UX/UI Design Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $80/hr

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

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: Design Expert Type: Contract Compensation: $70–$80/hour Location: Remote

Role 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years working 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.

Preferred

• A portfolio of shipped work is strongly preferred.
• Prior rubric, training, or design critique authorship is a plus.

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