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Art Manager

2 Weeks ago • 5-12 Years • Technical Art

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Summary

The Art Manager will lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of artists and art leads within Meta's Avatars Art group, focused on social virtual and augmented reality applications. Responsibilities include driving team growth and project prioritization, building partnerships, communicating the value of art to stakeholders, defining art pipelines and components, supporting the creative vision, making staffing decisions, and building a diverse and inclusive environment. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience managing artists and developing character-based products in game development or related fields, along with expertise in art pipeline management, operational process improvement, talent recruitment, and budget management.

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unity

budget-management

rendering

forecasting-budgeting

Must have:

Lead & mentor art teams
Manage art pipelines & vendor assets
Drive operational process change
Recruit, nurture, & grow talent
Budget & performance tracking
Excellent communication skills

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

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The Avatars Art group brings together experts to pioneer the future of social virtual and augmented reality applications, and we are looking for an experienced leader in art management.

Art Manager Responsibilities

Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of Artists and Art Leads

Drive progress at people and project-facing levels by supporting team growth and prioritization, team nurturing, building new partnerships, and more.

Become a trusted partner to product stakeholders and executive leadership by communicating and demonstrating the value of art, and by delivering insights that lead to demonstrable business value.

Effectively influence key partner leaders to gain alignment in prioritization, resourcing, and budgeting.

Engage with PMs, Designers and Engineers & Art Leads to define the art pipelines and components, scope and goals for key features within our various projects

Support the creative vision by communicating with executive leadership, and championing the team’s needs to build a world-leading avatar system.

Provide thought-leadership in establishing, implementing, and improving direction, goals, and processes for executing both near and long-term vision.

Make staffing decisions based on business priorities, both short-term and long-term, as well as team strengths and motivation.

Build a diverse and an inclusive environment across the team, modeling inclusive behaviors

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years experience directly managing full-time artists, along with 7+ years developing and shipping character-based products in a game development, real-time rendering, or related technical environment.

Demonstrated experience to manage the development, maintenance and documentation of art pipelines and vendor based asset creation

Experience driving changes in operational processes and aligning teams to a shared vision by solving conflicts and misalignments.

Demonstrated experience to recruit, nurture, and grow talent

Experience with roadmapping, budget management, and financial/performance tracking

Interest in supporting ICs and other managers to produce a collaborative environment, where individuals bring in their best to produce results.

Proven communication, presentation and diplomatic skills

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Locations

Data Center

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.

$149,000/year to $205,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about at Meta.

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$149.0K - $205.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$177.0K/yr avg.

Burlingame, California, United States