Fractional Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

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 https://www.uxtools.co/survey/user-research/user-testing-overview—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 https://maze.co/about-us/. Remote | Contract (Fractional) The Role We're looking for a fractional CFO to serve as a strategic finance partner to our executive team. We have a strong Finance Director who owns the operational finance function. This role is focused on the strategic layer: helping our leadership team frame the financial dimensions of our biggest decisions, guiding our capital strategy, and bringing an external network and pattern recognition built from experience. What You'll Do You'll join our leadership rhythm on a regular cadence (weekly with the exec team, quarterly board prep) and serve as a thinking partner on the decisions that matter most. Specifically: - Help the exec team evaluate where to invest, where to pull back, and how to think about growth versus efficiency at our stage - Guide our capital strategy across the full range of options - Partner with our Finance Director as a thought partner who sharpens strategic thinking and elevates the team’s work with the exec team and board - Grow relationships across banking partners, investors, corporate development contacts, and advisors who've guided companies through similar inflection points - Help shape board materials and be available for board conversations when financial strategy is on the agenda About You You've been the CFO, VP Finance, or Head of Finance at one or more venture-backed SaaS companies through the $10M to $100M ARR range. You've been in the room for consequential decisions and you've helped leadership teams navigate them with clarity. You've likely done several of the following: - Led or been deeply involved in fundraising (Series B through growth rounds) and can speak fluently about term sheets, investor dynamics, and the tradeoffs founders make - Evaluated or participated in key company events and understand what makes a company attractive, how to run a process, and when to walk away - Worked with venture debt providers and understand when debt is smart capital and when it creates more risk than it solves - Built or refined the financial operating cadence for a scaling SaaS company and know which metrics actually drive decisions You've chosen the fractional model intentionally. You're comfortable with founder-led company dynamics. You understand SaaS economics deeply (unit economics, cohort analysis, net revenue retention, CAC payback, Rule of 40) and use them as real analytical tools. You have a network in the SaaS and venture ecosystem that opens doors when we need introductions. Engagement Details - Commitment: Approximately 15 to 25 hours per month, with flexibility to scale during board prep, fundraising, or strategic moments - Duration: Initial 6-month engagement with mutual option to extend - Location: Remote. Our team is distributed globally. - Start date: Spring 2026 INCLUSIVITY AND PAY At Maze, we are dedicated to building an equitable, inclusive, and authentic workspace. Unique and diverse perspectives are welcomed, and continuous growth is encouraged. We believe that people are more than their resumes, so if your past experience looks different than the criteria listed, we'd still love to hear from you. We appreciate and celebrate non-traditional life routes and encourage you to apply should you connect with a job description or the Maze culture.  Maze values transparency and it enables us to approach compensation equitably across the world. We are informed by data and regularly check our salary ranges (either United States or Rest of World) against other venture backed companies. Additionally, we are proud of our holistic and generous benefits offerings, included in every compensation package. Your salary is dependent upon many factors, including years of experience, expertise, etc. During your first interview, you can expect to have an open conversation with your recruiter regarding your compensation expectations. WHY MAZE IS UNIQUE - Early-stage startup: You will join an early-stage startup with less than 150 team members. This means you'll have the unique opportunity to directly impact success and help shape the future of Maze. - Market disruption: We believe that the way companies build products is fundamentally broken and the user research market is ripe for disruption. For too long, companies have been forced to choose between rapid development without user insights or investing months into research before bringing products to market. But there's finally a groundswell building around a path forward that eliminates this compromise - and Maze is leading the charge. - Product-market Fit: Maze is used by 100,000+ brands across 4,000 companies, from SMB to enterprises, and in the last fiscal year, we saw 6.5M questions answered, supporting 25K decisions BENEFITS - Health insurance with international coverage, vision, and dental: 100% of the team member premium paid - For some locations, coverage options vary, please see our benefits pages https://mazedesign.notion.site/Benefits-Full-Time-Team-Member-fac6236ca0d6452dbc659a1947d89317 for more information - 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 - If you don't have dependents to add to your plan, you will still get access to this money to be used at your discretion to get the benefits that matter to you with our flexible a-maze-ing benefits - gym memberships, co-working spaces, food, travel, whatever! - $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 http://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 Check out all of our a-maze-ing benefits here https://mazedesign.notion.site/Benefits-fac6236ca0d6452dbc659a1947d89317.  OUTREACH NOTICE We understand you might be excited about the job you’re applying for, we are excited you are interested! However, please refrain from reaching out to our current team members on LinkedIn for referrals. Our policy is that referrals can only be provided by team members who personally know the candidate. With the high volume of interest in our roles, contacting our team members who are not involved in recruitment can be overwhelming. Additionally, please avoid submitting support tickets regarding your application, as our support team is not involved in the hiring process. Rest assured, our recruitment team is diligently reviewing all applications and will reach out directly if there is a match.