Chief Of Staff, VRChat
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Virtual world platform
Job no longer available
Virtual world platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build VRChat into one of the most successful community-driven social VR platforms in existence.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience, is required. MBA a plus
- Top-tier consumer technology, consulting, or venture capital background with longevity in previous roles is strongly preferred
- Prior exposure to and knowledge of games/mobile gaming business is a plus
- Experience working with senior executives in a fast-paced, agile environment - approaching the job with a great sense of urgency, initiative and juggling multiple priorities
- Operate under ambiguity and make decisions that reflect the CPO/EVP’s and the company’s best interests
- Project management skills with the ability to set goals and prioritize programs
- Analytical, observant, and strategic, applying the right balance between data and qualitative information to decision-making and change management
- Strong data and analytical expertise, knowledgeable and comfortable with financial P&Ls, and product KPIs
- Use frameworks to help structure the team's thinking and promote agreement on important decisions among team members
- Track record of proposing process and behavior solutions that drive efficiency and empowerment, and minimize politics and bureaucracy. Willing to push back and challenge, identify, and drive the right debates up, down, and around
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to build strong relationships with all personality types, ability to navigate difficult conversations/situations, and eliminate politics
- Ability to quickly draft highly effective communications for review and dissemination
- Ability to craft strong presentation materials working with cross-functional stakeholders
- Ability to roll up sleeves and jump into the trenches, performing a wide range of duties to successfully drive projects across the finish line under tight deadlines and with a high standard of excellence and attention to detail
- Low-ego team player who puts business outcomes before their own interests
- A mature individual who is open to receiving feedback, is eager to grow, and welcomes being challenged
What the job involves
- The Chief Of Staff is a trusted proxy and an operational lever for the CPO & EVP
- This person will play a key role in translating the CPO & EVP’s priorities and direction into actionable plans and running the day-to-day operations of the product organization
- The Chief of Staff must be exceptionally organized, an adept project manager, highly credible, approachable and experienced at working with senior leaders across the company
- The role reports into the CPO & EVP at VRChat, and will work closely with various stakeholders on the executive leadership team, the heads of various functions, and periodically interact with the VRChat Board as well
- Run key operational rhythm meetings for CPO/EVP (ensuring high-quality preparation for the meetings, capturing notes, and follow-through on action items)
- Run special projects that cut across functions (e.g troubleshoot collaboration issues, one-off investigations, internal/external benchmarking)
- Prep Board meeting materials leveraging inputs from multiple key stakeholders
- Ensure CPO/EVP is focused on and prepared for their highest-value time investments; effectively triaging demands on their time and manage/delegate distractions
- Ensure CPO/EVP has the right information at the right time to make good decisions
- Effectively manage, delegate and/or ensure accountability on all initiatives and deliverables initiated by or involving the CPO/EVP
- Serve as the CPO/EVP’s confidante and thought partner, helping them keep a finger on the pulse of the organization (across the lifecycle of problems - from spotting them, to generating solutions, through keeping track of solution implementation)
- Become a well respected proxy for the CPO/EVP through a deep understanding of the business and its people
- Ensure the organization has a clear and reliable operating rhythm that drives accountability and excellence in execution, as well as communication and alignment among senior leadership
- Support internal communications on behalf of the CPO/EVP, including by facilitating a regular drumbeat of internal engagements that inspire, motivate and align the team
- Communicate and operationalize the culture & values so that it is deeply integrated into the fabric of how the organization works
Our take
Virtual Reality is one of the technologies with the highest projected potential for growth. VRChat offers a free-to-play metaverse platform where users gather as avatars in virtual spaces to socialize and hang out, just as one would in real life.
Whilst competition certainly does exist, VRChat has positioned itself as a leading VR socializing-based product. It taps into a modern desire to form connections in digital spaces, with some users meeting their real-life partners in their virtual avatar form.
In 2024, the company announced a 30% workforce reduction, addressing overhiring during its 2021 boom. Despite these layoffs, the company remains focused on long-term growth and capital efficiency, positioning itself for continued success as VR becomes a key part of social connection.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2021
$80m
SERIES D
Sep 2019
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $95.2m
Company benefits
- Work remotely: Work from anywhere! They use collaboration software to stay organized and VRChat for meetings and hanging out
- Health and wellbeing: Medical, Dental and Vision plans for those in the United States, and extended health plans in British Columbia, Canada
- Fun: Monthly team dinners, get-togethers and once a year, they travel somewhere fun for a few days to hang out, catch up, brainstorm and have fun
- Tools: You’ll be provided a powerful PC, high-end VR hardware, and any software you need to make you effective in your role
- Vacations: Flexible vacation schedules that are encouraged. Most United States and Canadian holidays are observed by everyone on the team
- Swag: Great VRChat and Developer Team Swag such as hoodies, coffee mugs, t-shirts, sun glasses and even custom 3D printed goodies
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Graham Gaylor
(CEO & Co-founder)Interned at SmartVault, RSM Design, Equivalent DATA, and Seismic Exchange, before spending time at ChaiONE as an iOS Developer at at Zynga as a Software Engineer.
Jesse Joudrey
(CTO & Co-founder)Owner and CTO at Jespionage Entertainment. Began as a Software Engineer for Electronic Arts Canada before co-founding and serving as CTO for A.C.R.O.N.Y.M Games Inc.
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