Product Design Prototyper, Human Interface
New York, NYJob$170–236K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Product Design Prototyper will research, design, and prototype interactions for Meta’s Reality Labs team, working with engineers and researchers. The role focuses on wearables, VR, and mobile technology, with opportunities to explore areas such as haptics, tracking, displays, computer vision, audio, and perceptual psychology. The prototyper will help shape product experiences and contribute to product strategy.
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Summary:
As a Product Design Prototyper on the Reality Labs team, you will be working on the cutting edge of Wearables, VR, and Mobile technology. With our team, you will explore, prototype, and build experiences that define the future of how people interact. Join a multidisciplinary team experimenting with bold ideas in areas including optics, haptics, tracking, displays, computer vision, user experience, audio, and perceptual psychology. Work alongside Scientists, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and Software Engineers to create the technology that makes new technology pervasive and universal. Join us as we develop novel technologies that shape how people interact with the world around them.You'll be responsible for researching, designing and prototyping interactions for Meta. You'll work closely with engineers and researchers at Reality Labs.
Required Skills:
Product Design Prototyper, Human Interface Responsibilities:
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Define and synthesize user requirements.
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Help establish design processes to align cross-functional teams.
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Contribute to strategic decisions, working with engineering and research teams.
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Design and create user experience prototypes and individually contribute to the feature set.
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Work with user research to user test and iterate on the prototypes.
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Give and solicit feedback from others to raise the quality and craftsmanship of the product.
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Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers and content designers, overseeing the implementation of the user experience.
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Quickly solve issues with your cross-functional leads.
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Clearly articulate design decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders.
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Help build product strategy.
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Advocate for product design within Facebook.
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Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field
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6+ years of experience in shipping software products
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Design skills and the proven experience to lead in cross-functional environments
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Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods for user research
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Experience to think at a high level about product strategy and vision
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Portfolio featuring examples of interaction and visual work
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience coding in Unity with C# or C++
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Experience working with researchers
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Experience with building prototypes in short timeframes
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Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
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Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
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Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
Public Compensation:
$170,000/year to $236,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
Equal Opportunity:
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 1,802 open Product Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$170–236K/yr
- New York median$160–214K/yr286 salary ranges
- US median$150–216K/yr1,377 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $203K, is 10% above the New York median midpoint ($185K) — in the middle half of Product Designer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 371 open Product Designer jobs in New York and 1,802 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Meta (this employer)18 open
- Amazon14 open
- Kelly Services8 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Product Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,413 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 452 of the 1,802 open Product Designer jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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