Job Summary
Job Description
As an Art Director for Oculus Publishing, you will work with external game developers to ensure high visual quality for XR game titles and promotional materials. Your responsibilities include contributing to milestone and business reviews, greenlight decision-making, and defining visual best practices. You will collaborate with developer support teams and deliver a successful slate of games. This role involves influencing the in-game and marketing art direction, providing feedback, and contributing to the growth of external teams. You will not be leading the visual design of your own single title, but rather being a critical stakeholder on several key titles and contributing to the growth of external teams that are leading the XR industry. This also includes a bonus, equity, and benefits.
Must have:
- 10+ years of video game development experience
- Shipped at least three game titles in an art role
- Experience with character and environment art
- Knowledge of data-driven approaches to art decisions
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Good to have:
- Shipped at least one XR title as art lead
- Experience in evaluating milestone deliveries
- Experience presenting at Greenlight gate meetings
Perks:
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
5 skills required
Job Details
As a key member of the Oculus Publishing team in Reality Labs, you will work closely with external development partners to inform the in-game and marketing art direction of a handful of large XR game titles, and contribute feedback and recommendations on the visual design of several dozen smaller titles. Reporting to the Director of Oculus Publishing, you will positively inflect external titles primarily through influence built through close partnership with key teams, expertly enhancing the creative ideas of our partners with feedback and data. You should welcome the tradeoff of not leading the visual design of your own single title, but rather being a critical stakeholder on several key titles and contributing to the growth of external teams that are leading the XR industry.
Art Director - Oculus Publishing Responsibilities
- Work with external game developers to drive high visual quality for titles and promotional materials
- Contribute to milestone and business reviews for in development titles
- Contribute to greenlight decision making on a pipeline of funded content
- Collaborate with developer support teams to define visual best practices for XR games
- Deliver a successful slate of games in partnership with other leads of the Oculus Publishing group
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in video game development
- Shipped at least three game titles in an art role
- Shipped at least one game title in an Art Director or equivalent role (leading the art pillar) for a 20+ person development team
- High level of expertise in character and environment art, and history of working with UI, VFX, lighting, post-production elements, and marketing visuals such as logos, key art, and trailers
- Knowledge of best practices in using Games User Research and other data driven approaches to inform both in-game and Marketing Art decisions
- Familiarity with the VR content ecosystem
- Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Shipped at least one XR title as lead of the art discipline
- Shipped multiple titles leading the art discipline for development teams of at least 20 people
- Experience evaluating milestone deliveries in art design
- Experience presenting at Greenlight gate meetings and providing recommendations on whether to proceed from Pre-Production to Production
- Proven experience contributing to art direction in a consulting role, a Publishing Art Director role, or intra-studio feedback structures, including but not limited to environment and character art feedback with 2D paint-overs
- Demonstrated expertise in Technical Art discipline is a plus
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About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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About The Company
The Oculus team at Facebook lets people experience anything, anywhere, with anyone through world-class VR hardware and software. With global departments dedicated to VR research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more, Oculus is committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation.
The Oculus suite of hardware currently includes: Rift, our high-end PC VR headset; Touch controllers, to bring your hands into virtual reality; and Gear VR, to bring the magic with you wherever you are—all powered by the Oculus Platform. Since being founded in 2012—and furthered through our acquisition by Facebook in 2014—Oculus has grown from the idea of a single headset to multiple headsets, a powerful platform, and a thriving ecosystem.
Our developer community has built nearly a thousand games, apps, and experiences, all available on the Oculus Store. As we continue to grow the possibilities of the technology, we’re partnering with communities and nonprofits from around the world to drive social change and foster a positive impact. VR’s potential to connect the world is immense—and we’re just getting started.
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