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Director, Design
Maze
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 $176,700 - $259,800 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of designers and design managers across product areas.
- Define and champion Maze’s design vision, principles, and long-term strategy — with a focus on how design evolves in an AI-powered world.
- Shape and evangelize the design culture at Maze, setting the tone for taste, craft, and creative excellence.
- Drive the adoption of AI tools and GenAI practices within design workflows — improving creativity, speed, and quality.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure AI is thoughtfully integrated into the Maze user experience, enhancing rather than replacing human insight.
- Oversee the evolution of design systems, ensuring they are flexible enough to support AI-driven interfaces and interactions.
- Represent design at the leadership level — influencing strategy, shaping priorities, and advocating for user needs.
- Contribute hands-on to high-impact initiatives when needed, especially those defining the visual and interaction language of Maze’s AI platform.
- Use research, experimentation, and data to inform decisions and measure design’s impact.
- Drive recruiting, performance management, and career development across the design org to build a world-class design team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of product or UX design experience, including 3+ years in design leadership roles.
- Proven experience leading and scaling multi-disciplinary design teams.
- Demonstrated success influencing product strategy and driving cross-functional alignment.
- Strong portfolio of shipped products showing design excellence, innovation, and impact.
- Deep understanding of emerging design technologies, particularly AI and GenAI tools that enhance design ideation, prototyping, or user experience.
- Experience designing for or within AI-driven products or platforms.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills — able to translate complex AI concepts into clear design principles and experiences.
- A strong point of view on taste, craft, and what great design looks like in the AI era.
- Empathy for users and a passion for creating intuitive, human-centered experiences.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to set direction in fast-changing environments.
Benefits
- Health insurance with international coverage, vision, and dental: 100% of the team member premium paid
- 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
- $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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product designUX designdesign leadershipdesign systemsAI toolsGenAI practicesprototypinguser experience designdesign innovationdata-driven design
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationstorytellinginfluencingempathycreativitycollaborationadaptabilitystrategic thinkinguser advocacy
