What types of professions are required to build the Metaverse? The 5 most requested professional figures

Now that the Metaverse is here to stay, companies have been scrambling for some time to hire professionals tasked with creating a virtual reality of it that is as immersive as possible: Nike, Amazon, Roblox, Microsoft, Facebook, Bitfury and accounting firm KPMG have all posted ads on major recruiting platforms, while leading universities are trying to keep up with the galloping evolution of the technology by offering courses such as the Blockchain Strategy degree offered by Oxford and the Bitcoin and Blockchain Program at Bocconi University. Nike hired two "virtual item designers" to "play a key role in redefining the new digital world," Roblox had 268 ads under its belt simultaneously "to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users," while Meta (as Facebook's parent company is now called), is looking for several metaverse-related figures including Game Designer, Product Marketing Manager and Content Strategist for Horizon Media.

Jobs related to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are in high demand, with demand rising 1,400% already in 2019, and, according to a new State of Software report, companies will need thousands of software engineers with AR/VR skills in the next decade to develop the next computing platform. Through the technical recruiter, the member of a company's human resources department tasked with assessing the skills and knowledge of a potential candidate who wants to join the company's workforce, small and large companies alike are desperately looking for professional figures that are extremely rare and in some cases don't even exist yet. Here is a list of the 5 most in-demand jobs in the "Metaverse to come":

Data protection officer

With the development of technologies progressively revolutionizing the way next-generation users connect and interact with each other, technology and gaming companies will need to manage massive amounts of data and information that would go far beyond web searches. Therefore, companies need software engineers with experience in large-scale systems implementation, networking and data storage, artificial intelligence, and interface design.