About the role
Taste is the ability to recognize quality and explain why. It's what separates a great piece of design from a mediocre one, a great piece of writing from a flat one, a great product from a forgettable one.
We teach AI models what great looks like in the subjective domains, starting with design. The whole company is built around the idea that quality in these areas is real, measurable, and worth investing in.
We hire people who care about craft. You don't have to be a designer. You do have to have strong opinions about quality in something, and be able to back them up.
01 · What you'd own
You're the DRI of data development projects. End to end. Scoping, expert staffing, quality routing, partner delivery, scope management, margin. The person who scopes the work delivers it. Ownership doesn't rotate.
You're the connective tissue between three groups that don't naturally talk to each other: the lab researcher who needs the data, the experts producing it, and the internal team building the infrastructure. Your job is to make all three feel like they're working on the same thing.
You'll pick up projects in scoping, in scale-up, and in compounding phases. Real portfolio. The playbook is maturing, not finished, so part of the job is building it as you run it.
02 · Day to day
- You're the person the partner talks to about delivery, timeline, and quality. Not a status reporter. The decision-maker on their side of the table.
- You scope new work. Scoping is the highest-leverage phase of any engagement at Taste, and you'll spend serious time here calibrating with the partner, defining what quality means, and making sure experts understand the rubric and the reasoning behind it.
- You route quality signals to the right layer: pod lead, Heads of Design, edge case escalation. You don't escalate things that should land with you.