You will oversee the creation of quality content, help our avatars be loved and used by billions of users. And most importantly, you will continue to grow our multidisciplinary, diverse art team.

Art Manager, Avatars Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of Artists and Art Leads.
• Drive progress at people and project-facing levels by supporting team growth and prioritization, building new partnerships, and more.
• Become a trusted partner to product stakeholders and executive leadership by communicating and demonstrating the value of art, 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 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years experience directly managing full-time artists, along with 7+ years developing and shipping character-based products in a game development, real-time rendering, or related technical environment.
• Experience managing the development, maintenance and documentation of art pipelines and vendor-based asset creation.
• Experience driving changes in operational processes and aligning teams to a vision by solving conflicts and misalignments.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, nurturing, and growing talent.
• Experience with road mapping, budget management, and financial/performance tracking.
• Clear communication and presentation skills.

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About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

$175,000/year to $236,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits