Senior Product Designer, Experience (Social Core)
Anywhere
Design /
Full-Time /
Remote
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.