Design Critic

Design Critic at Mercor

We are seeking experienced Design Critics to help evaluate, critique, and shape how AI systems interpret and analyze visual design across mediums. This role is ideal for individuals with backgrounds in visual arts, art history, design criticism, visual journalism, or theory-forward design practice who are excited about interrogating aesthetics, composition, and visual reasoning.

Who You Are:

• 1+ years of professional experience in a visual, critique-based, or design-adjacent field (including design marketing or journalism).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Art History, Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Design Theory, Architecture, Visual Culture Studies, Film & Media Studies, Illustration, Editorial Design, or Journalism (with a visual or arts focus).
• Exposure working with LLMs, GenAI prompting, and vibe coding.
• Experience writing or speaking critically about visual work (e.g., reviews, essays, critiques, studio feedback, editorial analysis, academic writing, design commentary).
• Currently based in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Europe, Australia, or Brazil.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to details.

Role Details:

This role will begin in early March with applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• This project is 10-20 hours of work per week with potential for increased hours based on performance.
• You will work asynchronously with a team of designers across disciplines.
• You will craft, critique, and review experimental design workflows with frontier AI models.

Interview Process:

• You will complete a short AI interview about your creative process.
• Following the interview will be a short portfolio review and written form.

Key skills/competency:

• Design Criticism
• Visual Arts
• Art History
• AI Systems
• Visual Design
• Aesthetics
• Composition
• Visual Reasoning
• LLMs
• GenAI Prompting