Senior Brand Designer, Maze
$104-141k
Salary stated is for US candidates. Salary for EMEA candidates: $83.5K – $113K + Equity for all locations
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User research platform
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User research platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$104-141k
Salary stated is for US candidates. Salary for EMEA candidates: $83.5K – $113K + Equity for all locations
More information about location
101-200 employees
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
- 5+ years of experience in brand design with a portfolio demonstrating expertise in visual design, branding, and web experiences
- Amazing taste with the ability to clearly articulate the ‘why’ behind creative decisions
- Experience creating and maintaining a brand visual system
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite and more
- Experience leading design projects, including collaborating with cross-functional teams and offering timely and relevant feedback to drive design projects forward
- Online portfolio that showcases project work, clearly outlining your role and contribution within each project
- Portfolio evidence creating motion graphics and animations
- Experience maintaining brand across channels and campaigns
- Strong communication skills and ability to present and articulate design concepts and ideas
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment and manage cross-functionally projects
- Experience working and leading projects in a fully remote environment
What the job involves
- Maze is hiring a creative, dynamic Brand Designer to join our Marketing team and help evolve our brand and establish the foundations to scale with the business
- This role will work closely with partners across Product, Design, and our leadership team to build and scale the brand design function at Maze and execute design strategies that enhance our brand identity and drive engagement
- The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for what resonates in Enterprise, a strong understanding of branding principles, and the ability to create visually compelling graphics that elevate our brand
- Formalize Maze’s brand guidelines and visual systems, including layouts, typography, color palettes, and other visual elements
- Evolve Maze’s brand system to bring consistency and scale across all customer touch-points
- Evolve the Maze’s website to effectively communicate our value proposition and positioning
- Partner across Marketing to conceptualize and execute campaigns and assets that drive our go-to-market motion
- Design a wide range of marketing materials, including digital and print ads, social media graphics, website elements, email templates, presentations, and promotional items
- Manage multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to deadlines
- Manage vendors and freelancers to scale brand design projects
- Creating engaging motion graphics or animations for brand promotion and storytelling
- Ability to simplify and translate complex product UI or flows into clear and effective assets
- Familiarity with working product design systems to build cohesion between the marketing and product experience
Application process
- Please include a link to your portfolio in your application
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
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
- ThanksBen Pers at Work
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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