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Summary:

We are currently seeking a TPM for the Optics, Photonics, and Light Systems team who will work with a world-class group of researchers and engineers. We enabling Meta's product vision through innovation and differentiated technology; Predicting unarticulated needs and reacting to our partners requests, delivering breakthrough technologies.You will establish requirements with internal and external customers, manage program schedules, identify risks and associated mitigation plans, coordinate with other internal teams, and clearly communicate to program stakeholders. We look for technical program managers who have a demonstrated experience and understanding of technical foundations and are motivators, cross-functional relationship builders, and champions for driving the right level of process to ensure smooth and predictable program execution in a productive innovative environment.

Required Skills:

Technical Program Manager - Research Responsibilities:

1. Work with research, engineering, and business teams to set strategy, define roadmaps, program milestones and deliverables

2. Develop and maintain an overall program schedule based on feedback from multiple work streams such as requirements, technical challenges, available resources, and business needs

3. Partner with technical leads to establish program strategy, prioritization and to deliver against OKRs

4. Identify resources needed and work closely with the team leads to maintain full visibility of multiple projects, ensuring resource gaps are addressed efficiently

5. Proactively identify technical, legal, procedural, logistical, and communication needs and issues and drive creative solutions to fix them and manage both technical and programmatic risks

6. Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and research development processes in a quickly-changing environment

7. Engage with cross-functional and external teams to identify constraints, dependencies, and risks/issues, and to recommend action plans to address them

8. Develop and coordinate communication between internal and external teams and partners

9. Report program status, issues, challenges and help needed with all stakeholders, driving best practice execution

10. Building teams, development processes, best practices, and supporting tools to support a growing organization

11. Support travel up to 20% of the time, typically to meet with partners

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

12. BS in Display, Systems Engineering, Imaging Science, Electronics, Optics, or Physics and 7+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager

13. Experience with driving programs in a research environment

14. Project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group technical collaboration experience

15. Experience building novel architectures and systems via partnerships with external industrial and academic partners from inception to delivery

16. Systems architecture application experience in technical domains

17. Knowledge of display and/or optics development including manufacturing processes

18. Organizational experience, including managing cross-team budgets and headcount requests, knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope

19. Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership

20. Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

21. Graduate degree in an engineering or scientific field related to display/optics/imaging systems

22. Experience in project management on optics and display development especially in the consumer market

23. Consumer electronics or optics system engineering management experience, from invention through shipping

24. Multi-team/geographically dispersed team management experience

25. Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers

Public Compensation:

$134,000/year to $196,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

**Industry:** Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].