Job Description

Facebook Sound Design is looking for an experienced Sound Design Manager to join our award-winning team. The role has a strong focus on people-management, team building, and tactical decision making. It also allows for hands-on sound design, implementation, and production work, and features a long runway for innovation, creativity, and strategic thinking.

Sound Design Manager Responsibilities

* Support a growing team of Sound Designers, focusing on team engagement and fulfillment, facilitating career growth, and creating a supportive atmosphere of innovation, excellence, and execution

* Work with Sound Design Director and Creative Operations to establish, encourage, and enforce best practices across the team

* Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on support and accountability, in collaboration with the Sound Design Team leadership

* Help manage resources and headcount against a wide, varied, and fast-evolving portfolio of projects

* Collaborate with Engineering, Design, and Product Management in teams across Facebook to incorporate innovative audio experiences into our family of products

* Advocate for the role and value of sound across Facebook and in the larger creative community

* Understand the strengths and opportunities on the current team as it grows, and recruit new designers and actively participate in the hiring process

Minimum Qualifications

* 5+ years of professional sound design and sound implementation experience focused on innovative, high-quality, real-time interactive products

* 3+ years experience assembling and managing teams of creative and technical experts with specialties

* Demonstrated skill with strategic decision making and tactical prioritization

* Experience in a fast-paced and quickly evolving environment

* Knowledge of, and interest in, how culture and dynamics create teams

Preferred Qualifications

* Familiarity with studio and location recording, editing, mixing, and mastering

* Experience with coding or advanced scripting for complex sound implementation

* Facility with various management techniques (Agile, OKR, JTBD, etc.)

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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.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.