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About the Role

Handoff is seeking a Construction Specialist to ensure the quality of blueprint-based estimates for enterprise customers. This role involves validating takeoffs, scopes, and material matching against customer standards, enabling quick and accurate field execution. It's an opportunity for individuals with strong construction and estimating backgrounds to influence product development in an AI-driven environment.

Responsibilities

Own Estimate Quality: Act as the primary point of contact between Handoff AI and enterprise construction teams, ensuring estimates meet customer-specific expectations.
Validate Blueprint Takeoffs: Run structured quality checks on takeoffs and estimates, ensuring alignment with real-world scopes, quantities, and specifications.
Improve Estimating Systems: Maintain and refine estimating knowledge bases, templates, and material classifiers to improve consistency and accuracy.
Material & SKU Matching: Ensure contractor material lists are correctly mapped to enterprise vendor SKUs, including preferred brands, product lines, and availability.
Debug Estimation Issues: Investigate failures by reviewing AI system logs, workflows, and outputs to identify root causes across logic, data, or configuration.
Run Test Scenarios: Execute structured test estimates to validate improvements and ensure outputs meet defined quality thresholds.
Translate Field Expertise: Convert contractor feedback into actionable insights for Product and Engineering teams.
Document & Report Issues: Create clear, reproducible bug reports and prioritize improvements based on impact.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product and Engineering to test features, improve workflows, and ship higher-quality outputs.
Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify recurring failure patterns and propose scalable fixes to improve system performance.

Requirements

3+ years of residential construction experience (remodeling, custom homes, or design-build)
1–2+ years of experience in construction material purchasing or sales, with strong understanding of product selection, SKUs, and availability
Hands-on experience with blueprint takeoffs using tools like PlanSwift, Bluebeam, or OST
Familiarity with estimating platforms such as Buildertrend, JobTread, Joist, STACK, or CoConstruct
Deep understanding of end-to-end residential construction workflows - from foundation through finishes
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex issues into root causes
Comfortable working with technical systems, logs, and structured workflows
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in cross-functional environments
High ownership mindset with a bias for action and continuous improvement
Experience working closely with software, product, or engineering teams (Bonus)

Skills

Blueprint takeoffs
Construction estimating
Material purchasing
Sales
Product selection
SKU management
Construction workflows
Analytical skills
Problem-solving
Technical systems
Log analysis
Structured workflows
Written communication
Verbal communication
Cross-functional collaboration

Location

Austin
São Paulo
Buenos Aires

Work Type

Distributed
Full-time

Experience Level

3+ years of residential construction experience
1-2+ years of experience in construction material purchasing or sales

Salary/Compensations

Competitive Salary + Equity

Benefits

Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
401(k)
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Life & Disability Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Dependent Care FSA (DC FSA)
Relocation Allowance
Top-Notch Equipment
Team Offsites

About the Company

Handoff is the AI agent that runs a construction company, helping remodelers automate estimating, streamline operations, and win more work.
The platform supports over 10,000 monthly active users and $6B in annualized project volume.
Handoff is backed by $25M+ raised from Y Combinator, Initialized, and Greycroft.
The team is distributed across hubs in Austin, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires.
The company is focused on building intuitive, high-impact solutions that make a real difference for users.

Equal Opportunity

Handoff is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Handoff is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
Handoff will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
Handoff encourages applicants of all ages.
Handoff also participates in E-Verify.