Responsibilities
- Define and champion the long-term industrial design vision and physical design for Meta's consumer hardware portfolio, including AR glasses, VR headsets, and wearable devices
- Lead concept development from early ideation through production, translating human-centered insights into refined, manufacturable products
- Establish design principles, material strategies, and CMF (color, material, finish) direction that unify the aesthetic identity across product lines
- Partner with engineering, product management, and research teams to resolve complex ergonomic, mechanical, and optical integration challenges inherent to wearable and spatial computing devices
- Drive alignment on design direction with executive stakeholders through compelling presentations, physical prototypes, and design rationale documentation
- Mentor and provide design direction to other designers across the organization, elevating craft and raising the quality bar for the entire industrial design function
- Identify and frame ambiguous, long-horizon design problems and develop structured approaches to solving them across multiple concurrent programs
- Collaborate with manufacturing partners and material suppliers to explore novel fabrication techniques and emerging materials relevant to wearable hardware
- Contribute to the evolution of Meta's design process and tooling, including integration of AI-assisted design workflows and rapid prototyping methodologies
- Represent the industrial design perspective in cross-functional forums, ensuring design intent is preserved through engineering, manufacturing, and go-to-market phases
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional industrial design experience with a focus on consumer electronics, wearable technology, or spatial computing devices
- Demonstrated portfolio of shipped consumer hardware products that reflect a high standard of form, ergonomics, and CMF execution
- Experience leading design strategy and creative direction across multiple simultaneous hardware programs at an organizational level
- Proficiency in 3D CAD surfacing tools (such as Alias, Rhino, SolidWorks, Creo) and experience in collaborating with engineering development teams to solve complex wearable or handheld device geometries
- Experience communicating design vision and rationale to leadership through prototypes, renderings, and verbal/written presentations
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing wearable devices, with an understanding of the unique interaction and human factors associated with that category of products
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI-assisted design tools to accelerate concept exploration, form iteration, or workflow efficiency
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience establishing or evolving a product design language system across a family of related consumer hardware products
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Familiarity with advanced manufacturing processes such as plastic injection molding, metal forming/casting, and textile integration
$208,000/year to $289,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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