Head of People

Join the VRChat Team

VRChat is an immersive social platform, home to a passionate, global user base and a vibrant creator community. Our community is what makes us successful and that shapes how we think about People. We’re fully remote, globally distributed, and backed by $100M from Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC. We move fast, build lean, and care deeply about the people and culture that make this work.

Job Overview

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution. You’ll own the full People function, reporting directly to the CEO and serving as VRChat’s most senior People leader.

We’re looking for a builder: someone who sets direction and does the work, moves fast, and is actively exploring how AI can transform the way People teams operate. If you’re energized by leading lean, high-impact environments and care deeply about building inclusive, community-aligned cultures, this role was built for you.

You’ll lead a small, high-impact team and you’ll be expected to be a player-coach who sets the strategy and rolls up their sleeves to execute it.

Job & Team Impact

As Head of People, you’ll shape how VRChat attracts, develops, and retains the talent that makes our mission possible. You’ll be a trusted partner to the CEO and business leaders, a coach to managers, and a champion for the people and culture that make VRChat distinct.

Join the VRChat Team

VRChat is an immersive social platform, home to a passionate, global user base and a vibrant creator community. Our community is what makes us successful and that shapes how we think about People. We’re fully remote, globally distributed, and backed by $100M from Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC. We move fast, build lean, and care deeply about the people and culture that make this work.

Job Overview

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution. You’ll own the full People function, reporting directly to the CEO and serving as VRChat’s most senior People leader.

We’re looking for a builder: someone who sets direction and does the work, moves fast, and is actively exploring how AI can transform the way People teams operate. If you’re energized by leading lean, high-impact environments and care deeply about building inclusive, community-aligned cultures, this role was built for you.

You’ll lead a small, high-impact team and you’ll be expected to be a player-coach who sets the strategy and rolls up their sleeves to execute it.

Job & Team Impact

As Head of People, you’ll shape how VRChat attracts, develops, and retains the talent that makes our mission possible. You’ll be a trusted partner to the CEO and business leaders, a coach to managers, and a champion for the people and culture that make VRChat distinct.

Own the full People function, with accountability spanning People Operations, Talent & Recruiting, Performance & Growth, Compensation Strategy, Culture & Engagement, and Manager Enablement

Serve as a strategic business partner to the CEO and senior leadership team, aligning People strategy with business goals and delivering talent insights that connect people metrics to outcomes

Translate engagement, attrition, and performance data into proactive executive-level narratives and recommendations

Lead and develop a small, high-impact People team, ensuring they have the support, clarity, and tools to do their best work

Own recruiting strategy, with a consistent focus on quality of hire and long-term fit. Be the closer on senior and hard-to-fill roles

Evolve our performance frameworks to keep pace with how we work, giving managers practical tools that drive real accountability

Own how VRChat thinks about compensation: leveling, equity philosophy, and how it’s communicated to candidates and employees

Embed AI into People Operations by identifying and implementing solutions that meaningfully reduce manual workload and enhance the employee experience

Sustain and evolve VRChat’s inclusive, remote-first culture across a globally distributed and diverse workforce

8–12 years in People/HR, with ownership of a People function or a significant pillar of it, budget accountability, and leadership partner experience

Demonstrated track record of building and executing people programs with measurable impact

Fast and iterative. Gets a v1 in front of stakeholders in days, not weeks, and improves from there

Experience supporting fully remote, globally distributed teams

Has scaled a People function at a company in the 100–500 employee range

AI-forward: actively uses AI in People work today and can identify, evaluate, and implement solutions that reduce manual workload

Earns trust quickly and influences at all levels through expertise and judgment

Genuinely aligned with how we work: bold enough to experiment, willing to engage in healthy debate and then commit fully, collaborative by default, and motivated by outcomes over activity

Empathetic and decisive; comfortable operating in ambiguity and making pragmatic calls with imperfect information

Able to operate at the executive level, comfortable presenting people data and insights to leadership and a board

Experience managing globally distributed teams across multiple employment models and regions