Build Ai

Head of Design & Taste

San Francisco, California, United States · On-site · FullTime

USD 150,000–250,000/year

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EmployerBuild Ai
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Work styleOn-site
Employment typeFullTime
Employer posted1 month ago
Salary (as stated by the employer)USD 150,000 – 250,000 per year

About Build AI

Build AI is the data hyperscaler for Physical AI. We're vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude faster than anyone in the world.

Job Summary

We’re hiring someone whose job is to make everything beautiful: product, site, job board, internal tools, merch, and the way we show up in the world. Taste is the requirement. You will set what Build looks and feels like, then actually make it — including merch and physical stuff, not only Figma.

Key Responsibilities

Own visual taste across product, brand, and anything a human sees

Treat the website, job board, and recruiting surfaces as products you ship, not a vendor deck

Make interfaces, artifacts, and merch that look like a company people want to join and buy from

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Design merch and physical objects (and work with Shenzhen ID/ME on collection hardware CMF when taste is on the line)

Work with Product Lead and software so tools aren’t ugly by default

Keep a high bar when we move fast so “shipping” doesn’t mean looking cheap

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Taste is obvious in your work. Portfolio over credentials

You’ve shipped both digital and physical/brand (merch, packaging, environments a plus)

Enough design fluency (Figma or similar) to ship interfaces and layouts yourself

You can operate as the design function, not manage a 20-person org

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Merch, packaging, or physical environments, not only product UI

You have been the only designer in a company and still shipped

Familiarity with factory, CMF, or hardware-adjacent objects

Experience owning a website or brand system end to end

Benefits

Competitive pay

Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage

$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits

Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office

Relocation support for those moving to San Francisco (Financial District) or Shenzhen (Nanshan)

Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more

Daily lunch and dinner in our office

Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

Unlimited Codex and Claude credits

Travel

How we're different

Build believes in the Bitter Lesson. By taking a general approach of learning from humans, our addressable market is all physical labor.

We are a fully in-person team in San Francisco (Financial District) and Shenzhen (Nanshan), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.

Build AI is an equal opportunity employer. We review every application. If you do not meet every bullet, still apply. Questions: research@build.ai

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