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Visual / Brand Designer

Mercor mercor.com Open · verified Aug 4, 2026
On-site San Francisco Full-time Mid-level Brand Marketing

Mid-level Brand Marketing role at Mercor. San Francisco · full-time · $150,000–$300,000 base.

SalaryStated by Mercor
$150,000 – $300,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from MercorOur estimate for the market: $174,625–$215,000
Above the market median of $197,500 for mid-level brand marketing roles in San Francisco.
Worked out from 14 postings that stated pay, median $197,500. Last updated Aug 5, 2026.
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • You’ll shape Mercor’s visual identity across campaigns, launches, web, social, events, and internal work
  • You’ll turn complex AI, talent, and work concepts into clear visual systems
  • You’ll create landing pages, decks, ads, illustrations, event pieces, and product marketing assets
  • You’ll work with marketing, product, recruiting, and leadership to carry the company story across channels
  • You’ll build templates, guidelines, and a scalable brand system for consistent growth

What you bring

  • Your portfolio demonstrates strong visual design, brand systems, typography, layout, and storytelling
  • You have at least four years of brand, visual, or graphic design experience
  • You’ve designed for web, social, campaigns, presentations, and other marketing surfaces
  • You can work independently, shape unclear ideas, and produce excellent creative work quickly

Who this fits

You’ll thrive if you bring strong visual judgment, originality, speed, and care for detail to a fast-moving team with demanding creative standards. You’ll work closely with marketing, product, recruiting, and leadership. The role is in person five days each week, with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London; the listed location is San Francisco.

From the employer

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

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure

  • 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