Product Designer - RealTime AI

Product Designer - RealTime AI at Meta

At Meta, we are building Personal Superintelligence to empower every individual with greater agency. The RealTime AI team within MSL is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead the user experience of embodied, AI-powered agents. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of high-end craft and machine learning research. You will be responsible for translating complex AI capabilities into intuitive, high-fidelity human experiences, ensuring our "RealTime" vision is both technically feasible and resonant with users.

Product Designer - RealTime AI Responsibilities:

• Drive the Interaction Framework for Embodied AI: Establish and evolve the design patterns for real-time AI. You will define how AI surfaces across mobile, glasses, and future form factors, balancing proactive assistance with user control.
• Execute Multimodal Design Strategy: Lead the development of scalable interaction systems that integrate voice, vision, and gesture. You will design the feedback loops that make AI feel responsive, low-latency, and contextually aware.
• Define Behavioral UI: Beyond visual components, you will define the "personality" and pacing of AI interactions. You’ll ensure these agents feel human-centric, reliable, and helpful rather than intrusive.
• Strategic XFN Partnership: Partner with Product, ML Research, and Engineering to influence model behavior. You will use design as a lens to help the team prioritize data collection and model tuning based on UX needs (e.g., latency vs. accuracy).
• Bridge Research and Product: Drive high-velocity prototyping for "zero-to-one" AI features. You will translate raw research (like live world-understanding) into production-ready product visions for the Family of Apps and Reality Labs.
• Design Leadership & Mentorship: Serve as a pillar of the MSL design community. You will unblock complex design challenges for the team, mentor L5/L6 designers, and raise the collective "quality bar" for AI design within the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Advanced Craft & Systems Thinking: 8-10+ years of experience in product design or creative direction, with a portfolio showcasing the experience solving complex, systems-level problems.
• AI/ML Fluency: Demonstrated experience designing for non-deterministic systems. You understand prompting, model constraints, and how to design for "graceful failure" in AI.
• Strategic Autonomy: Proven track record of navigating extreme ambiguity and driving projects from concept to execution with minimal guidance.
• Prototyping: Proficiency in Figma and a high degree of experience with AI-assisted coding or prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Framer, or similar) to demonstrate motion and interaction.
• Human-Centric Approach: A history of using research and signals to balance technical capabilities with human wellbeing and user agency.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Conversational UX Experience: Specific experience building digital assistants, chatbots, or virtual beings.
• Cross-Pillar Impact: Experience driving design standards or initiatives that have been adopted across multiple product teams or organizations.
• High-Velocity Shipping: Experience operating in "startup-style" environments within larger companies, shipping quickly under technical constraints.
• Persuasive Communication: Experience representing design at the leadership level (VP/Director), articulating the "why" behind complex design bets.

Key skills/competency

• Product Design
• AI/ML UX
• Systems Thinking
• Multimodal Interaction
• Prototyping (Figma, AI tools)
• User Research
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Design Leadership
• Strategic Autonomy
• Conversational UX