Set and Production Design Expert

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 76,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is a remote data lab that designs and evaluates production sets for film, TV, theatre, events and photography. The role focuses on set and production design review, ensuring designs fit story, space and camera needs.

You’ll assess briefs, budgets and scripts, explain design decisions in writing, and collaborate with other departments to ensure production integrity. Prior experience in production design is required.

Qualifications

• Professional work designing, building or decorating sets for film, TV, theatre, events, commercials or photography.
• Experience with real productions: scripts or briefs, budgets, builds, shoot or install days and working with other departments.
• Clear written English and ability to explain design decisions in writing.

Responsibilities

• Review set designs and briefs, judge fit with story, space and camera, and explain decisions in writing.
• Look at set designs, room setups or production concepts and judge which is stronger for a given script, brief or budget.
• Write short explanations for each decision so reviewers can follow the reasoning.

Skills

SketchUp

AutoCAD

Vectorworks

Rhino

Photoshop

Set design

Briefs

Tools

SketchUp

AutoCAD

Vectorworks

Rhino

Photoshop

Job description

Pay: $50 - $105/hour

Required Skills

• SketchUp
• AutoCAD
• Vectorworks
• Scripts
• Briefs
• Set designer

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Set and Production Design Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $55 to $100 per hour

Location: Fully remote, worldwide

You’ll need: Professional experience designing, building or decorating sets for film, TV, theatre, events, commercials or photography

Your tasks: Review set designs and briefs, judge how well they fit the story, the space and the camera, and explain your decisions in writing

You’ll review set and production design work and judge it: what works, what doesn’t, and why. This is a good fit if you work as a production designer, set designer, art director or set decorator and make decisions about how a space looks and works for film, TV, theatre, events or photography. You need professional experience designing or building sets for real productions, and clear written English.

Scope of Work

• Look at set designs, room setups or production concepts and judge which one is stronger for a given script, brief or budget.
• Check scale, layout, sightlines, color, materials and how the space would work for actors and camera.
• Flag problems that would show up on the day (a set that does not fit the shot, a material that looks fake on camera, items wrong for the period).
• Check that a design fits the story, the setting and the budget.
• Write a short explanation for each decision so a reviewer can follow your reasoning.

What we’re looking for

• Professional work as a production designer, set designer, art director, set decorator, assistant art director or theatre designer.
• Experience with real productions: scripts or briefs, budgets, builds, shoot or install days and working with other departments.
• Comfort with design tools such as SketchUp, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Rhino or Photoshop, or strong hand drafting. Not all are required.
• Comfort explaining why one design works and another doesn’t.
• Clear written English.

How the selection process works

with your resume and a short profile.
Complete the curation interview.
It is a short conversation about your experience with exhibitions, collections and attribution. You don’t need to prepare, look at anything or write anything. Finishing it is what moves your application forward.
Review.
We check your experience against what the project needs.
Onboarding and first task.
If selected, you get the guidelines and start with an initial task, which is reviewed before you continue.
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