[Hiring] Principal Product Designer @Mercor

Role Description

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: Product & UX Design Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $85–$115/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build long-horizon product design tasks with deterministic rubrics for agent performance evaluation.
• Create scenarios covering flow completeness, design system fidelity, and spec handoff.
• Develop user flows including states like empty, loading, error, permissions, and success.
• Ensure design components and tokens are reused from a defined system.
• Annotate specs with accessibility notes and measurable copy constraints.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve task quality.

Qualifications

• Must-Have: 3+ years as a product or UX designer at a SaaS or consumer product company.
• Portfolio with shipped flows.
• Expertise in Figma, design-system development, WCAG, accessibility, prototyping, spec annotation, and handoff.
• Comfortable with product design artifacts: flows, mocks, specs, design system audits.
• Clear written communication to articulate reasoning and encode it into deterministic rubrics.

Requirements

• Hourly contractor.
• Strong contributors promoted based on task quality and throughput.

Application Process

• Upload resume.
• AI interview based on your resume.
• Submit form.

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
• Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.