Staff/Principal Designer

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 enable users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device. VRChat has raised around $100M to date with the support of our investors, which include: Makers Fund, Anthos Capital and HTC. We have a great team which includes people from: Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga and TikTok. 

Come and join the mission!

As a Staff/Principal Designer, you will help define and prototype future use cases, driving our vision for new social experiences across VR and our expansion to other platforms. You’ll collaborate with the VP of Design, design leadership, and cross-functional partners to imagine what’s next for VRChat, leveraging your expertise in spatial design, visual storytelling, and rapid iteration. While the role is vision-oriented, you will integrate insights and feedback from ongoing execution, experimentation, and user research to establish visions grounded in the realities of our user needs and tech capabilities. This work will ultimately inform roadmaps and future investments.

Responsibilities

• Visualize Possibilities: Communicate compelling possibilities for VRChat’s future, focusing on new social experiences across VR and other platforms

• Prototyping & Exploration: Create mockups and prototypes to explore future use cases and concepts that will inform our strategies

• Iterate with Insights: Collaborate with user research and execution teams to inform and refine directions.

• Immersion across Platforms: Bring your expertise in cross-platform design to innovate on how immersive social translates across lower-immersion platforms

• Collaborate Across Teams: Align with design, engineering, and product teams to ensure the vision is feasible and aligns with VRChat’s goals

• Inclusive Design: Foster collaboration and inclusivity, ensuring diverse perspectives shape the design process

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing innovation and strong visual storytelling

• Experience integrating user research into design decisions and iterating based on feedback

• Proven ability to lead design efforts, with a strong bias toward collaboration

• Understanding of user-centered design principles, particularly as applied to social platforms and virtual worlds

• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments, adapting designs as new insights emerge

• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex ideas to cross-functional teams

Bonus Points

• Experience designing for VR, AR, as well as mobile, desktop and other platforms

• Familiarity with user research methodologies and testing

• Experience in a similar space, designing for virtual worlds and social interaction

• Experience with Unity or other game engine technologies

Benefits

• 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

VRChat is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. VRChat fosters a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where anyone can contribute to any of the ongoing projects or direction of the roadmap at any time. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an impact on a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!

All job offers are subject to satisfactory referencing and background checks.