Domain Lead (Development)

Domain Lead (Development) ABOUT BUILD AI for the Built World: Build has created the agentic AI stack for institutional real estate, automating complex development and acquisitions workflows 90% faster than humans to accelerate the world’s most important built projects - digital infrastructure, energy, industrial - from concept to completion. Our mission is to accelerate and amplify the world's most important built projects - inventing a better way to build through a collaboration between human experts and agentic AI. We envision a future where the world's buildings are driven from concept to completion, autonomously. Without delays, cost, and complexity. Enabling people to deliver a magnitude more deals. To make decisions, build relationships and create. To start, we're partnering with the world's biggest built world institutions from $T alternative assets investors, prolific developers and even governments to push the frontier of what's possible. We’re backed by c-suite from Blackstone and OpenAI alongside the world’s best venture capital firms. Join us in shaping the future of the Built World and exponentially accelerate your career in the process. We welcome you to do your life's work here. ABOUT THE ROLE This role exists to ensure Build reflects how institutional projects actually get built. The Domain Lead role brings a deep, end-to-end understanding of real estate development and uses it to drive results for partners and direction for the company. It carries direct responsibility for outcomes across live projects, new product definition, and partner success. You are the source of truth for how development really works when projects are large, capital-intensive, and high-stakes. You will work closely with James SE https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-stirrat/. You can expect to: - Own deep domain understanding across the full development lifecycle: site selection, feasibility, underwriting, entitlements, approvals, financing, delivery, and exit. - Represent the developer’s perspective inside Build, ensuring product decisions reflect real incentives, constraints, and risk. - Drive tangible outcomes for partners by applying Build’s platform to live projects and measuring success in time, certainty, and capital efficiency. - Identify where development processes break down or slow materially, and turn those failure points into new product lines. - Translate development judgment into clear workflows, assumptions, and decision frameworks that can be encoded into software. - Work directly with partners to scope engagements, define success criteria, and align Build’s work to their internal decision-making processes. - Own delivery quality from a domain perspective. If the product does not hold up in a real project environment, it is your responsibility to surface and correct it. - Execute on POC’s for new workflows by doing the work yourself alongside an engineer to support you with Build’s systems. - Craft reusable development logic that allows Build to serve many projects without bespoke analysis. - Act as a trusted peer to senior developers, investors, and public stakeholders by speaking their language with credibility. HOW TO WIN AT BUILD Growing Build requires a radically different approach to company building. As a company we’re focused on one outcome: winning. That means we move fast, work with intensity, and demand excellence from ourselves. We operate with intensity but create an environment that allows for a lot of fun together. The result is that we're one of the fastest shipping teams in vertical AI, partnering with the best to automate the world around us. Performance and teamwork are the core of Build’s operation. We look for those who are able to do both, who often exhibit a particular ability for; - Velocity: You are relentless in asking the right questions to set direction. Once you find the right direction you go all-in. - Excellence: You obsess with being the best. For you, excellence is a ... (truncated, view full listing at source)