Head of Talent - Remote

VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind, game-changing platform that provides an endless collection of social VR experiences and gives the power of creation to its robust community. With over 250,000 worlds and growing, VRChat’s vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device. VRChat has raised $100M to date with the support of investors, Makers Fund, Anthos Capital and HTC.
Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga and TikTok. Job Overview VRChat is hiring a Head of Talent to own and evolve our entire hiring function, from strategy to execution. 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.
Job & Team Impact 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.
Duties & Responsibilities 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. 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
What Success Looks Like in Your First Year Strong, proactive pipelines for priority searches, including hard-to-fill technical and senior roles.
Consistent, evidence-based assessment and faster, better-informed hiring decisions.
Evidence of hiring quality drawn from new-hire ramp outcomes and manager feedback.
Experience, Skills & Qualifications 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including time spent building a recruiting function largely from scratch, ideally at a startup or scaling company
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
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels of an organization
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 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
VRChat is a 100% remote company offering flexible working hours in combination with core hours supporting real-time collaboration

Stock Options

Generous paid holiday schedule

Unlimited/flexible vacation time

VRChat fosters a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where anyone can contribute to any of the ongoing projects or direction of the roadmap at any time.