Advertising Art Director - Fully Remote | Up to $120/hr
Mercor connects talented professionals with high-paying remote contract opportunities at leading AI companies.
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About the job
Role Responsibilities
- Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in brand identity, advertising, and graphic design.
- Design challenging, real-world design tasks from agency workflows, such as identity systems, packaging, and multi-format campaign suites.
- Evaluate AI-generated design work and provide clear feedback on typography, grids, hierarchy, color, and print feasibility.
- Develop guidelines, rubrics, and quality checks for graphic design, including technical checks on vector and print-ready files.
- Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 5+ years of commercial brand and advertising design work as an art director or senior designer.
- Hands-on daily fluency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, and InDesign.
- Delivered brand identity systems and print production on real packaging dielines.
- Experience with out-of-home and multi-format campaign suites.
- Strong typography and grid craft, confident vector illustration, and image retouching.
- Fluency with editable source files and exchange formats: .ai, .psd, .fig, .indd, .svg, PDF/X.
- Hands-on generative AI practice in design work, such as Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion.
- A public portfolio or reel of shipped work.
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
- Strong written communication skills.
Application process
Submit your application through NorthStar. Employer screening may follow after submission.
Resources & Support
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About Mercor
Mercor runs a remote talent marketplace that places experienced specialists on contract assignments, often for AI and other technology employers. Openings cover many professional fields, including engineering, research, design, finance, tax, and legal work, and are commonly paid hourly with flexible or part-time schedules. The usual path is a single application and screening flow, after which candidates can be matched to projects that fit their expertise.