VP, Engineering

About Maze

Maze is the user research platform that helps companies build the right products faster by making user insights available at the speed of product development.

In most companies, research demand far exceeds supply. Time, cost, and lack of access to expertise hold teams back. In today’s AI-powered world, anyone can build a product fast. The real challenge? Deeply understanding user needs and building the right product. That’s where Maze comes in.

We believe companies shouldn’t have to choose between building fast and building right. Maze makes research accessible, intuitive, and fast so product teams can put user insights at the center of every decision.

Our platform enables researchers, designers, and product managers to quickly recruit participants, run studies autonomously, and surface insights that actually drive product decisions. Our AI capabilities automate the busywork and add depth and direction to the insights themselves.

That’s why Maze was recently named the #1 user research platform in UX Tools’ Design Tools Survey—and why we’re scaling fast across industries like B2B SaaS, e-Commerce, Financial Services, Retail, and Automotive, supporting world class customers such as Uber, Amazon, Atlassian, Anthropic & more.

Maze is a Series B company backed by top-tier investors (Felicis, Emergence & Amplify). We operate a global remote workforce driven by our core values.

The Role

We’re looking for a Vice President, Engineering to join Maze’s executive leadership team and help shape the next chapter of our engineering organization.

This is an opportunity to lead with impact. Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll play a key role in evolving our culture, scaling our systems, and unlocking the full potential of our team. We’re looking for someone who cares deeply about people and performance, and who’s excited to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to a team that’s ready for its next phase of growth.

Location: Remote, Preference for USA/East Coast, United Kingdom, or Portugal. The company's key engineering and product teams are based in Europe and Portugal.

Experience with high-craft products where design and user experience matter.

You'll work on:

• [Leading & Scaling] Leading and scaling Maze’s global engineering organization with strategic direction, clarity, and urgency
• [Hiring] Lead the recruitment and development of engineering talent, with a focus on hiring exceptional engineers and managers who align with Maze’s mission and values.
• [Performance Culture] Building a performance culture rooted in excellence, accountability, and innovation
• [Set the Bar] Establishing clear expectations for quality, speed, and team contribution to ensure engineering drives business impact
• [AI Vision] Owning AI strategy, vision, and technical delivery across Maze, including integration into workflows and product surfaces
• [Cross-functional partner] Partnering with Product, Design, and the GTM org to ship research-driven features that serve real user needs in innovative ways
• [Ship the Org Chart] Supporting EMs in building team structure, performance rhythms, and individual career paths
• [Business Partner to CEO] Bringing executive presence and influence to the leadership team - be a thought partner to the CEO & the executive team to drive business & roadmap decisions.
  
  

As a VP of Engineering at Maze, you will:

• Set a clear vision for Engineering and align it with company priorities and product strategy
• Drive high velocity, AI-forward product delivery in a lean and distributed environment
• Lead and develop a team of globally distributed, Engineering Managers and ICs, fostering autonomy, trust, and performance
• Establish systems for accountability, clarity, and consistent quality across pods and platforms
• Bring thought partnership to executive conversations, connecting technical opportunity with business ambition
• Model strategic, focused, and decisive leadership through moments of change and uncertainty
• Invest in the growth and upward mobility of engineers and leaders by building systems of support that empower development
  
  

You should apply if:

• You have 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years leading teams in high-growth B2B SaaS environments
• You have experience leading teams through hyper-growth and scale challenges. You have built teams of double-digit size (60+ engineers) and are able to fly at different altitude, from strategy to hands-on engagement with the team.
• You have a track record of setting clear performance standards and building orgs where excellence is the norm
• You have the altitude to engage in high-level strategic discussions while also being close enough to the technical team to understand the codebase and workflows.
• You have a proven track record of hiring Tier 1 talent in Europe & the US, ensuring the team remains at the highest caliber as they scale
• You’ve worked in lean or rebuilding environments where culture and delivery needed reshaping
• You’ve integrated AI/ML into products and engineering workflows—not just for hype, but for real leverage
• You bring experience in AI developer tooling (e.g., Cursor, intelligent CI/CD, AI-based QA)
• You’ve led the delivery of a full end-to-end AI product and have experience with models, evals strategy, and bring a vision on how to get excellent AI products to market.
• You lead with urgency, clarity, and care, and bring teams with you through ambiguity
• You’re a strong thought partner to CEOs and product leaders who can push back with substance and vision
• You communicate transparently and have the EQ to lead distributed, diverse teams
• You enjoy mentoring EMs and building leaders around you - not just scaling IC capacity
  
  

Bonus Points

• You’ve led a function through strategic shifts
• You have worked in product-led/sales-assisted organizations
• You bring strong commercial instincts and understand how engineering influences revenue and retention
• You’re familiar with our tech stack (Node.js/TypeScript, React, AWS)
• You’ve worked closely with researchers, designers, or AI/ML teams to build highly usable products
  
  

Reporting Structure

• Reports directly to the CEO
• Acts as a peer to the executive team and carries ownership for engineering’s strategic contribution
• Oversees all Engineering across product surfaces
• Will influence future hiring of technical leadership and org design
  
  

Inclusivity and Pay

At Maze, we are dedicated to building an equitable, inclusive, and authentic workspace. Unique and diverse perspectives are welcomed, and continuous growth is encouraged. We believe that people are more than their resumes, so if your past experience looks different than the criteria listed, we'd still love to hear from you. We appreciate and celebrate non-traditional life routes and encourage you to apply should you connect with a job description or the Maze culture.

Maze values transparency and it enables us to approach compensation equitably across the world. We are informed by data and regularly check our salary ranges (either United States or Rest of World) against other venture backed companies. Additionally, we are proud of our holistic and generous benefits offerings, included in every compensation package.

Your salary is dependent upon many factors, including years of experience, expertise, etc. During your first interview, you can expect to have an open conversation with your recruiter regarding your compensation expectations.

Why Maze is unique

• Early-stage startup: You will join an early-stage startup with less than 150 team members. This means you'll have the unique opportunity to directly impact success and help shape the future of Maze.
• Market disruption: We believe that the way companies build products is fundamentally broken and the user research market is ripe for disruption. For too long, companies have been forced to choose between rapid development without user insights or investing months into research before bringing products to market. But there's finally a groundswell building around a path forward that eliminates this compromise - and Maze is leading the charge.
• Product-market Fit: Maze is used by 100,000+ brands across 4,000 companies, from SMB to enterprises, and in the last fiscal year, we saw 6.5M questions answered, supporting 25K decisions
  
  

Benefits

• Health insurance with international coverage, vision, and dental: 100% of the team member premium paid
• For some locations, coverage options vary, please see our benefits pages for more information
• Free access to proper mental health care, unlimited virtual therapy sessions (with a human) and 24/7 access to resources
• Life and Disability Insurance, 100% of the team member premium paid
• Flexible time off
• Meaningful equity
• Company retreats, fully paid for by Maze
• New MacBook (laptop), paid for by Maze
• Paid Family leave: 16 weeks for birth or adoptive parents
• $500/month to be used for dependent health insurance coverage
• If you don't have dependents to add to your plan, you will still get access to this money to be used at your discretion to get the benefits that matter to you with our flexible a-maze-ing benefits - gym memberships, co-working spaces, food, travel, whatever!
• $1,500 remote work setup fund to ensure you can set up a productive work space
• Flexible work schedule where you manage your own working hours
• Monthly Bonus.ly points that are awarded to others to recognize teamwork, dedication and helpfulness - points can be cashed out for gift cards and more
• Virtual social engagements randomly throughout the year
• SWAG, we have some really cool swag
• Open, transparent culture that includes virtual: coffee chats, bi-weekly all-hands meetings, and more
  

Check out all of our a-maze-ing benefits here.

Outreach Notice

We understand you might be excited about the job you’re applying for, we are excited you are interested! However, please refrain from reaching out to our current team members on LinkedIn for referrals. Our policy is that referrals can only be provided by team members who personally know the candidate. With the high volume of interest in our roles, contacting our team members who are not involved in recruitment can be overwhelming. Additionally, please avoid submitting support tickets regarding your application, as our support team is not involved in the hiring process. Rest assured, our recruitment team is diligently reviewing all applications and will reach out directly if there is a match.