UX/UI Product Designer at Mercor

UX/UI Product Designer | $150–200/hr | Remote (UK-Based)

Mercor is recruiting experienced UK-based UX/UI Product Designers with technical web engineering knowledge for a research project with a leading frontier AI lab. This is a contract opportunity for designers who specialize in end-to-end digital product design — not brand identity or marketing-only work.

About the Role

You will help create, review, and evaluate high-quality UX/UI product scenarios, drawing on your expertise in product design, web interfaces, user flows, and design-to-engineering collaboration. Strong candidates will have hands-on experience designing functional web products such as e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, customer portals, booking flows, onboarding journeys, checkout experiences, or internal operations dashboards.

Key Areas of Experience

• UX/UI design for complex web products
• E-commerce, marketplace, checkout, booking, or onboarding flows
• Logged-in customer portals and self-serve platforms
• Internal tools, admin panels, or operations dashboards
• Product design systems and component-based design
• Design-to-engineering handoff and implementation collaboration
• Working alongside product managers, engineers, and analytics teams
• Understanding front-end constraints, responsive design, and web implementation tradeoffs

Preferred Background

Candidates with experience at digital product studios are strongly preferred, including:

• Publicis Sapient
• Red Badger
• Valtech
• Kin + Carta
• ustwo
• EPAM Continuum (Experience Design / Product Design roles)
• Or a comparable leading digital product or UX/UI engineering studio

Vetting Process

• Resume and portfolio review
• Short interview evaluating UX/UI product design and web product expertise

Please note: Candidates must be based in the United Kingdom and hold the right to work in the United Kingdom. These are essential requirements for this role.

Mercor considers all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provides reasonable accommodations upon request.