VRChat is hiring a Head of Talent to own and evolve our entire hiring function, from strategy to execution. This is a senior individual contributor role. You’ll operate as both strategist and executor, setting direction for how VRChat hires while personally owning the day-to-day work of running searches. 

Your mandate is to help VRChat build a small, exceptionally strong team: translate business needs into clear hiring criteria, proactively find outstanding people, and drive searches from initial scoping through close. 

This role suits someone who has built a hiring function from the ground up before, who thinks like a strategic partner to leadership but is equally comfortable being the one sourcing, screening, and closing candidates day to day.

You’ll be VRChat’s senior-most voice on hiring strategy, advising leadership on org design, headcount planning, and how roles should be scoped before they ever go to market. At the same time, you’ll personally run full-cycle searches, particularly for strategic and hard-to-fill technical roles, and build the infrastructure (process, tooling, calibration standards) that supports VRChat’s hiring needs as they grow and change. 

Own VRChat’s hiring strategy end to end: partner with senior leaders on org design, headcount planning, and role scoping before searches open 

Personally run full-cycle recruiting, from proactive outbound sourcing through offer close

Drive search momentum through clear ownership, timely interviewer feedback, and decisive hiring-manager follow-through. Share progress transparently, surface bottlenecks early, and partner with leaders to resolve them 

Refine our recruiting systems, ATS workflows, and candidate experience as the company’s needs change. Build practical, competency-based interview loops and evidence-based debriefs that help teams consistently recognize strong candidates and maintain a high hiring bar 

Partner with People and hiring managers on the recruiting-to-onboarding handoff. Use new-hire ramp feedback and quality-of-hire insights to improve role scoping, assessment, and candidate expectations. 

Build and maintain pipelines for niche, hard-to-fill technical and senior roles, including passive candidates not currently job hunting 

Bring market intelligence to leadership to inform hiring decisions 

Operate independently and able to flex between strategic advisory work and hands-on execution depending on what a given week requires 

Strong, proactive pipelines for priority searches, including hard-to-fill technical and senior roles. 

Consistent, evidence-based assessment and faster, better-informed hiring decisions. 

Improved search momentum and candidate experience, with clear progress reporting and early resolution of bottlenecks.

Evidence of hiring quality drawn from new-hire ramp outcomes and manager feedback.

8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including time spent building a recruiting function largely from scratch, ideally at a startup or scaling company 

Demonstrated ability to operate as both a strategic advisor to leadership and a hands-on individual contributor 

Strong technical sourcing background, with a track record of hiring for engineering or other hard-to-fill technical roles 

Experience building recruiting systems and effective onboarding handoffs 

Track record of strong hiring outcomes, measurable improvements in time-to-hire, offer acceptance rate, or similar 

Comfortable advising senior leadership on org design and headcount strategy, including pushing back thoughtfully when needed 

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels of an organization

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 areas like trust & safety, content moderation, or community-focused roles 

Demonstrated interest in VR, online communities, or being a VRChat user and creator

Familiarity with how VRChat’s platform and community work

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company offering flexible working hours in combination with core hours supporting real-time collaboration

• Health Benefits

• 401K for US & Group RRSP for Canadian Employees

• Stock Options

• Generous paid holiday schedule

• Unlimited/flexible vacation time

• Paid parental leave benefits