Head of People

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee a dedicated People function and enhance the current infrastructure.

• Collaborate with the recruiting lead on workforce planning, quality of hire, candidate experience, onboarding, and the employee lifecycle.

• Work alongside senior leaders to strengthen leadership alignment, decision-making processes, and accountability.

• Convert People priorities into actionable deliverables with assigned owners, milestones, and proactive communication regarding risks and trade-offs.

• Lead and nurture the People team by establishing clear priorities, providing support, and equipping them with necessary tools.

• Foster trust in People through reliable core operations and effective onboarding processes.

• Facilitate performance calibration and manager accountability initiatives.

• Mentor managers through challenging feedback, employee relations matters, and organizational transitions.

• Utilize engagement, attrition, and performance data to pinpoint organizational risks and capability gaps.

• Direct leveling and compensation strategies, including equity philosophy and communication, in conjunction with executive leadership and Finance.

• Leverage automation and AI to enhance People operations and employee experience while safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining human judgment.

• Maintain and advance VRChat's inclusive, remote-first culture across a globally distributed workforce.

• Achieve first-year objectives including clearer expectations, consistent performance calibration, dependable onboarding, trusted People operations, enhanced leadership alignment, and timely risk identification.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven success in leading a streamlined People function or a comparably broad People remit within a growing technology company, with direct responsibility for performance practices, manager coaching, employee relations, and People operations.

• Demonstrated history of creating and executing people programs that yield measurable results.

• Experience guiding a People function through significant inflection points, including evolving performance practices, supporting organizational changes, investing in culture, or scaling during growth phases.

• Agile and iterative; capable of presenting a version 1 to stakeholders swiftly and refining it thereafter.

• Practical experience in enhancing People workflows through automation or AI, with evidence of impact and sound judgment regarding privacy and human oversight.

• Proficient in communicating People insights, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to senior leadership, transforming discussions into decisions and actions.

• Experience managing globally distributed, fully remote teams across various employment models.

• Empathetic and decisive; comfortable navigating ambiguity and making pragmatic decisions with incomplete information.

• Aligned with VRChat's working style: experimentation, constructive debate followed by commitment, collaboration, and a focus on outcomes.

• Bonus: background in technology, gaming, social platforms, or community-driven products.

• Bonus: experience with products that serve as environments for users, such as gaming, social platforms, or creator tools.

• Bonus: experience presenting People insights and recommendations to a board.

• Bonus: proven ability to foster a sense of belonging within a diverse, global workforce.

• Bonus: time spent in VRChat or a keen interest in social VR.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a fully remote company offering flexible working hours alongside core hours to support real-time collaboration.

• Health benefits.

• 401K for US employees and Group RRSP for Canadian employees.

• Stock options.

• Generous paid holiday schedule.

• Unlimited/flexible vacation time.

• Paid parental leave benefits.