The role is a Senior Product Designer for wearables at Instagram, based in San Francisco, CA with onsite responsibilities. The position guides the Instagram experience across Meta’s wearables portfolio, emphasizing mobile and shaping on-device interactions, companion app features, and how Instagram is experienced on emerging form factors.
Responsibilities
- Translate broad, conceptual ideas for Instagram on wearables into useful experiences for 2 billion+ users, directing product strategy and innovation across a large organization.
- Define and advance the long-term design vision for Instagram across Meta’s wearables portfolio, including Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Quest, and future devices, crafting end-to-end flows and prototypes that scale to large user bases.
- Own end-to-end wearables mobile design and support display experiences (AR glasses), evolving visual systems for emerging form factors.
- Drive design prioritization and execution across the wearables initiative, maintaining momentum and navigating cross-organizational dependencies to meet tight timelines.
- Present strategic decisions to VPs and Directors, aligning on strategy and securing leadership buy-in.
- Influence alignment on product direction across multiple organizations and partners, balancing competing priorities with diplomacy.
- Act as a key cross-functional IC lead accountable for the wearables design initiative, contributing to workstream operations when needed to unblock the team.
- Provide and solicit feedback to continually raise the bar for wearables design quality, uphold Instagram’s craft standards, and mentor partner teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field and 8+ years of relevant experience.
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at company-scale, leading end-to-end experiences in a large, ambiguous domain.
- Interaction design expertise with a track record of defining and evangelizing how experiences should behave based on user needs, with scalable approaches and prototyping tools to demonstrate interactions.
- Visual design proficiency across typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography, and aesthetics, and how these elements influence product function.
- Strategic product thinking with experience setting product goals, identifying global opportunities, and making decisions grounded in user and business impact.
- Experience presenting work to executives, clearly communicating goals and concepts in concise terms.
Benefits
- Base salary range: USD 201,000 - 278,000 per year
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process
Preferred Qualifications
- Leadership contributions beyond product work that strengthen teams and enhance the work environment.
- Experience implementing responsible and ethical AI practices, including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality reviews.
- Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration, with awareness of emerging AI technologies.
- Ability to integrate AI tools to optimize workflows and drive measurable impact, including efficiency gains and quality improvements.
- Experience aligning work with other industry-leading initiatives across the company to foster collaboration.
- Previous people management experience or demonstrated design leadership across teams delivering premium consumer hardware products.
- Experience designing for small screens, constrained form factors, or wearable devices such as AR glasses, smartwatches, or companion apps.
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 wil
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$201,000/year to $278,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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