Senior Product Designer, Experience (Social Core)

Join the VRChat team! We’re building the future of immersive, social platforms, where anyone, anywhere, can connect, play, explore, and express themselves. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Experience team as the lead designer for VRChat’s social core: making and finding friends, joining groups, participating in communities, and discovering and showing up to events, big and small. This is a high-impact role for a systems-minded designer who can set direction, ship with momentum, and raise the quality bar across a complex, community-driven platform. You’ll partner closely with PM, user research, and engineering to shape the roadmap and define the experience strategy for social surfaces. You will deliver end-to-end product design across VR, desktop, mobile, and web, balancing usability, community norms, and platform constraints in a fast-moving environment. What You’ll Do Lead product design for social coreexperiences 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. Who You Are You have 6+ years of professional product design experience and have shipped significant, user-facing products with cross-functional partners. You have strong UX craft across flows, interaction design, prototyping, and systems thinking, and you know how to make complex social systems feel simple and human. You’re comfortable designing across platforms and input modes, and you can adapt patterns without losing consistency, usability, or clarity. You operate like a lead: you set direction, create alignment, and drive decisions, without relying on hierarchy or ego. You thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy spaces into clear outcomes, making smart tradeoffs to maintain momentum. You’re a low-ego, high-agency collaborator: you seek feedback early, listen well, and help teams do their best work together. You care deeply about social product quality, healthy user interaction, clear expectations, and designing with community norms in mind. You prioritize impact over perfection and have strong judgment about what to ship now vs. what to build toward. Bonus Points Experience leading design for social platforms, community features, groups, event/discovery systems, or network/relationship-driven products. Familiarity with trust & safety, moderation, reporting, privacy, identity, or integrity systems in online communities. Experience designing for VR/AR/spatial interfaces, or cross-platform ecosystems spanning web, mobile, and native clients. Comfort collaborating with technically complex systems (state-heavy flows, roles/permissions, presence, identity, real-time and async social). A genuine interest in social VR, online communities, and the future of digital self-expression. 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 for U.S. and Canadian employees 401K (U.S.) and RRSP (Canada) retirement plans Stock options Unlimited/flexible vacation policy Paid parental leave Generous holiday schedule 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.