Technical Program Manager - Digital Human Research

Reality Labs Research (RL-R) brings together a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers to create the future of augmented and virtual reality.Our team experiments with bold ideas to create the next generation of digital humans and avatars.We cultivate an honest and considerate environment where self-motivated individuals thrive. We encourage a strong sense of ownership and embrace the ambiguity that comes with working on the frontiers of research.As a Technical Program Manager on the Digital Humans team, you will foster our scientific explorations in areas like motion/appearance capture via novel camera systems, biophysical models, simulation and rendering. You will generate viable paths to the consumer products that will connect people in a meaningful way for decades to come.Together, let’s step into the adventure of a lifetime as we make science fiction real, and change the world.

Technical Program Manager - Digital Human Research Responsibilities:

• Program Manage our research/engineering team’s efforts to develop software/hardware for prototype systems and our team’s efforts to drive human subject experiment protocols and data collection studies to verify the prototype systems.
• Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative methods and a subset of quantitative methods, such as surveys.
• Work with research/engineering teams to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, bottlenecks, and risks and translate to an action plan.
• Coordinate cross-functional interactions, communication, and alignment.
• Define and maintain schedule, gather requirements, track resources, develop integration plans, track progress, prioritize initiatives, and proactively identify/address potential setbacks.
• Create and manage new processes and tools to improve team collaboration and communication.
• Help define organization-wide practices for privacy and other policy compliance around data collection and handling by research teams.
• Proactively identify technical, legal, procedural, logistical, and communication issues and drive creative solutions to fix them and manage risk.
• Ensure that the information your team needs is complete, current, accurate, and easy to find. Recognize when further information is required and work to provide it.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of industry technical program management experience or equivalent.
• 4+ years experience defining and driving project progress and schedules.
• 4+ years experience working with cross-functional teams, building relationships, motivating people and resolving disagreements.
• 4+ years organizing teams projects, making tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver software and hardware solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in technical program management for Research.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams, e.g., research, software, and hardware.
• Exposure to hardware prototyping and development processes.

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.