Director Of Product, Algorithms & Personalization

2 hours, 3 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
VRChat

VRChat

VRChat provides a platform that enables users to create and explore immersive virtual reality experiences, allowing for social interaction and community-driven content creation through its Unity SDK.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2014
$95M raised

Description

  • Own the product strategy for personalization, matchmaking, and discovery across worlds, groups, events, and social connections.
  • Lead the roadmap for algorithmic systems, including candidate generation, ranking, diversity and novelty controls, and context-aware recommendations.
  • Partner with ML/Engineering and Data Science to deliver production-grade models and pipelines, including instrumentation, feature development, evaluation, and iteration.
  • Design user-facing experiences that turn algorithmic capabilities into clear user value.
  • Define and operationalize success metrics for relevance, retention, social outcomes, and ecosystem health with strong guardrails.
  • Own experimentation end-to-end, from hypothesis generation and test design to analysis, rollout, and ongoing tuning.
  • Ensure system quality and integrity by addressing spam, manipulation, low-quality content, feedback loops, and unintended consequences.
  • Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly to executives and cross-functional partners to align goals and execution.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of product management experience on large-scale consumer platforms.
  • Deep experience building algorithm-driven products such as personalization, ranking, recommender systems, feeds, search/discovery, or matchmaking.
  • Strong fluency in experimentation and measurement, including A/B testing, counterfactual thinking, metrics design, and causal reasoning basics.
  • Ability to work effectively with technical teams on ML systems, including model lifecycle, data pipelines, evaluation, deployment/monitoring, and iteration.
  • Strong product judgment around tradeoffs such as relevance vs. diversity, short-term engagement vs. long-term satisfaction, and growth vs. ecosystem health.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp decisions and narratives.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work from anywhere.
  • Health benefits.
  • 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees.
  • Stock options.
  • Generous paid holiday schedule.
  • Unlimited or flexible vacation time.
  • Paid parental leave benefits.

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