Lead product design for social core experiences 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.

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.

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

Senior Product Designer, Experience – Social Core

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