Creative Audio-AI Voice and Audio Lead

The Creative Audio Organization is a centralized team that touches nearly every product Meta produces, making our team integral to the company. We collaborate with product and design teams across Meta to drive sonic innovation and our mission is to create meaningful experiences that strengthen human connections through the transformative power of audio.The Creative Audio AI Team at Meta is working on pioneering technologies to bring people closer together, our team shares the responsibility of doing it at a global scale through AI. As a centralized team, we play a vital role in AI Audio and Voices at Meta, and we are uniquely positioned to drive company-wide innovation and success.Creative Audio is seeking a Lead to spearhead and support our AI Audio and Voice Team. The Creative Audio AI Design Lead will be collaborating on the strategy, execution and steering of the Creative Audio AI foundations, collaborating with team members and key cross-functional partners to align with Meta's top AI priorities.About the Role:In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of Creative Audio AI strategies and experiences across Meta. You will work closely with our internal teams, cross-functional partners, including product management, design, engineering, and research, to ensure that audio is integrated into the product development process from the outset.

Creative Audio-AI Voice and Audio Lead Responsibilities:

• Lead a small team of AI Leads on Voice and Audio, across multiple projects of increasing dependencies and complexities of high-impact, facilitating career growth, and creating a collaborative atmosphere
• Actively influences the strategy and shaping of the roadmap for Creative Audio AI and sets a approach, direction and goals for the team
• Applied knowledge of domain, business, market, and industry to advance overall team goals
• In collaboration with the Creative Audio leadership, set clear expectations and create a supportive work environment based on support and accountability
• Contribute to strategy on resources against a wide, varied, and fast-evolving portfolio of projects
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate audio into the product development process
• Work with technical sound designers, conversational designers, voice lead, creative coders, engineers, PMs and researchers to develop unique AI audio experiences
• Provide creative and technical direction and guidance to AI leads and creative coders
• Stay up-to-date with AI industry trends and emerging AI technologies
• Represent the AI Audio Team in cross-functional meetings and presentations
• Ensure strategic partnerships are effective with Engineering, Design, and Product Management teams across Meta
• Advocate for the role and value of audio across Meta and in the larger creative community
• Understand the strengths and opportunities on the current team as it grows, and recruit for new roles and actively participate in the hiring process
• Build a collaborative environment across the team, model respectful behaviors, and hold team members accountable
• Foster a collaborative design practice

• 10+ years of professional sound design, including text-to-speech voice development, technical sound design, or equivalent experience in AI
• Implementation experience, focused on high-quality sonic experiences
• 7+ years experience leading teams of creative and technical experts with specialties
• Experience with AI and generative AI systems (e.g. LLMs), and/or text-to-speech model training
• Experience with tuning audio hardware experiences using sound tools and/or DSP
• Experience leading across multiple cross functional partners, projects and managing multiple vendors
• Demonstrated critical listening skills, experience with verifying audio quality on software and hardware with a proven ear for maintaining high quality
• Experience with voice production or audio post production, including casting, recording, voice direction, editing, and mastering
• Proficiency in digital audio workstations and editing tools (Pro Tools and Izotope RX)
• Demonstrated understanding of DSP, audio synthesis, and digital audio concepts and formats
• Scripting or programming experience (Python, C++, JavaScript)
• Familiarity with QA processes, test plans, and bug tracking
• Demonstrated communication skills

• Experience with coding or advanced scripting for complex sound implementation
• Familiarity with studio and location recording, editing, mixing, and mastering
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Experience in advancing AI techniques, including core contributions to open source libraries and frameworks in computer vision
• Experience establishing an Audio team within an established organization
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG methodologies
• Experience with generative sound or music, speech synthesis, NLP, music information retrieval, or digital signal processing