Facebook

Creative Director, FRL Avatars

Posted on: 18 Jan 2021

Menlo Park, CA

Job Description

The Facebook Reality Labs group brings together world-class experts to develop and ship groundbreaking products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. We have a clear mandate to ship products at scale. We are currently seeking a Creative Director on our Reality Labs Avatars team to partner with art directors, designers, producers, researchers, and product marketers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with virtual characters for real time and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, semi-structured environment. This person must be comfortable guiding teams and production partners and should be willing to roll up their sleeves to do the work when necessary.

Creative Director, FRL Avatars Responsibilities

* Partner with leads on the strategic and creative direction of our Avatars across Facebook products

* Define direction for creative in new product experiences

* Inspire the creative team to be passionate and ambitious in their work

* Maintain and manage consistency of quality across the team

* Influence leaders and key partners across Facebook products to gain alignment and communicate with conviction

* Partner closely with product, design and engineering to identify opportunities for feature enhancements that would elevate the quality and user experience

* Collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, product marketers and engineers to serve a global audience

* Direct inclusive representation for avatars across our family of applications

Minimum Qualifications

* 8+ years of experience creating digital content with specific expertise in mobile

* Highly strategic thinker and communicator

* Experience working cross-functionally, balance the needs of stakeholders, and break down complex narratives into simple, compelling ideas

* Experience working in a product development process

* Experience providing direction on the content strategy

* Foundation in 3D characters systems and a knowledge in understanding of technical challenges for creating character based mobile or real-time products

* Experience spotting trends and understand popular culture in the global media landscape

* Demonstrated presentation, interpersonal, and communication skills, with experience communicating complex, sometimes abstract, concepts clearly and persuasively

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About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

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Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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