Director Demand Generation
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About the role
We're looking for a Director, Demand Generation to own the programs and pipeline that fuel Maze's growth. You'll be the connective tissue between strategy and execution, diagnosing where the funnel breaks, building campaigns that fix it, and working in lockstep with Sales and Business Operations to turn demand into revenue. This is a role for someone who genuinely cares about the product research space and the teams we serve, is informed by data, moves fast, and is always thinking about the next iteration. This is a senior individual contributor role with the opportunity to build and lead a team over time.
Responsibilities
- Own top-of-funnel demand generation with a clear focus on leads, MQLs, and pipeline creation, primarily for new business with a meaningful eye on expansion
- Develop and execute demand generation strategy by continuously identifying gaps in the funnel and proposing, testing, and deploying solutions
- Manage paid campaigns in collaboration with our agency partners across existing channels, while actively researching and piloting new ones, iterating based on what the data tells you
- Plan and execute field marketing programs including conferences and executive events designed to create pipeline and accelerate deals already in motion
- Build and maintain lead and MQL forecasting models so the team always has a reliable, data-backed view of where we stand and what levers to pull
- Recommend greenfield opportunities for us, including new channels, and piloting tests to validate performance
- Own campaign operations including lead flow, routing logic, and data integrity across our marketing ops stack, working closely with Sales and Business Operations
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in demand generation at a B2B SaaS company
- Experience in the user or market research industry and empathy for our ICP - you understand who we're selling to, what they care about, and how to reach them in ways that resonate
- A track record of successfully driving leads, MQLs, and pipeline through a mix of paid programs, field marketing, and multi-channel campaigns
- The ability to own direction and outcomes for demand generation, balancing short-term execution with longer-term strategy
- Strong analytical instincts with a habit of using data as the basis for decisions, building forecasts with rigor, and translating funnel metrics into clear business narratives
- Experience managing paid campaigns through agency relationships and holding partners accountable to performance
- Hands-on familiarity with marketing automation and CRM tools, and a solid understanding of how data flows between them
- A bias for experimentation you approach demand gen with curiosity, iterate quickly, and know that not every test will work
- Collaborative by nature, with strong working relationships across Marketing, Sales, and Business Operations
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, able to identify what's broken, structure a plan to fix it, and move without waiting for perfect information
- Inclusivity and Pay
- Maze values transparency and it enables us to approach compensation equit
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Additional Information
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 .
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