Head of Talent

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.

● 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