Head of Creative Studio at VRChat

Join the VRChat team!

We are building the future of immersive, user-generated worlds, where anyone, anywhere, can connect, play, explore, and express themselves. We are seeking a Head of Creative Studio to lead VRChat’s live operations Events and Content pipeline. This role involves stewarding our regular content drops and event cadences with speed, while maintaining a high standard for creative quality.

This is a highly collaborative leadership role. You will partner closely with our Director of Design and Art Team Manager, who have established a foundational direction for our creative strategy. We are looking for someone who can own and advance our creative quality bar, bringing clarity, taste, and strong production leadership to ensure the work is scalable and consistently shippable. You will manage our internal art team, work alongside our production leads, and collaborate with engineering to maintain a healthy content pipeline, ensuring clear briefs, strong reviews, smooth handoffs, and predictable delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Own and operate the live operations Events and Content pipeline end-to-end, including planning, briefing, production tracking, reviews, integration coordination, and release readiness.
• Steward and elevate VRChat’s creative strategy for live operations content, upholding a high bar while evolving the system with the team over time (style continuity, quality, and cohesion).
• Partner with the Director of Design and Art Team Manager to align on creative direction, review norms, and quality standards, ensuring the team has clear principles and consistent decision-making.
• Lead and support our internal art team with a collaborative, feedback-forward culture, emphasizing clear goals, strong critique habits, and sustainable output.
• Manage external studio collaborations to feel like an extension of the internal team, ensuring strong briefs, fast and respectful feedback loops, clear acceptance criteria, and healthy partner relationships.
• Translate creative goals into shippable reality by working closely with engineering on performance constraints, asset requirements, and integration needs.
• Reduce rework and increase throughput by improving documentation, templates, review checklists, and lightweight processes.
• Make tradeoffs visible, keep stakeholders aligned, and drive clarity to empower our creative teams to perform their best work.

Who You Are

• You have 8+ years in game development or real-time content production, with significant experience shipping ongoing content (live operations, events, seasonal drops, or frequent updates).
• You have operated in environments where success relies on collaboration and influence, rather than top-down hierarchy. You can bring structure, alignment, and momentum without overwhelming teams.
• You possess strong experience working with external studios and vendors, and you know how to achieve excellent results through clear briefs, thoughtful feedback, and reliable delivery.
• You demonstrate excellent creative judgment, but you do not rely solely on taste. You build systems that help teams make sound decisions consistently.
• You are comfortable partnering with engineering and production to ensure assets are performant and shippable, and you can translate constraints into actionable guidance for the team.
• You are low-ego and high-agency, characterized by listening, aligning, communicating clearly, and driving execution.

Bonus Points

• Experience scaling an art/content pipeline across multiple platforms.
• Experience evolving outsourcing strategy (vendor selection, capacity planning, quality frameworks).
• Familiarity with User-Generated Content (UGC) ecosystems, social platforms, or creator-driven content economies.
• Comfort with production tooling (Jira, Linear, etc.) and operational metrics (rework rate, cycle time, acceptance rate).

Benefits

• Work from Anywhere: VRChat is a 100% remote company, offering flexible working hours combined with core hours to support real-time collaboration.
• Health Insurance: Health benefits for U.S. and Canadian employees.
• 401(k) / Retirement Plans: 401K (U.S.) and RRSP (Canada) retirement plans.
• Equity/Stock Options: Stock options.
• Unlimited PTO: Unlimited/flexible vacation policy.
• Paid Parental Leave: Paid parental leave.
• Generous holiday schedule.

VRChat is an equal-opportunity employer, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds. VRChat fosters a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where anyone can contribute to ongoing projects or roadmap direction. If you are a passionate team player eager to make an impact on a dynamic team, we encourage you to apply. All job offers are subject to satisfactory referencing and background checks.