Never take gubernatorial transition teams at face value. They are about symbolism, not substance.

The two teams announced by Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo yesterday are exquisitely balanced exercises in political correctness — and the conflicting racial, social and economic interests they represent are so profound that the panels would be hard-pressed to agree on the day of the week.

Even so, one name stands out.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is a member of Cuomo’s economic-development advisory team. That would be the same Ruben Diaz Jr. who a) presides over a borough with a 13 percent-plus jobless unemployment rate, and b) torched 2,200 jobs at the proposed Kingsbridge Armory shopping plaza in 2009, just because retail-union bosses told him to. (See Adam Brodsky’s column on the opposite page.)

“The notion that any job is better than no jobs no longer applies [in The Bronx],” he said then. How pitiful.

So, too, is Cuomo’s decision to embrace Diaz in this way; it sends a profoundly unhelpful message to folks considering the wisdom of investing in New York.

Symbols sometimes actually do matter.