About the Role
Meta is seeking a Strategic Initiatives Lead to support the Partnerships team. This role involves operationalizing high-priority strategic programs, focusing on scaling glasses seeding strategy across partners, tentpole moments, and priority verticals in a fast-moving, highly matrixed environment. You will translate leadership priorities into scalable playbooks, durable partner frameworks, and measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Set and drive priorities and operating cadence to deliver against partnership and seeding objectives.
- Own the strategic seeding roadmap, with an immediate focus on operationalizing and scaling the glasses seeding program across regions, verticals, and tentpole events.
- Design, pilot, and scale program models (playbooks, governance, toolkits) that enable repeatable execution and partner activation at scale.
- Build and manage relationships with internal leadership and cross-functional partners (e.g., Product, Hardware, Marketing, Comms, Legal, Policy) to align on strategy and unlock execution capacity.
- Train colleagues across XFNs on glasses onboarding tactics to ensure a successful seeding experience for partners.
- Develop and maintain external partner frameworks that support seeding logistics and tracking across creators, athletes, public figures, and institutional partners.
- Create concise executive-ready materials (briefs, decision memos, talking points) to support rapid decision-making and leadership alignment.
- Act as a nimble operator, shifting between strategic planning and hands-on execution as priorities evolve.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in strategic programs, partnerships, operations, management consulting, or executive-level program leadership.
- Experience building and scaling programs into repeatable, measurable operations.
- Proven ability to influence and execute with cross-functional stakeholders in ambiguous, highly matrixed environments.
- Experience translating complex topics into clear, executive-ready narratives for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience).
Skills
- AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration)
- Staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Partnerships
- Media
- Sports
- Entertainment
- Creator ecosystems
- Improving operating cadence and execution at scale across multiple markets or regions
- Implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Integrating AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Operationalizing hardware or product seeding programs with external partners
- Leveraging AI tools to streamline workflows and improve program effectiveness
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience)
Salary/Compensations
- $193,000/year to $269,000/year
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
