Perceptual Audio Evaluation Manager

The Wearables Audio Technology Team (WATT) is looking for an experienced leader to manage a team of researchers and engineers in Perceptual Audio Evaluation (PAE) within Audio Experience Team (AXT). In this role you will be leading domain experts, influencing within WATT, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver audio quality and features in the next generation of Meta devices. The PAE team supports development of new technologies, features, and products in collaboration with audio labs, user experience researchers, algorithm developers, audio hardware engineers, product managers, and other professionals across the company. Our success is based on a data driven development process, combining objective measurements with perceptual audio evaluation to guide trade-offs with focus on customer experience. The Perceptual Audio Evaluation Manager will play a critical role in developing leading class audio performance for all Reality Labs products.

Responsibilities

Manage the team's projects, processes, and resourcing

• Allocate and balance resources (including people, budget, skills) to ensure project timelines, goals, and impact are met
• Understand how to load balance and anticipate additional resource needs. Identify team resourcing needs and present potential solutions
• Lead Engineers and Researchers, develop and mentor less experienced team members
• Leverage your technical knowledge, guiding the team to make informed decisions between implementing complex studies and relying on domain expertise
• Identify areas for improvement in processes, tools, quality, and overall productivity. Develop and drive strategies to increase functional efficiency
• Assist product and technology development teams with audio performance context. Advise product level trade off decisions in collaboration with system / audio PM
• Contribute in setting device / feature success metrics and communicating cost / schedule / quality risk vs. customer benefit
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the engineering team as well as the organization
• Identify, communicate, and drive medium term strategic objectives

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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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