Lead Brand Designer
- Salary
- $200K - $300K
- Level
- Lead
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 9 September 2026.
About the role
About Mercor
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
What you’ll do
- Own the evolution of Mercor’s brand identity across every external and internal touchpoint, from campaigns and launches to web, social, and events
- Translate complex ideas about AI, talent, and work into clear, compelling visual systems
- Create polished, high-impact brand assets, including landing pages, decks, social graphics, ads, illustrations, event collateral, and product marketing visuals
- Develop and maintain a distinctive, modern visual language
- Partner closely with marketing, product, recruiting, and leadership to bring Mercor’s story to life across channels
- Help build a scalable brand system, templates, and guidelines that make the company look consistently excellent as we grow
- Bring strong taste, speed, and originality to a fast-moving team with a high creative bar
Qualifications
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, brand systems, typography, layout, and storytelling
- Passion for building brands that feel distinctive, polished, and culturally relevant
- 4+ years in brand, visual, or graphic design, ideally at fast-moving startups, agencies, or high-bar creative teams
- Experience designing across web, social, campaigns, decks, and marketing surfaces
- Proven ability to operate autonomously, take ambiguous ideas, and turn them into excellent creative work
- Strong taste, attention to detail, and ability to move quickly without sacrificing quality
- Bonus: Experience designing for AI, marketplaces, recruiting, fintech, or other complex technical products
At Mercor, we recognize that exceptional ability comes in all forms, a core philosophy on which we built our platform. Because of this, we welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds with unique experiences and transferable skill sets, even if they don’t meet all the preferred qualifications listed above.
Benefits
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 22 open in Engineering. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
LLM (6 of 22), Python (5 of 22), SQL (4 of 22), CI/CD (3 of 22), REST (3 of 22), Terraform (3 of 22), Golang (2 of 22)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Member of Design Staff posted Oct 14
- Tech Lead, Systems & Platform Applied AI posted Sep 24
- Software Engineer, Systems & Platform Applied AI posted Sep 24
- Delivery Engineer, Frontier Data Products posted Sep 15
- Data Platform Engineer posted Sep 10
- Tech Lead Manager, Frontier Data Products posted Sep 8
- Infrastructure Software Engineer posted Sep 5
- Senior Product Manager, Payments posted Aug 25
- Payments Engineer posted Aug 19
- Product Manager, APEX posted Aug 19
- Software Engineer, Search Systems - Code Data posted Aug 14
- Fullstack Software Engineer, Agent Platform posted Aug 11
- Product Manager, Trust & Safety posted Aug 11
- Technical Recruiter posted Aug 3
- Product Manager, Mobile posted Jul 25
- Product Manager, Applied AI posted Jul 25
- Member of Technical Staff, iOS posted Jul 17
- Product Manager posted Jun 29
- Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance posted Jun 19
- Engineering Manager, Applied AI posted Jun 19
- Data Scientist posted Aug 30
From the team and dates on Mercor's own job board.
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