Technical Program Manager - Research

We are currently seeking a TPM for the Optics, Photonics, and Light Systems team who will work with a world-class group of researchers and engineers. We enabling Meta's product vision through innovation and differentiated technology; Predicting unarticulated needs and reacting to our partners requests, delivering breakthrough technologies.You will establish requirements with internal and external customers, manage program schedules, identify risks and associated mitigation plans, coordinate with other internal teams, and clearly communicate to program stakeholders. We look for technical program managers who have a demonstrated experience and understanding of technical foundations and are motivators, cross-functional relationship builders, and champions for driving the right level of process to ensure smooth and predictable program execution in a productive innovative environment.

Technical Program Manager - Research Responsibilities:

• Work with research, engineering, and business teams to set strategy, define roadmaps, program milestones and deliverables
• Develop and maintain an overall program schedule based on feedback from multiple work streams such as requirements, technical challenges, available resources, and business needs
• Partner with technical leads to establish program strategy, prioritization and to deliver against OKRs
• Identify resources needed and work closely with the team leads to maintain full visibility of multiple projects, ensuring resource gaps are addressed efficiently
• Proactively identify technical, legal, procedural, logistical, and communication needs and issues and drive creative solutions to fix them and manage both technical and programmatic risks
• Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and research development processes in a quickly-changing environment
• Engage with cross-functional and external teams to identify constraints, dependencies, and risks/issues, and to recommend action plans to address them
• Develop and coordinate communication between internal and external teams and partners
• Report program status, issues, challenges and help needed with all stakeholders, driving best practice execution
• Building teams, development processes, best practices, and supporting tools to support a growing organization
• Support travel up to 20% of the time, typically to meet with partners

• BS in Display, Systems Engineering, Imaging Science, Electronics, Optics, or Physics and 7+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager
• Experience with driving programs in a research environment
• Project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group technical collaboration experience
• Experience building novel architectures and systems via partnerships with external industrial and academic partners from inception to delivery
• Systems architecture application experience in technical domains
• Knowledge of display and/or optics development including manufacturing processes
• Organizational experience, including managing cross-team budgets and headcount requests, knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems

• Experience in project management on optics and display development especially in the consumer market
• Consumer electronics or optics system engineering management experience, from invention through shipping
• Multi-team/geographically dispersed team management experience
• Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers