Head of Talent at VRChat

About VRChat

VRChat is pioneering a first-of-its-kind, game-changing platform that offers an endless collection of social VR experiences, empowering its robust community to bring imagination to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device. With over 250,000 growing worlds, VRChat has secured $100M in funding from notable investors including Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC. We are fortunate to have a team composed of individuals from industry leaders such as Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga, and TikTok. We invite you to join our mission!

Job Overview

VRChat is seeking a Head of Talent to own and evolve our entire hiring function, managing everything from strategy development to execution. This is a senior individual contributor role where you will operate as both a strategist and an executor. Your core mandate is to guide VRChat in building a small, exceptionally strong team by translating business needs into clear hiring criteria, proactively sourcing outstanding talent, and driving searches from initial scoping through successful closure. This position is ideally suited for someone who has previously built a hiring function from the ground up and who can think strategically with leadership while remaining comfortable sourcing, screening, and closing candidates day to day.

Job & Team Impact

In this role, you will serve as VRChat's most senior voice on hiring strategy, advising leadership on organizational design, headcount planning, and how roles should be defined before they are advertised. Simultaneously, you will personally manage full-cycle recruiting, especially for strategic and hard-to-fill technical roles. You will also be responsible for building the necessary infrastructure - including processes, tooling, and calibration standards - to support VRChat's growth and evolving hiring needs.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Own VRChat's hiring strategy end to end: Partner with senior leaders on organizational design, headcount planning, and role scoping prior to searches opening.
• Personally execute full-cycle recruiting, managing everything from proactive outbound sourcing through to offer closure.
• Drive search momentum by maintaining clear ownership, ensuring timely interviewer feedback, and facilitating decisive hiring manager follow through. You must share progress transparently, surface bottlenecks early, and partner with leaders to resolve issues.
• Refine recruiting systems, Applicant Tracking System (ATS) workflows, and the overall candidate experience as company needs change. This includes building practical, competency-based interview loops and evidence-based debriefs to ensure consistent recognition of top candidates and maintain a high hiring standard.
• Collaborate with the People team and hiring managers during the transition from recruiting to onboarding. Use new hire ramp feedback and quality-of-hire insights to continuously improve role scoping, assessment methods, and candidate expectations.
• Build and maintain pipelines for niche, hard-to-fill technical and senior roles, focusing on passive candidates who are not actively searching.
• Provide market intelligence to leadership to help inform critical hiring decisions.
• Operate with a high degree of independence, being able to seamlessly switch between strategic advisory tasks and hands-on execution based on weekly priorities.

What Success Looks Like in Your First Year

• Establishing strong, proactive pipelines for priority searches, especially those for technical and senior roles that are difficult to fill.
• Achieving consistent, evidence-based candidate assessment leading to faster and better informed hiring decisions.
• Improving overall search momentum and candidate experience, supported by clear progress reporting and early bottleneck resolution.
• Demonstrating hiring quality improvements, measurable through new hire ramp outcomes and consistent manager feedback.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, including significant time spent building a recruiting function, ideally within a startup or scaling organization.
• Proven ability to function effectively as both a strategic advisor to leadership and a hands-on individual contributor.
• A strong background in technical sourcing, with a demonstrable track record of successfully hiring for engineering or other hard-to-fill technical positions.
• Experience in developing recruiting systems and streamlining effective onboarding handoffs.
• A verifiable track record of strong hiring outcomes, which can be measured by improvements in time to hire, offer acceptance rate, or similar metrics.
• Comfortable advising senior leadership on organizational design and headcount strategy, including the ability to provide thoughtful pushback when necessary.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all organizational levels.

Bonus Points

• Experience recruiting for technical, consumer, social, or platform-based products.
• Experience in lean environments that required flexibility beyond recruiting, such as workforce planning, manager enablement, or building foundational People practices.
• Exposure to hiring in fields like trust and safety, content moderation, or community focused roles.
• Demonstrated interest in VR, online communities, or being an active VRChat user and creator.
• Familiarity with how VRChat's platform and community operate.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company and offers flexible working hours, complemented by core hours designed to support real time collaboration.
• Health Insurance
• 401(k) for US employees and Group RRSP for Canadian Employees
• Stock Options
• Generous paid holiday schedule
• Unlimited/flexible vacation time
• Paid parental leave benefits

VRChat is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. We foster a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where everyone can contribute to any ongoing project or direction of the roadmap. If you are a passionate team player ready to make an impact on a dynamic team, we encourage you to apply! All job offers are contingent upon early stage identity checks, satisfactory referencing, and background checks.