Art Lead, Generative AI

RL is currently seeking an Art Lead to join our art team to help set the vision and ensure artistic quality for a range of AI assisted and powered products. In this role, you will collaborate with Product Managers, Technical Artists, Engineers, and other partners to drive innovation and create groundbreaking experiences. As an art lead, you will be hands-on, working with teams and production partners to influence product roadmap, define aesthetics, gain alignment and ensure results across stakeholders.Art Lead, Generative AI Responsibilities

• Create immersive and interactive 3D experiences that showcase the functionalities of our GenAI technology.
• Develop innovative designs and prototypes using various real-time engines, including AI tooling, to bring creative visions to life.
• Collaborate with product partners to balance technical constraints with creative vision, ensuring that experiences are both feasible and impactful.
• Work with PM’s to define product goals and milestones to partner with art and engineering teams to help create GenAI experiences and tooling.
• Define GenAI art quality standards, lead the production artwork.
• Coordinate creative and performance tradeoffs to deliver performant experiences at necessary quality levels, leveraging the features of our in-house engine.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience developing organic and inorganic assets in large scale real-time products.
• Demonstrated experience of in-depth understanding of various machine learning and generative AI models, and how it empowers real-time asset creation.
• Proven knowledge of art and visual design principles and real-time techniques relating to scalable asset pipelines.
• In-depth experience utilizing at least two major commercial real-time engines.
• Proficient in industry standard art tools such as Photoshop, Maya, Zbrush, or similar DCC packages.
• Demonstrated experience in procedural asset generation in real-time engines.
• Portfolio demonstrating a keen interest in games and/or VR.
• Experience in managing ambiguity and change, be flexible with new information or goals and set a positive example through tough challenges.
• Proven organizational skills with the experience to manage multiple projects, set priorities, and meet deadlines and expectations.
• Experience leading and pitching innovative projects and collaborating with leadership teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills in making informed creative decisions.
• Experience working with custom, in-house real-time engines.
• Experience in balancing innovation with execution and navigate complex stakeholder relationships.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines to turn concepts into shipped products.
• Proven experience to define and maintain art quality across multiple platforms and surfaces.
• Experience scaling asset development through OpenUSD composition a plus.
• Experience developing modular asset creation pipelines is a plus.
• Real-time VR development experience.

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. 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 will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$149,000/year to $205,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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