Head of People

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