Head of Data Compliance
About The Position
Build AI is hiring a Head of Data Compliance to help its scaling team conduct physical-labor data collection legally and with appropriate consent. The role creates the documents and operational controls needed to ensure collection, storage, and use are compliant, while helping operations scale without delays caused by incomplete paperwork. The position develops and maintains consent and worker or contractor terms, privacy notices, retention practices, and cross-border transfer documentation for in-the-wild collection. It embeds privacy-by-design into collection workflows—including consent capture, data minimization, retention and deletion, and access controls—and works with operations, marketplace, and software teams to make consent and legal requirements part of the product workflow. The role also addresses trade and cross-border issues for collection devices and data, including US, China, and new-country operations, and checks that actual practices match the governing documents. Build AI is a fully in-person team in San Francisco (Financial District) and Shenzhen (Nanshan). The company describes itself as fast-moving and values engineering skills and cross-disciplinary work. The role is expected to help enable ambitious collection and expansion across countries.
Requirements
- Experience in privacy, employment or contractor compliance, or data-collection compliance at an operating company; policy theory alone is not sufficient.
- Ability to write compliance documents and ensure they reflect and work in field operations.
- A view of legal work as an enabler of scale rather than a brake.
- Willingness to work with in-the-wild physical-labor data collection and a fast-moving company operating across countries.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with cross-border data involving the US, China, or new countries.
- Familiarity with trade or export issues involving hardware and datasets.
- Experience with employment or contractor law in physical workplaces.
- Experience writing consent flows that operators have used.
- Familiarity with retention and deletion, data minimization, or privacy-by-design in a product.
Responsibilities
- Write and maintain consent documents, contractor and worker terms, privacy notices, retention documentation, and cross-border transfer documents for in-the-wild collection.
- Embed privacy-by-design in collection workflows, including consent capture, data minimization, retention and deletion, and access controls.
- Make collection strategies legally workable before teams begin operating in new countries or setups.
- Work with operations, marketplace, and software teams to integrate consent and legal requirements into product workflows.
- Handle trade and cross-border issues for collection devices and data, including determining what can and cannot move between the US, China, and new countries.
- Verify that actual practices match the documents and close compliance gaps.
Benefits
- Competitive pay.
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage.
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits.
- Housing subsidy of $2,000 per month for employees living within walking distance of the office.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Francisco (Financial District) or Shenzhen (Nanshan).
- Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more.
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office.
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.
- Unlimited Codex and Claude credits.
- Travel.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
