What are the responsibilities and job description for the Game Design Manager position at META?
The Horizon Team at Meta is building a social User Generated Content (UGC) platform where people can find people, places, and things they care about a Metaverse without constraints where people have freedom of identity and expression and can experience living virtual worlds that could not exist in the real world. Our vision is to build a global-scale UGC platform where the world’s creators, performers, and more will be able to create their place, and enable their communities to connect, engage and play in all kinds of ways. We are driven to create a safe and compelling metaverse for never-ending exploration our journey is just the beginning, come join us.
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Meta is seeking an experienced Game Design Manager to join our team. As a Game Design Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of game designers to prototype, design, and ship first-party experiences across Horizon Worlds. You will work closely with cross-functional partners in design, art, engineering, product management, and other disciplines to guide the team to explore innovative new experiences, layouts, mechanics, and systems that facilitate and enable social connections and utilize best practices from VR, MR, desktop, and mobile.
In this role, you'll be expected to utilize your full range of people management skills, product strategy, and game design skills to ensure our products and features are valuable for people and at the highest level of craft and execution. You will also be responsible for continuing to grow our multidisciplinary, diverse game design team.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage a talented, diverse, inclusive team of game designers that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skill sets.
- Responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritization, and building a culture of design excellence.
- Lead and oversee the implementation of the user experience from product conception to launch - as well as post-launch design support, while partnering with PMs, engineers, researchers, creatives, content strategists, and QA.
- Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Meta’s products, working with the Creative and Product teams.
- Effectively communicate your team's product goals (both within the team and outside the team), and connect related projects across the company so that problems or joint decisions can be resolved quickly.
- Design end-to-end experiences with satisfying and novel core mechanics, loops, level layouts, and systems.
- Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also taking on mentorship.
- Advocate for game design and help us build a great, welcoming, and inclusive game design community within Reality Labs and throughout Meta.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action
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, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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