Product Design Internship, Meta
Social metaverse company
Job no longer available
Social metaverse company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
Role
Who you are
- You will be expected to utilize your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills, and you will own the experience for a wide area of the Facebook product
- A portfolio featuring examples of interaction design work
- Currently enrolled in Bachelor’s or Masters degree in design or related design field
- Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build')
- Proven ability to execute on visual and interaction details
- Communication skills – you should be able to articulate your design decisions
Desirable
- Previous design internship experience
- Experience with front-end programming
What the job involves
- As a Product Design Intern, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next feature of News Feed to tweaking pixels right before launch
- Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our billion plus users
- Design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant
- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality
- Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch (and then some)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In 2021, Facebook announced its name change to Meta and that this holding company would also encompass its apps, including Instagram and Whatsapp. As part of the announcement, Zuckerberg outlined his virtual reality vision and his plans to build the “metaverse”.
Since then, the strategy around building the metaverse has remained relatively unclear. There are signs of early success, with the company’s consumer VR headset becoming the most popular in the market. However, long term growth will depend on Meta’s ability to bring VR and augmented reality tools to the mainstream.
Zuckerberg has confirmed that it will be Whatsapp’s business messaging services and messenger that will be driving Meta’s growth for the foreseeable future. The company is focused on monetising these products and improving their ease of use for enterprise customers.
Focusing on more immediate growth opportunities will be key for Meta as they have faced substantial challenges recently. TikTok continues to attract young users away from Facebook and Instagram (two key revenue streams for the business), and they had to make the first mass layoffs in Meta’s history.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2011
$1.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2009
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance to keep you and your family healthy
- Medical second opinion service to make sure you get the best care
- Reimbursement for eligible expenses that support physical, mental and financial well-being and family care
- Programs that help with autism care, cancer care and transgender services
- Paid leave for new parents
- Support for family planning, including adoption and surrogacy assistance, and baby cash to help with newborn expenses
- Flexible spending account for dependent care so you can pay care expenses for a child or parent with pre-tax money
- Personalized assistance navigating all of the information, resources and programs available to support your family care needs
- Competitive retirement plan
- Life insurance and survivor support
- Equity awards
- Complimentary access to TurboTax
- On-site or video tax consultations to answer your questions
- Legal support through Hyatt Legal for you and/or your parents if you need it
- Join an employee club—or create your own and build meaningful connections with other people who work at Meta
- Join an employee resource group and be a catalyst for ensuring a fully inclusive environment that provides opportunities for everyone to contribute to Meta's success
- Generous paid time off
- A 30-day paid break every five years
- Leave programs so that you can take the time you need to care for yourself or your family when you need it
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Mark Zuckerberg
(CEO & Chairman)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and originally founded Meta as Facebook in 2004. Also the co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is leveraging technology to help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges.
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