Remote Design Systems Lead for AI-Driven Vibecoding

mercor

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

CAD 137,000 - 157,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Mercor is hiring a Design Expert for a remote contract role, focusing on rapid prototyping, design systems, and AI-enabled workflows. You will lead cross-functional design-engineering collaboration and drive production-ready design systems for AI-enabled products.

The role requires 5+ years in product design, ownership of design systems, and fluency in vibecoding or related tools. Portfolio or prior rubric-authored work is a plus, with a strong emphasis on user-centered design and rapid

Qualifications

5+ years as product designer or AI-native engineer at a product-forward company.
Direct ownership of product design systems or AI-assisted development workflows shipped to production.
Fluency in vibecoding or design tooling with user-centered design principles and rapid prototyping.

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).