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Staff Product Designer

BuildOps
San Francisco, USAfull_timePosted 30 Jul 2026

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<p><strong>About the Job</strong></p> <p>At BuildOps, we're building a groundbreaking software solution designed to empower today's commercial contractors. From service management to project execution, we're reimagining how our customers operate. Our team thrives on ambition, innovation, and collaboration—qualities we look for in every new hire.</p> <p>As a&nbsp;<strong>Staff Product Designer</strong>, you'll be one of the most senior individual contributors on the design team and the design lead for a cluster of our most complex, highest-stakes domains—financial workflows (inventory &amp; procurement, AP &amp; payments, Financial OS), AI, and mobile. Reporting to the <strong>Head of Design</strong>, you'll own design quality across these areas: doing hands-on, end-to-end work on the hardest problems yourself, while setting the bar and giving direction to the other designers working in your domains. Think of it as how our strongest leads operate—deep in the work every day, leveling up everyone around them, no formal management required.</p> <p>You'll move fluidly to wherever the most critical work is&nbsp;<em>within</em> your domains—spiking on a redesign one month, a new set of agents the next—always accountable for how the whole cluster comes together. This role is perfect for someone energized by ambiguous, high-complexity problems who moves fast and wants outsized impact at a well-funded, fast-moving company.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own design quality across your domain cluster—financial workflows, AI, and mobile—taking the hardest problems from ambiguity to engineering-ready solution yourself, and ensuring the rest of the work in those areas meets a high bar</li> <li>Give direction and mentorship to the designers working in your domains, leveling up both the work and the people without acting as their formal manager</li> <li>Design experiences for our AI and agentic capabilities, turning complex system behavior into flows that feel intuitive and trustworthy</li> <li>Simplify deeply complex enterprise workflows—including ERP integrations and financial operations—turning dense, data-rich problems into clarity for our users</li> <li>Help reshape our mobile app into an experience our field users love, partnering across product and engineering</li> <li>Set the standard for design craft and AI-native ways of working, and bring that bar to design reviews through your own work and sharp, constructive feedback</li> <li>Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and QA to understand constraints, pressure-test ideas, and ship quickly</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We Look For</strong></p> <ul> <li>8+ years of product design experie

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