This role 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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of professional sound design, text-to-speech voice development, technical sound design, or equivalent experience in AI
• Implementation experience, focused on high-quality sonic experiences
• 7+ years experience assembling and managing teams of creative and technical experts with specialties, including hiring and developing people
• Experience with tuning audio hardware experiences using sound tools and/or DSP
• Experience leading Cross Functional teams and managing multiple vendors
• Experienced 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)
• Experienced in understanding of DSP, audio synthesis, and digital audio concepts and formats
• Scripting or programming experience (Python, C++, JavaScript)
• Experience with AI and generative AI systems (e.g. LLMs), and/or text-to-speech model training
• Familiarity with QA processes, test plans, and bug tracking
• Demonstrated communication skills, and experienced communication to executive stakeholders
• Experience of communicating with and enabling others to drive impact
• Demonstrate experience in collaborative design practice

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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

• Support 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 relationships that lead to impact
• Actively influences the strategy and shaping of the roadmap for Creative Audio AI and sets the approach, direction and goals for the team
• Applied knowledge of domain, business, market, and industry to advance overall team goals
• Help manage resources and headcount 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 innovative 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 broad and welcoming environment across the team, model respectful behavior, and hold team members accountable