Build AI
Head of Design & Taste
$150K–$250K
San Francisco · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026
About the job
Sets and executes Build AI’s visual direction across its product, brand, website, recruiting surfaces, internal tools, merchandise, and physical objects.
What you'll do
- Own visual taste across product, brand, and other human-facing work; maintain quality while shipping quickly.
- Design and ship interfaces, layouts, merchandise, and physical objects, including collaborating on collection hardware CMF.
- Treat the website, job board, and recruiting surfaces as products, and work with product and software teams to improve internal tools.
What they ask for
- A portfolio demonstrating strong visual taste.
- Experience shipping both digital and physical or brand design.
- Design fluency with Figma or similar to create interfaces and layouts.
- Ability to operate as an individual design function rather than manage a large organization.
Nice to have
- Experience with merchandise, packaging, physical environments, factories, CMF, or hardware-adjacent objects.
- Experience as a company’s sole designer or owning a website or brand system end to end.
Pay
$150K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
Figma, Shenzhen ID/ME, CMF
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