Senior AI-Driven UX/UI Designer - Remote Contract

mercor; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 73,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

We seek a Design Expert for a remote contract position to lead AI-assisted design workflows and rapid prototyping across cross-functional teams. The role emphasizes vibecoding, user-centered design principles, and ownership of design systems and production workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years working as a product designer, design lead, or AI-native engineer/vibecoder at a major product- or design-forward company.
• Direct ownership of product design systems or AI-assisted development workflows shipped to production.
• Fluency in vibecoding or design tooling, plus understanding of user-centered design principles and rapid prototyping practices.

Responsibilities

• Construct scenarios spanning rapid prototyping, design system development, and cross-functional product-design-engineering collaboration.
• Build tasks across AI-assisted application development, natural-language-to-code workflows, and rapid prototyping (Vibecoding) and UX/UI design, design systems, and component libraries.
• Develop scenarios using tools such as AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Replit) and Figma, prototyping tools (Framer), and design systems tooling.
• Apply subdomain-specific methodologies like iterative prompt-driven development for Vibecoding and human-centered design principles for Design.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic senior-level product judgment from generic tutorial-level work.

Skills

Product design

Design leadership

AI-native engineering

Vibecoding

User-centered design

Tools

Figma

Framer

Cursor

Claude Code

Replit

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

We seek a Design Expert for a remote contract position to lead AI-assisted design workflows and rapid prototyping across cross-functional teams. The role emphasizes vibecoding, user-centered design principles, and ownership of design systems and production workflows.