Vice President, Engineering

Salary: $178.9K - $300K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

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: 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] Leading 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.