Sound Design Manager
Description
- 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 Meta to incorporate innovative audio experiences into our family of products
- Advocate for the role and value of sound across Meta 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
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional sound design and sound implementation experience focused on innovative, high-quality — preferably real-time interactive — products
- 3+ years of experience assembling and managing teams of creative and technical experts with wide ranges of specialties
- Demonstrated skill with strategic decision making and tactical prioritization
- Experience thriving in a fast-paced and quickly evolving environment
- Knowledge of, and interest in, how culture and dynamics create teams
- Willingness for learning, growth, and pushing the envelope
- Familiarity with studio and location recording, editing, mixing, and mastering
- Audio spatialization in a VR game or experience
- Experience with audio middleware such as Wwise or FMOD
- Experience with game engines - Unreal and Unity
- Experience with various management techniques (Agile, OKR, JTBD, etc.)
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