Meta AR/VR Job | Technical Art Manager, Avatars
Job（岗位）: Technical Art Manager, Avatars
Type（岗位类型）: Design
Citys（岗位城市）: London, UK
Date（发布日期）: 2023-7-28
Summary（岗位介绍）
The Meta Reality Lab 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. As a part of that mission, we are pioneering the future of avatars in social experiences and are looking for a tech art leader to join our team.
The Technical Art Manager will build, manage and mentor a multidisciplinary team of tech art leads and tech artists who are building cutting edge art pipelines and novel character technologies. You will be at the forefront of building an avatar system that seamlessly works across both real-time and offline surfaces including performing under the demands of high-end VR. It will also be required to scale to serve the billions of users that use Meta products.
Join a cross functional team of software engineers, artists, product managers and designers who are passionate about creating a cutting-edge avatar experience that can provide the endless choices our users want to represent themselves in the Metaverse.
Qualifications（岗位要求）
Extensive experience managing technical artists in games, film or other real-time development
Effective communication and presentation skills
Interest in empowering teams to produce results
Experience with production toolsets and knowledge of 3D Art Tools (e.g. Shotgun, Jira, Trello, Maya, Houdini, Blender, etc.)
Experience having supported 3D asset content creation in traditional or unique pipelines through tool development and/or character development
Communication and leadership skills to support a team working in an ambiguous environment
Technical art and problem-solving skills – understand the underlying technology and tools necessary to power an advanced avatar system
Collaboration skills with an experience explaining complex concepts in an easy to understand way
Proven track record of professional content development, including shipping one or more products using digital content creation tools
Experience with game optimization techniques.
Experience with Python, C#, or C++ in a 3D application or game engine
Description（岗位职责）
Support a team of technical artists and technical leads, providing guidance, feedback, education, performance feedback, coaching and mentoring
Identify, recruit, interview and hire technical artists
Provide creative and technical leadership for innovative digital content solutions
Proactively engage with PM, Designer, Eng & Art leads to define art pipeline, workflow and technical avatar product needs.
Support artists in building tools for more efficient workflow.
Learn constantly, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of problem solving in a fast-paced environment
Deliver, request, and accept constructive feedback with a positive attitude with objective and accurate feedback
Educate team members and partners on digital content best practices and techniques
Identify and prioritize digital content needs across project proposals
Additional Requirements（额外要求）
Knowledge of emerging technologies
Experience in game engines such as Unreal or Unity
Experience working with Virtual Reality.
Familiar with popular open source projects like USD
