Arts & Design Expert

Mercor; India; Remote; INR 7,761,000 - 10,348,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking Arts & Design Experts to work remotely on AI training and evaluation projects. This standing listing connects designers and creative professionals to various projects, with pay typically in the $60–$80 per hour range per project based on scope.

You’ll provide design, writing, and visual expertise without a fixed opening, and projects start on short notice. Independent contractor status applies; payments are weekly via Stripe or Wise.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in design, writing, or a creative production discipline.
• Clear written communication is required since most work involves explaining your reasoning.
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks and willingness to flag unclear instructions.

Responsibilities

• Match creative professionals to projects by delivering briefs with audience, constraints and standards.
• Grade model-generated design, writing, and imagery on craft to assess suitability for ship-ready output.
• Coordinate with clients and Mercor teams to ensure alignment with brand, accessibility, licensing, and medium constraints.

Skills

Design experience

Written communication

Ambiguity handling

Job description

Job Overview

Arts & Design Expert

Company: Mercor

Compensation: $60

Commitment: Talent network

Location: Remote

Referral Link: https://t.mercor.com/MVV8l

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for design and creative judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against. This is a standing listing for designers and creative professionals who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week. New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.

What the work looks like

We match creative professionals in the network to projects like: Writing a brief from work you have delivered, with the audience, the constraints, and the standard the result had to meet, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against. Grading model-generated design, writing, and imagery on craft: whether the hierarchy works, whether the type and colour choices are deliberate, whether the prose earns its length. Flagging where a model's output is technically competent and would not ship, given brand, accessibility, licensing, or what the medium actually allows.

Creative listings on Mercor have posted at $60 to $80 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.

What we're looking for

• Professional experience in design, writing, or a creative production discipline
• Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions

What this covers

• Graphic and UX/UI design
• Visual arts, including painting and sculpture
• Performing arts, including music and theatre
• Film and media production; photography
• Fashion and textile design
• Writing and editing

What to expect

This listing does not accept or reject candidates, so you will not get a decision on it. We reach out when a project matches your background. Depending on what our clients are running, that can be within a week or several months. Finishing the domain expert interview and joining every network you qualify for both improve your odds of being matched. You only need to sign up once to be eligible across all of them. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

You will be engaged as an independent contractor. This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule. Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance. Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution. Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.

Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.