mazedesign - VP of People (Remote, US)

• Be a strategic partner to the business • Partner closely with the CEO and executive team to shape organizational strategy, business priorities, and leadership effectiveness. • Guide organizational design, workforce planning, and change management as Maze evolves. • Bring sound judgment, business acumen, and a thoughtful perspective to complex people and business decisions. • Help strengthen how our executive team operates, makes decisions, and communicates across the company. • Bring a global perspective to executive decisions, surfacing the employment, compliance, and cultural implications across the countries where we operate before decisions are made. • Lead, develop, and empower the People team • Lead and develop a talented People team, building on their strengths and creating meaningful opportunities for growth. • Foster a culture of trust, autonomy, and accountability where team members are empowered to own decisions, solve problems, and lead within their areas of expertise. • Act as a coach and thought partner, helping the team navigate challenges, build new capabilities, and expand their influence across the business. • Set clear priorities and create the space, resources, and support the team needs to do impactful work without unnecessary complexity. • Build and develop a high-performing organization • Lead our talent strategy, ensuring we're attracting, hiring, and retaining the people needed to achieve our business goals. • Partner with leaders to build strong teams, clarify expectations, and develop managers who bring out the best in their people. • Evolve our performance management, career development, and recognition programs to reinforce accountability and meaningful impact. • Use engagement data, employee feedback, and business context to identify opportunities to improve the employee experience. • Own compensation, benefits, and People operations • Navigate complex employee relations and employment matters with sound judgment, empathy, and consistency. • Oversee our global total rewards strategy, including compensation, equity, benefits, and pay transparency. • Ensure our People operations are efficient, scalable, and compliant across the countries where we operate. • Partner closely with Finance on headcount planning, compensation strategy, and responsible investment in our team. • Shape our culture through growth and change • Help preserve and evolve what makes Maze special as our business strategy and organization change. • Build trust through clear communication, transparency, and thoughtful change management. • Create meaningful opportunities for connection, recognition, and collaboration across a distributed team. • Help leaders translate our values into everyday decisions, behaviors, and ways of working. • Build a modern, AI-enabled People function • Bring an AI-first mindset to how the People team operates, identifying ways to simplify work, improve decision-making, and increase our impact. • Use technology, data, and automation to make People programs more effective and scalable. • Champion effective AI use across Maze, helping teams and leaders move beyond basic prompting to workflows and automation that make a real difference in how they work. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • Success in this role means building on an already strong foundation while helping Maze navigate its next stage of growth. • In your first year, you'll have: • Established yourself as a trusted thought partner to the CEO and executive team, bringing clarity and sound judgment to important business decisions. • Built a strong partnership with the existing People team, helping each person grow in their role, increase their ownership, and feel empowered to make meaningful contributions to the business. • Built strong relationships with managers across Maze, becoming a go-to partner who helps them navigate team challenges, difficult conversations, and change. • Strengthened our hiring, performance, development, and total rewards programs to retain our people and land the strategic hires that matter most. • Helped build a culture where employees understand our direction, feel connected to our mission, and know what's expected of them. • Brought an AI-first approach to the People function, streamlining how we work so the team can spend more time on high-impact work.