Corporate Designer - Aesthetics Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is hiring Corporate Designers for Project Style, an aesthetics project focused on refining AI-generated knowledge-work deliverables such as decks, docs, and PDFs. You will judge and improve candidate outputs to achieve publish-ready quality with strong content and design.

Your judgments influence how AI models present business materials used by consulting firms, banks, or internal design teams. The role emphasizes precise layout critique and clear written rationale.

Qualifications

• Background as a designer, marketing/comms professional, or knowledge-work specialist.
• Spot subtle layout inconsistencies such as alignment gaps, misaligned cards, dead space, and margins.
• Be able to articulate what “good” looks like in business deliverables in writing.
• Care about presentation, not just content.

Responsibilities

• Compare AI-generated versions of the same deliverable and score them across layout, typography, colour, and polish.
• Take the strongest candidate and rework it to reference quality.
• Provide clear justifications tied to specific layout evidence (alignment, spacing, balance, grouping, density).
• Bring design judgment to real corporate client materials.

Skills

Design background

Layout critique

Written communication

Job description

About the role

Mercor is hiring Corporate Designers for Project Style — an aesthetics project in which experts review sets of AI-generated knowledge-work deliverables (decks, docs, spreadsheets, PDFs) and rework the strongest one until it's genuinely well-made, on both content and design.

Your work directly shapes how AI models produce polished, publish-ready knowledge work — the kind of output a consulting firm, investment bank, or in-house design team would send to a client without embarrassment.

What you'll do

• Compare AI-generated versions of the same deliverable and score them across layout & spacing, typography, colour, domain realism, and polish
• Take the strongest candidate and rework it to reference quality
• Provide clear justifications tied to specific layout evidence (alignment, spacing, balance, grouping, density)
• Bring your design judgment to real corporate client materials

You're a good fit if you

• Have a background as a designer, marketing/comms professional, or knowledge-work specialist — management consulting, investment banking, in-house corporate design, agency work, and marcom all fit
• Spot subtle layout inconsistencies most people miss: alignment gaps, unequal card heights, dead space, margin discipline
• Are opinionated about what "good" looks like in a business deliverable and can articulate it in writing
• Care about how work is presented, not just what it says

Rate and commitment

• $80/hour, hourly
• Approximately 15 hours per week
• Fully remote

Screening

• The assessment measures how well your ratings of real deliverables track against a calibrated answer key on the layout & spacing axis