Summary:

The Meta Design community is pioneering technologies to bring people closer together, and our teams share in the responsibility of doing it at a global scale. We are committed to designing and building Facebook apps and technologies -- the Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and Facebook Reality Labs to serve a diverse global community. Facebook is looking for a Product Design Director with strong design, communication and leadership skills with a penchant for high craft, and is deeply technical with an expertise toward novel systems to control custom hardware. As a Product Design Director in this role, you will lead and manage teams to ensure our products and features are exceptionally well crafted, are easy to use, and leading the way in the future of personal computing.In this role, you'll be a member of the leadership team, working together with your product partners in engineering, UX research, research scientists, content design, art and other disciplines to define the strategy, operations, communications, and technical human-centric KPIs for inputs & outputs, that guide the team to build exceptional products. Candidates will need experience working closely with hardware and industrial design teams as it is necessary to develop well integrated inputs/output solutions for novel computing devices . The role supports two teams: One with design system designers that work on guidelines and components that need to work across many devices, from smartphones, to hardware unlike anything currently in the market. Another team to be managed by this role is mostly composed of highly specialized technical prototypers that focus on human factors and on early-prototype hardware directly establishing a scientific approach to establishing KPIs for human perception, responsiveness, population coverage, accuracy, precision, etc. The teams are distributed across multiple offices working across multiple product lines simultaneously.

Required Skills:

Director, Product Design Responsibilities:

1. Build and manage a talented, diverse, inclusive team of product designers, prototypers and leaders that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skill sets.

2. Drive collaboration and vision across the company to build alignment on priorities leading to product design and execution.

3. Shape the product roadmap, both short term and long-term.

4. Partner closely with a world-class (and global) team of product managers, engineers, content designers, user experience researchers, research scientists, and artists to deliver high quality experiences for people across markets, platforms and product surfaces.

5. Oversee multiple projects and scale design resources accordingly, ensuring deadlines are met, your org is effective, and team members are set up for success by setting clear and measurable goals. Your team will be a key dependency for all other teams so must balance working on different timelines for a variety of product releases especially well.

6. Develop design talent and build a thriving culture where designers grow in their careers and feel a strong sense of inclusion and belonging with their XFN partners.

7. Design and scale the organization and equip the team for success in their goals.

8. Foster a strong, collaborative design practice as a leader beyond the confines of the Design discipline..

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

9. Previous experience and technical acumen applicable to the management of engineers and/or prototypers and experience to help them improve their workflows.

10. Previous experience in the development of operating systems and/or shells.

11. Previous experience creating high-craft visual and interaction design systems for mobile, web required. Creating design systems for non-traditional HW is a bonus.

12. Experience designing novel input methods for custom hardware in non-standard form-factors, and partnering closely with ID and sensor teams.

13. 2+ years working closely with industrial design teams in co-developing hardware.

14. 6+ years of leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership, including hiring and developing senior managers and individual contributors.

15. 10+ years of experience in Product Design.

16. 10+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams.

17. Senior people management, team development, recruiting and org building experience.

18. Experience growing a strategic design practice within design teams.

19. Visual and interaction experience in software design and developing design systems.

20. Organizational and analytical experience.

Public Compensation:

$244,000/year to $312,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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