Head of Design & Taste

Build AI•San Francisco, CA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

Build AI is hiring a designer to shape the visual identity and experience of the company across its products, brand, website, job board, internal tools, merchandise, and other touchpoints. The role requires setting the company’s visual direction and personally making the work, including physical merchandise and objects—not only digital designs in Figma. The designer will work with the Product Lead and software team, and may collaborate with Shenzhen industrial design and mechanical engineering teams on color, material, and finish decisions for collection hardware. The position is suited to someone who can function as the company’s design function, maintain a high visual bar while moving quickly, and has shipped both digital and physical or brand work. Build AI describes itself as a data hyperscaler for Physical AI, vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, data collection, and model training. The company is fully in-person, with teams in San Francisco’s Financial District and Shenzhen’s Nanshan district.

Requirements

Demonstrable design taste, evidenced by a portfolio; credentials are secondary.
Experience shipping both digital and physical or brand work.
Design fluency with Figma or a similar tool sufficient to create interfaces and layouts directly.
Ability to operate as the design function rather than manage a large design organization.

Nice To Haves

Experience with merchandise, packaging, or physical environments in addition to product UI.
Experience as the only designer at a company while continuing to ship work.
Familiarity with factories, color/material/finish (CMF), or hardware-adjacent objects.
Experience owning a website or brand system end to end.

Responsibilities

Own visual taste across the product, brand, and other things people see.
Treat the website, job board, and recruiting surfaces as products to ship and maintain.
Create interfaces, artifacts, and merchandise that represent a company people want to join and buy from.
Design merchandise and physical objects.
Work with Shenzhen industrial design and mechanical engineering teams on collection-hardware color, material, and finish when needed.
Work with the Product Lead and software team so internal tools are designed well.
Maintain a high visual bar while working quickly.

Benefits

Competitive pay.
Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage.
$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits.
$2,000 per month housing subsidy for those living within walking distance of the office.
Relocation support for people 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.