Remote AI Design Systems Lead for Rapid Prototyping

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Design Expert for a remote contract role in the United States. The position focuses on creating AI-assisted product design workflows, building design systems, and driving rapid prototyping across cross-functional teams.

Qualified candidates will have 5+ years as a product designer or AI-native engineer, direct ownership of design systems, and fluency in vibecoding and user-centered design methods to deliver shipped work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years 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 involving tools such as AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Replit) for the Vibecoding subdomain, and Figma, prototyping tools (Framer), and design systems tooling for the Design subdomain.
• Apply subdomain-specific methodologies (iterative prompt-driven development for Vibecoding; human-centered design principles and heuristic evaluation for Design).
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic senior-level product judgment from generic tutorial-level or template-driven work.

Skills

Vibecoding

Rapid prototyping

User-centered design

Design systems

Product design leadership

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

v0

Replit

Figma

Framer

Design systems tooling

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Design Expert for a remote contract role in the United States. The position focuses on creating AI-assisted product design workflows, building design systems, and driving rapid prototyping across cross-functional teams.

Qualified candidates will have 5+ years as a product designer or AI-native engineer, direct ownership of design systems, and fluency in vibecoding and user-centered design methods to deliver shipped work.