Head of People, Maze
$149-201.5k
+ Equity
Expert level
Remote in US
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User research platform
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User research platform
101-200 employees
B2BEnterpriseDesignAnalyticsSaaSProduct Management
Be an early applicant
$149-201.5k
+ Equity
Expert level
Remote in US
More information about location
101-200 employees
B2BEnterpriseDesignAnalyticsSaaSProduct Management
Company mission
To empower any company to build the right products faster, by making user insights available at the speed of product development.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires strategic thinking, excellent relationship building and influencing skills, and a strong project manager who owns initiatives from inception to launch
- Proven experience leading People Operations in a scaling startup: A track record of scaling organizations from 100 to 500 employees in a fully remote environment. Adept at scaling all areas of the People team and aligning people initiatives with business objectives while partnering closely with executives
- Exceptional relationship-building, collaboration, and influencing skills: Ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across teams and levels. You excel at influencing senior stakeholders and driving alignment on key initiatives, creating a culture of trust and open communication
- Proven change management expertise: Demonstrated success in leading and managing organizational change by implementing new processes and cultural shifts to enhance clarity, performance, and alignment. Skilled at guiding teams through transitions and ensuring smooth adoption of programs and workflows to achieve long-term success
- Extensive experience working with global teams across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, with a deep understanding of cultural dynamics and how to foster collaboration in a fully remote environment. Expertise in navigating international compliance and employment laws, ensuring consistent alignment of policies and processes with legal requirements
- DEI expertise: Strong background in driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, embedding DEI principles across recruitment, talent development, and people functions, fostering a fair and inclusive work environment
- Data-driven mindset: Experience optimizing people programs by using metrics and KPIs to measure and enhance effectiveness. Skilled in data analysis to inform decision-making and continuously improve processes like performance reviews, engagement surveys, and organizational design, ensuring efficiency and alignment with company objectives
- Comfort with both strategic and hands-on work: Able to seamlessly toggle between high-level strategic planning and hands-on execution to drive results
What the job involves
- Maze is seeking an experienced, strategic Head of People to lead the People function and drive the roadmap
- This role reports into the CEO and is a member of our executive team
- You’ll be leading a team of 2 to start, balancing between strategy and execution
- You’ll oversee everything under the People umbrella, from recruitment, HR Operations, DEI and L&D
- Lead and scale the People team. Develop and execute the People team’s strategic roadmap, setting and tracking goals while planning the team’s future direction and initiating the change process to achieve it. Manage a team of two (a Recruiter and a People Operations Manager), providing both an inspiring vision and clear definition of roles and responsibilities to ensure alignment and success
- Serve as the voice of the People team in e-team meetings, ensuring input and buy-in for new people initiatives. Present and analyze key people metrics, keeping the e-team informed and aligned on progress and priorities
- Lead the recruitment team: streamline processes for pipeline tracking, headcount planning, and establishing a clear source of truth in collaboration with your stakeholders. Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration and maintain visibility across all recruitment activities to meet hiring targets and ensure roles get filled by their designated hire dates
- Partner closely with people managers, coaching them through challenges and educating them on best practices and people programs. Enable managers to become effective leaders and coaches for their teams, fostering a culture of performance and growth
- Oversee, review, and continuously improve People tools, programs, and processes, including performance reviews, engagement surveys, development plans, succession planning, and organizational design. Develop and implement people metrics with a consistent reporting cadence to drive data-informed decision-making
- Drive initiatives that foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace, ensuring that DEI principles are embedded in all People team programs. Promote a culture where all employees feel valued and empowered to contribute their best
- Cultivate a connected remote work environment by promoting a culture of collaboration, communication, and performance across distributed teams. Implement strategies that support team effectiveness, maintain productivity, and ensure all team members feel connected, valued and aligned with company goals
Our take
Maze is a rapid testing platform designed for product and marketing teams to run large-scale user tests and gain actionable insights within hours. Tailored for user-facing experiences, it enables teams to test prototypes, and concepts, and copy remotely and collaboratively, transforming results into quantitative data quickly.
The platform is intuitive, browser-based, and device-agnostic, seamlessly integrating with top design tools like Figma, InVision, Adobe XD, Marvel, and Sketch, speeding up the testing process.
Operating as a fully remote team, Maze practices what it preaches about the effectiveness of remote work. In 2022, it secured $40M in funding, which is being invested in new product solutions and workflow integrations, furthering its mission to democratize product research.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Feb 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $57.5m
Company benefits
- To help our team do their best work, we provide a non-windows computer and funds to get setup. As computing requirements vary from team to team, the best option is according to personal and team preferences
- Fund to get everything you need for you rhome office set up
- Every month, each amazing will be given 500 bonusly points (converts to around $70) that they can give to other amazings to recognize them for teamwork, dedication and helpfulness. You can use the points you receive from your colleagues to redeem products on Amazon, cash out on Paypal, donate to non-profits and many more options (depending on what country you're based)
- Referral bonus: What's better than working with people you trust? If you know someone who you trust to do a great job for one of the open positions at Maze, we want to know about them. This will help Maze build a great product, create a great culture, and make sure every a-maze-ing is, well, amazing. So, if hired, on their 6 months anniversary you will receive a $1000 bonus for full time team member recruits or $500 for part time team member recruits (that are not fixed term i.e. have no set end date)
- Company off-site: Our teams gather in person 1-2 times per year to collaborate together, generate deeper bonds, and get some face-to-face time in. These events may be smaller team meetups or larger department gathering depending on the objective of the off-site. In the past we have also done company wide retreats, but we are currently putting more focus on the department/team events. 100% of airfare, accommodation, meals are paid by Maze plus you get an activity fund to have some fun
- All team members are able to book drop-in sessions and therapy courses with mental health professionals via Oliva
- Team members have access to free virtual wellness sessions and self-guided resources such as Yoga, exercise classes, bed time stories, meditation resources, and more. Plus a library of resource clips on managing things like anxiety, stress, burnout, parenting, and more
- Learning and Development Stipend to pay for all of your professional development needs
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Company values
- Build fast: With speed comes faster learnings. We believe in continuous improvements so that our users get more value faster and we can learn rapidly
- Beautiful always: We’re a design-led company and believe in the power of beautiful design to drive business growth, user satisfaction and ultimately to change the world
- Iterate everything: Everything we do at Maze is an iteration to the next step. We don’t strive for immediate perfection but rather take an experimental approach to everything we do
- Informed by data: We believe in the power of data. And this is why we use data as the basis of our decision-making—but we also believe in going with your gut feeling from time to time. We’re human after all
- Embrace vulnerability: We believe that improving anything starts with the ability to listen to others. Feedback — both internal and external — is vital to everything we do
- Human design: We always consider the human on the other side of every interaction: when we design experiences, develop our product, create marketing materials, or walk you through our product
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jonathan Widawksi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former UX Lead at Bam.tech and Founder of game messaging platform Pin.gg
Thomas Mary
(Co-Founder)Thomas was Lead Developer at Playabl for nearly 2 years and, before this, CTO at Viceversa.
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