Arts & Design Expert

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking versatile designers and creative professionals to join a standing listing for AI-design evaluation and training work. Projects start on short notice and match across design, writing, and visual arts, with compensation posted per project.

You will assess model outputs, draft briefs, and explain your reasoning clearly, even on ambiguous instructions. A strong portfolio matters more than credentials, and eligibility spans multiple creative disciplines.

Qualifications

• Portfolio matters more than credentials.
• Clear written communication to explain your reasoning.
• Comfort with ambiguity and flag unclear instructions.

Responsibilities

• Match projects in design, writing, or visual arts to client briefs.
• Evaluate model-generated outputs for craft, hierarchy, typography, and tone.
• Flag where outputs would not ship due to brand, accessibility, or licensing constraints.

Skills

Design

Writing

Creative production

Job description

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

This pool spans arts and design, including:

• 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

A portfolio matters more than a credential here. What we most need is your ability to say why something works.

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.