[Hiring] Principal Designer @MazeMultiplayer

Role Description

We're seeking a Principal Designer with a proven ability to define what excellence looks like across the studio, backed by strong visual design skills that set the standard for the rest of the team. This includes:

• Developing frameworks, training, and craft standards that make excellence repeatable at scale.
• Advising leads and senior leads on craft strategy.
• Identifying where the studio’s craft standards need to evolve.
• Representing the studio at the highest levels, both with senior client stakeholders and within the broader design industry.

Job Overview:

• Uphold the studio’s standard of what excellence looks like, and create the conditions for it to be repeatable and scalable.
• Hold a level of specialization in visual design that is recognized beyond the studio, by clients, peers, and the broader design industry.
• Set design vision and strategy for clients, and tie it back to their business goals.
• Work across a portfolio of large, complex products.
• Advise Leads and Senior Leads on design strategy and approach across their projects.
• Bring clients and our designers together and get everyone aligned in the same direction, often influencing without direct authority.
• Develop frameworks or principles that embed quality into how the studio operates, not just how individuals work.
• Identify where the studio’s design standards and practices need to evolve in response to shifts in client needs, AI, technology, or industry norms, and lead that evolution proactively.
• Communicate at the Director, VP, and C-suite level with confidence, translating design perspective into business and organizational language.
• Use storytelling to bring the design vision to life, building buy-in with clients and uniting teams.
• Represent the studio at the highest-profile external moments, such as keynotes, panels, and major publications.
• Support business development by lending design credibility to client conversations and pitches.
• Embrace and contribute to our culture of continuous creative improvement, innovation, and excellence, and always search for ways to help make a positive impact on the team!

Qualifications

• Proven 10 years full-time industry experience as a product designer.
• Portfolio we can access.
• Must have a minimum 3-hour overlap with Toronto EST timezone.

Benefits

• $160,000 - $200,000 annually.
• Work from anywhere.
• Annual 15% discretionary bonus.
• Paid time off (over 20 days).
• Health benefits.
• Training & development opportunities.
• Annual team-wide trip.