Creative Director (IC)

Digitailor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-annual bonus

Equity grant

Relocation bonus

Housing bonus

Meal stipend

Equinox membership

Laundry reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Senior Brand Designer to shape and scale our visual identity across campaigns, web, social, and events. You will collaborate with marketing, product, recruiting, and leadership to bring Mercor's story to life.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in brand or visual design, a strong portfolio, and the ability to move fast while preserving quality. This role is based in San Francisco, with offices in SF/NYC/London and offers competitive equity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in brand, visual, or graphic design.
• Experience designing across web, social, campaigns, decks, and marketing surfaces.
• Able to operate autonomously and deliver high-quality creative work.

Responsibilities

• Own evolution of Mercor's brand identity across touchpoints.
• Translate AI, talent, and work into clear visual systems.
• Create polished brand assets: landing pages, decks, social graphics, ads.
• Develop scalable brand system, templates, guidelines.

Skills

Brand design

Typography

Layout

Storytelling

Visual systems

Campaign design

Web design

Social graphics

Job description

About Mercor Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents. Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You'll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

What You'll Do

Own the evolution of Mercor's brand identity across every external and internal touchpoint, from campaigns and launches to web, social, and events Translate complex ideas about AI, talent, and work into clear, compelling visual systems Create polished, high-impact brand assets, including landing pages, decks, social graphics, ads, illustrations, event collateral, and product marketing visuals Develop and maintain a distinctive, modern visual language Partner closely with marketing, product, recruiting, and leadership to bring Mercor's story to life across channels Help build a scalable brand system, templates, and guidelines that make the company look consistently excellent as we grow Bring strong taste, speed, and originality to a fast-moving team with a high creative bar Qualifications Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, brand systems, typography, layout, and storytelling Passion for building brands that feel distinctive, polished, and culturally relevant 5+ years in brand, visual, or graphic design, ideally at fast-moving startups, agencies, or high-bar creative teams Experience designing across web, social, campaigns, decks, and marketing surfaces Proven ability to operate autonomously, take ambiguous ideas, and turn them into excellent creative work Strong taste, attention to detail, and ability to move quickly without sacrificing quality Bonus: Experience designing for AI, marketplaces, recruiting, fintech, or other complex technical products At Mercor, we recognize that exceptional ability comes in all forms, a core philosophy on which we built our platform. Because of this, we welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds with unique experiences and transferable skill sets, even if they don’t meet all the preferred qualifications listed above.

Benefits

Bi-annual performance bonus structure Generous equity grant vested over 4 years Up to $15k relocation bonus $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office) $1.5K monthly stipend for meals Free Equinox membership $200 monthly laundry reimbursement $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement Health, Dental, Vision insurance