Interaction/UX Sound Designer - FoA

MetaMenlo Park, CaliforniaOn-siteFull-timeStaff, 8–12 yearsListed 4 hours ago

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About this role

We're on a mission to improve how people interact with technology through thoughtful sound design. As an Interaction/UX Sound Designer at Meta, you'll have the opportunity to shape the sonic landscape of products like Facebook and create immersive audio experiences across Meta products.

As a key member of our Creative Audio team, you'll be responsible for designing and delivering innovative UI/UX sounds that bring our products to life, from our Wearables hardware to Meta's family of apps. Your expertise will help create intuitive and engaging audio experiences for our users.

You'll be part of a multidisciplinary team of highly-skilled creatives, engineers, and innovators who are passionate about advancing audio design. Creative Audio has a track record of creating sonic experiences, including Meta Quest, Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses, Messenger, and Instagram. We're looking for someone who shares our passion for innovation and is eager to collaborate with our team to shape the future of audio experiences.

Responsibilities

Autonomously drive complex interaction sound design and haptics projects from discovery to completion
Create unique, memorable, and landmark sonic experiences for the 3+ billion people who use Meta technologies
Use your proven understanding of UI/UX sound design to define and distill broad concepts into actionable deliverables
Create and adhere to sound design systems, audio design standards, guidelines, and best practices
Act as a source of truth for sound design, design standards, best practices, and implementation guidelines
Execute in a fast-paced and highly fluid environment
Collaborate closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure seamless systems alignment, cohesive audio experiences, and successful project delivery
Influence key business decisions, leveraging clear data-driven decision making
Influence and drive sound design quality in order to maintain quality and leverage existing resources for product consistency and efficiency
Develop and maintain a consistent sonic brand identity across key Meta touchpoints

Qualifications

8+ years of experience creating UI sonic experiences for products in mobile, hardware, and/or non-traditional or immersive environments
Understanding of Design Systems and system-level thinking
Experience creating bespoke sound design for high-profile products
Experience with sound design synthesis and foley recording
Proficiency in Pro Tools and/or other professional DAWs
Understanding of human-centered design
Experience leading, managing, scoping, and communicating project milestones and deliverables
Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues, with a systematic approach to identifying and addressing sound design and implementation problems
Understanding of haptics design patterns and principles
Experience communicating with technical teams and software developers to ensure seamless and efficient sound implementation
Experience in creating and presenting in digital design tools, such as Figma Experience creating audio for system-level software development
Understanding of programming and technical sound paradigms in VR, AR, or other immersive mediums
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Experience designing UI/UX audio specifically for AR and VR experiences
Video editing skills (Premiere Pro, Final Cut, Avid, etc.)
Ability to mix in a variety of formats, including spatial audio