Product Designer, Wearables

New York, NY | San Francisco, CA

We're looking for a senior Product Designer to lead the Instagram experience across Meta's wearables portfolio, specifically focused on mobile—defining how one of the world's most-used platforms shows up across devices. This is a foundational role at the intersection of a platform used by billions and hardware that's changing how people capture and experience the world. You'll shape how Instagram extends into new contexts—on-device experiences, companion app features, and the seamless connections between them. You won't just be designing features for existing devices; you'll be defining what Instagram means on form factors that don't have strongly established patterns yet. The ideal candidate has exceptional product sense and design craft, thrives in ambiguity, and has the leadership to steer momentum across many teams and orgs. You're genuinely energized by the creative challenge of designing for emerging technology—and you bring the conviction and storytelling skill to rally others around a bold direction.

Responsibilities

  • Take broad, conceptual ideas for Instagram on wearables and turn them into useful, valuable experiences for our 2 billion+ users, driving product strategy and innovation across a large organization
  • Define and drive the long-term design vision for Instagram across Meta's wearables portfolio (Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Quest, and future devices), designing innovative concepts through the craft of end-to-end flows that impact broad sets of users at scale while using the appropriate prototyping tools
  • Own end-to-end wearables mobile design and support display experiences (AR glasses), designing new experiences and layouts that evolve visual systems for emerging form factors
  • Drive design prioritization and execution across the wearables initiative, keeping the team's momentum to meet accelerated timelines while navigating complex, cross-organizational dependencies
  • Play an active role in communicating strategic decisions around the future direction of Instagram on wearables, interfacing directly with VPs and Directors to present work, align on strategy, and build leadership buy-in
  • Influence and drive alignment on product direction across multiple organizations and extended cross-functional partners, navigating competing priorities with diplomacy
  • Act as a key cross-functional IC lead accountable for the success of the wearables design initiative, leaning into workstream-level operations and processes when needed to unblock the team
  • Give and solicit feedback from the broader product team in order to continually raise the bar for wearables design quality, setting and maintaining Instagram's standard of craft excellence while mentoring and coaching partner teams

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field and 8+ years of experience in relevant field
  • 8+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at company-level scale, leading the end-to-end experience within a large-scale, ambiguous domain
  • Interaction design experience with knowledge defining and evangelizing how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this innovation will scale and examples of the use of appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular interaction will work
  • Visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
  • Strategic product thinking with the experience developing product goals, identifying opportunities in a global market, and making decisions based on the impact to people and the company
  • Experience representing work to executives, clearly and succinctly communicating the goals and concepts

Preferred Qualifications

  • Examples of leadership in non-product dimensions that have made a team stronger and positively impacted the work environment
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience connecting your work with other industry-leading related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration
  • Previous people management experience or demonstrated design leadership across teams shipping premium consumer hardware products
  • Experience designing for small screens, constrained form factors, or wearable devices (e.g., AR glasses, smartwatches, companion apps)

Compensation

$201,000/year to $278,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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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.

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