Remote AI-Driven Product Designer & Design Systems Lead

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

Job summary

Mercor, a San Francisco–based company connecting elite creative and technical talent with AI research labs, is seeking a Design Expert for a remote contract role. You will own and evolve design systems and AI-assisted development workflows, collaborating across product, design, and engineering to ship production-ready interfaces and rubrics that demonstrate senior-level product judgment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years as a product designer or AI-native engineer, a strong portfolio, and fluency

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a product designer or AI-native engineer in a 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

Product design

Design systems

AI-native engineering

Rapid prototyping

User-centered design

Tools

Figma

Framer

Vibecoding

Cursor

Claude Code

Replit

Job description

Mercor, a San Francisco–based company connecting elite creative and technical talent with AI research labs, is seeking a Design Expert for a remote contract role. You will own and evolve design systems and AI-assisted development workflows, collaborating across product, design, and engineering to ship production-ready interfaces and rubrics that demonstrate senior-level product judgment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years as a product designer or AI-native engineer, a strong portfolio, and fluency