VRChat

• Operate and improve production infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. • Define, measure, and improve reliability using SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and DORA metrics. • Build and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and incident response processes. • Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, postmortems, and follow-up remediation. • Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using modern IaC and scripting tools. • Work closely with engineering teams to improve service reliability, deployment quality, and operational readiness. • Turn ambiguous infrastructure, reliability, and operational problems into clear, scalable, and measurable solutions. • Engage with backend codebases through code reviews, pull requests, and occasional feature or tooling work to build shared context with product engineering teams.

• 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

Join the VRChat Team! 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 and is building out a strong team to achieve hyper-growth in the coming years. Job Overview We are looking for a Senior Recruiter, Contract (20 hours/week) to support hiring across a targeted set of roles spanning Engineering, Design, and Product. This role is focused on full-cycle recruiting execution, with responsibility for running searches from intake through close in partnership with hiring managers and a recruiting coordinator. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating independently, managing multiple roles, and delivering consistent progress across active searches.   Job & Team Impact In this role, you will help ensure that priority hires are made efficiently by driving day-to-day recruiting execution. This includes building and managing pipelines, keeping candidates engaged, and maintaining momentum across interview processes. You will play a key role in helping the team stay organized and responsive—surfacing insights from the market, identifying gaps in pipelines, and ensuring hiring teams are able to make timely decisions.

• 日本市場におけるマーケティング施策の企画・実行（オーガニック施策、コミュニティ主導施策、広告施策を含む） • ユーザー獲得から継続的なエンゲージメントまで、主要ファネル指標のモニタリング・改善およびレポーティング • 各種施策の検証を通じて、日本市場向けマーケティング施策の型づくりを行う • Product、Data、Community、Marketingなどの関連チームと連携し、日本市場向け施策を推進して成果につなげる • 戦略立案と実行の両面を担い、変化の速いスタートアップ環境で自律的に業務を推進する

• Be responsible for connecting with, growing, and engaging the VRChat user community in Japan. • Focus on community-driven growth, managing core community hubs such as X, Discord and LINE. • Collaborate closely with various stakeholders in the Japanese VRChat ecosystem. • Operate as a highly proactive community builder who can execute quickly in a fast-paced environment while working directly with users, partners, and internal teams to strengthen the VRChat ecosystem in Japan.

• Lead product design for social core experiences end-to-end, including connecting with friends, group discovery, community participation, and events. • Set clear team direction in ambiguous spaces: define problems, align stakeholders, and turn strategy into shippable work. • Partner tightly with PM and engineering in agile cycles, bringing early concepts, prototypes, and iterative design into buildable execution. • Drive cross-platform design across VR, desktop, mobile, and web, adapting patterns to different input modes while maintaining coherence and quality. • Design with systems thinking: establish reusable interaction patterns and state models for social features, and contribute scalable components to our Voyager UI design system. • Stay close to users and community behavior, working with research, data, community, and trust & safety partners as needed to understand social norms, friction, and edge cases. • Communicate decisions with clarity: document flows, permissions, roles, states, edge cases, and tradeoffs so teams can execute in depth with confidence. • Elevate the craft and culture around you: run design critiques, model healthy collaboration, and help the team move faster through early feedback, ensuring a standard of high quality.

• Design and implement scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript • Ensure transactional integrity in high-volume economic systems • Model digital ownership, entitlements, wallets, and payouts • Build and evolve systems supporting both first-party and creator-driven content • Drive refactors that improve maintainability and long-term platform evolution • Participate in architectural discussions shaping the future of VRChat’s economy stack • Design reliable economic event representations • Ensure traceability across payment transactions and reporting systems • Enable subscription and marketplace analytics • Support experimentation and feature iteration • Maintain reconciliation accuracy and reporting integrity • Contribute to fraud detection and prevention systems • Own services from development through deployment and monitoring • Improve CI/CD reliability and release safety • Work within containerized environments (Docker) • Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • Strengthen observability, monitoring, and incident response practices • Occasionally jump in to resolve critical production issues

- **Own and operate the live ops content pipeline end-to-end.** Planning, briefing, production tracking, reviews, integration coordination, and release readiness. - **Steward and elevate VRChat’s creative strategy** for live ops content, upholding a high bar while evolving the system with the team over time (style continuity, quality, and cohesion). - **Partner with the Director of Design and Art Team Manager** to align on creative direction, review norms, and quality standards, so the team has clear principles and consistent decision-making. - **Lead and support our internal art team **with a collaborative, feedback-forward culture: clear goals, strong critique habits, and an emphasis on sustainable output. - **Run external studio collaboration in a way that feels like an extension of the team:** strong briefs, fast and respectful feedback loops, clear acceptance criteria, and healthy relationships across partners. - **Translate creative goals into shippable reality** by working closely with engineering on performance constraints, asset requirements, and integration needs. - **Reduce rework and increase throughput** by improving docs, templates, review checklists, and lightweight processes. - **Make tradeoffs visible, keep stakeholders aligned, and drive clarity** to enable our creative teams to do their best work.

• Partner with your design lead, PMs, and engineers to design and improve props and content creation, including upload, management, publishing, and (where relevant) monetization. • Design intuitive interfaces that support creators with varying levels of technical expertise, from hobbyists to professional developers. • Translate technical concepts into approachable UX through thoughtful flows, clear visual hierarchy, and user-friendly microcopy. • Pair with the community and support teams to understand creator pain points and use those insights to improve tool usability and reduce friction. • Create wireframes, prototypes, and polished mockups across platforms (Desktop, VR, Mobile, Web). • Run lightweight usability testing (concept checks, prototype tests) to validate designs early, identify friction, and iterate quickly.

• Own and evolve the end-to-end Unity content pipeline for live ops assets, helping us ship 3D props and content updates with consistency and speed. • Implement and validate 3D assets in Unity: prefabs, materials, shaders, collisions, LODs, lighting setups, and import settings, with an eye toward performance and reliability. • Build and maintain tools, scripts, and automation (primarily in C# and Udon) that reduce manual work, prevent common errors, and make publishing repeatable. • Create lightweight quality gates for content: asset validation checks, naming/structure conventions, performance budgets, and “ready to ship” checklists. • Debug content and pipeline issues across disciplines, working with engineers on technical constraints and with artists on asset readiness. • Collaborate with Product Design and Creators partners to ensure content supports the intended user experience and meets our quality bar. • Document workflows so the whole team can move faster as we scale content volume in 2026.