At Facebook, we have a responsibility to everyone who uses our services to amplify the good and mitigate the harm to make sure that people are safe on Facebook, and their information is protected. Many of these questions arent new, but new products and technologies raise new issues that Facebook takes very seriously. As a member of our Responsible Innovation team, you will play a key role in supporting Facebooks ongoing efforts to build innovative products thoughtfully and responsibly. Youll serve as a pivotal team member and a direct resource for many teams broadly across the company. In particular, youll help product teams anticipate potential civil rights harms in our products and effectively mitigate those risks. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of identifying and addressing equity and inclusion issues for many different products across a wide range of underrepresented groups. Candidates should be accomplished at building and managing relationships with both internal and external subject matter experts and other relevant stakeholders, and ideally have experience working in or directly with product teams.
Responsible Innovation Manager, Equity and Inclusion Responsibilities
* Serves as a equity and inclusion expert on the Responsible Innovation team, providing this lens on Responsible Innovation collaboration with product teams through engagements like workshops and Office Hours
* Contributes relevant equity and inclusion content to Responsible Innovation guidance documents, education, and other resources for product teams
* Leads engagement with external equity and inclusion experts across Responsible Innovation activities
* Support other Responsible Innovation engagements and strategic projects
Minimum Qualifications
* 8+ years of experience in tech, policy, advocacy, academia, or other relevant fields
* Expertise in discrimination concepts, principles, and applications, including both intentional and unintentional discrimination
* Experience working inside fast-moving companies/organizations
* Proven experience working collaboratively across a wide variety of functions to drive effective outcomes
* Communication skills and project management experience
* Experience with consensus-building
* Experience operating independently and executing on both the strategic and operational level
* Experience working on a new team with ambiguity and changing responsibilities
* BA/BS Degree
Preferred Qualifications
* Advanced degree preferred
* Experience identifying and addressing equity and inclusion issues in technology products
* Experience or expertise understanding the impacts of technology on individuals, communities, and society
* Experience working with technical and product teams
* Experience representing companies externally and internally at the executive level
* Experience working in a global organization preferably in the technology industry
* Experience working with a broad array of teams to implement success metrics
* Experience building a program from inception to implementation
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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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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.