AI-Driven UX/UI Design Lead (Remote)

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 82,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Design Expert to lead AI‑driven product design across rapid prototyping and design systems. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ship vibecoding workflows and design tooling in a remote setting.

The role emphasizes seniority in product design, AI‑native engineering, and user‑centered design principles, with an emphasis on prototyping and design systems. This is a contract position offering hourly compensation.

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

5+ years of product design

AI‑native engineering

Vibecoding

User‑centered design

Tools

Figma

Cursor

Claude Code

Replit

Framer

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Design Expert to lead AI‑driven product design across rapid prototyping and design systems. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ship vibecoding workflows and design tooling in a remote setting.

The role emphasizes seniority in product design, AI‑native engineering, and user‑centered design principles, with an emphasis on prototyping and design systems. This is a contract position offering hourly compensation.