[Hiring] Product/UX Professionals @Prolific Academic

Role Description

We’re looking for Product Designers and UX Specialists to join our Expert Network to help train and evaluate cutting-edge AI models using real design expertise. If you have the necessary experience, we’ll send you a quick 10- to 15-minute test to assess your skills and suitability for AI tasks. If successful, you’ll be invited to join Prolific as a participant, where you’ll get paid to train and evaluate powerful AI models.

• Researchers looking for your skills tend to pay up to $50 per hour.
• You must be prepared to complete paid tasks that require one hour of uninterrupted work, though many are shorter.

Qualifications

• A BS, MS, or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), UX Design, Product Design, or a related field.
• At least one year of experience designing digital products, conducting user research, or building design systems in a professional environment.
• A deep understanding of usability heuristics, accessibility standards (WCAG), and user-centered design principles.
• The ability to provide high-quality feedback on UI layouts, user flows, and information architecture.
• Experience balancing user needs with business goals and technical constraints.
• Proficiency in explaining the "why" behind design decisions and critiquing AI-generated designs for functional and aesthetic quality.
• A Paypal account to receive payment from our clients.

Requirements

• Evaluate LLM-Generated Designs: assess AI-generated wireframes, user flows, and product requirements for usability and logical consistency.
• Audit Accessibility & Inclusion: review model outputs to ensure they adhere to modern accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
• Fact-Check UX Principles: validate that model suggestions align with established design patterns and psychological principles (e.g., Fitts's Law, Gestalt principles).
• Annotate Design Logic: identify gaps in user journeys, redundant steps in a flow, or poor visual hierarchy in AI-proposed interfaces.
• Refine Product Requirements: evaluate AI-generated PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) for clarity, feasibility, and user value.

Key Technologies

• Design Tools: advanced knowledge of Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or Sketch.
• Prototyping: experience with high-fidelity prototyping tools (Protopie, Framer) and handoff processes.
• User Research: familiarity with tools like Maze, UserTesting, or Hotjar to validate design hypotheses.
• Product Management: proficiency with Jira, Linear, or Notion for documenting product lifecycles and specs.

Benefits

• Chance to influence the AI models of the future using your professional expertise.
• Competitive pay rates.
• Flexible hours.
• Ability to work from home.

Company Description

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are building the biggest pool of quality human data in the world. Over 35,000 AI developers, researchers, and organizations use Prolific to gather data from paid study participants with a wide variety of experiences, knowledge, and skills.