Meta AR/VR Job | Technical Program Manager - Digital Human Research
Job（岗位）: Technical Program Manager - Digital Human Research
Type（岗位类型）: Program Management
Citys（岗位城市）: Sausalito, CA
Date（发布日期）: Before 2021-12-14
Summary（岗位介绍）
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is dedicated to research and development required to deliver Facebook's vision of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences that ship in five to ten years. As a Technical Program Manager for Digital Human Research, your job will be figuring out what we need to do to build it. You'll be a critical member of a multi-disciplinary team contributing to our efforts to gain a scientific understanding of the next generation of virtual humans, biomechanics, neuroscience, motion analysis, simulations, computer vision, and whatever else we dream up to create the ultimate AR/VR experiences.
As a Technical Program Manager for Digital Human Research, your role will be to work with the multidisciplinary research and engineering team to drive, plan, coordinate, communicate, digital human research projects, and cross-functional interactions. To be successful, you will be eliminating barriers to your team's success and ensuring the big picture stays in focus while delving into the details on specific issues. Ideal team members are adaptable and resilient, eager to attack unfamiliar problems with curiosity and tenacity, and able to use a light touch to find ways to help the team be more efficient.
Qualifications（岗位要求）
5+ years of industry technical program management experience
Experience defining and driving project progress and schedules
Communication, cross-functional collaboration, relationship building, and leadership skills, with experience motivating people and resolving conflicts
Organizational, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills, with attention to detail
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
Description（岗位职责）
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
Additional Requirements（额外要求）
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
Experience managing budgets
