
Design & Creative Professionals
Listing checked November 9, 2026 · pay as published by SME Careers
Key details
- Pay
- Up to $150/hr
- Location
- RemoteIndia, United States
- Job type
- contract
- Posted
- November 9, 2026
Overview
This is an hourly remote contractor role for Design & Creative Professionals at SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company. You will craft realistic, task-based creative assignments that mirror professional workflows across graphic design, digital media, UI/UX, and branding using tools like Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Figma, and Canva. Your work includes preparing the work environment, recording screen demonstrations, and documenting task objectives and outputs in SuperAnnotate to help AI reviewers understand real-world processes. The role supports AI training data efforts by translating expert design practice into concrete tasks and deliverables for model training.
What You'll Do8
- Create realistic design tasks that reflect real-world workflows and document them clearly in SuperAnnotate.
- Prepare the software environment by ensuring required applications, fonts, images, templates, and assets are ready before recording.
- Record yourself executing design tasks on your computer, highlighting key steps and decision points.
- Demonstrate workflows across layout design, illustration, image editing, typography, vector graphics, UI design, prototyping, branding, and asset production using industry tools.
- Document task context with objectives, inputs, design specs, references, and expected deliverables for reviewers.
- Apply professional design principles including alignment, spacing, typography, color theory, and visual hierarchy.
- Review finished assets to confirm they meet the specified design requirements.
- Maintain high-quality screen recordings and submission materials that align with project guidelines.
Requirements9
- 5+ years of professional experience in graphic design, digital design, creative production, animation, video editing, user interface design, illustration, industrial design, architectural design, or related creative work.
- Professional background in one or more of the following fields: Special Effects Artists and Animators; Film and Video Editors; Commercial and Industrial Designers; Architects; Web and Digital Interface Designers; Video Game Designers; Graphic Designers.
- Hands-on proficiency in at least one of these applications: Adobe InDesign; Adobe Illustrator; Adobe Photoshop; Canva; Adobe XD; Figma; other Adobe Creative Cloud software.
- Strong understanding of design workflows including layout composition, typography, color theory, visual hierarchy, image editing, vector graphics, branding, prototyping, asset preparation, and export specifications.
- Ability to create realistic design tasks reflecting actual professional workflows in graphic design, digital media, advertising, product design, interface design, publishing, or creative production.
- Comfortable managing the software environment, project files, and design assets prior to recording.
- A shareable professional portfolio demonstrating relevant design work across layouts, UI/UX, branding, and visual assets.
- Reliable, self-directed, and comfortable working in an hourly, remote contractor environment across time zones.
- English proficiency is not mandatory; applicants from all language backgrounds are welcome provided they can understand project instructions.
Preferred Qualifications4
- Portfolio demonstrating design layouts and UI/UX projects
- Experience creating screen recordings or design tutorials
- Prior work on AI data training tasks or design annotation projects
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a remote, hourly contractor setting across time zones
Who Should Apply
Design professionals with a strong portfolio and 5+ years of relevant experience, proficient in at least one major design tool, and able to document and share workflows clearly. Applicants who can operate remotely across time zones and understand project instructions will fit well.
Salary Insight
$150/hr. This is an hourly remote contractor role; compensation is typically aligned with experience and deliverables.
Pay and demand for Design & Creative roles
Market estimates from live NearSkill listings — separate from this job's published terms.
This role · as published
Up to $150/hr
Taken from the listing itself.
Typical pay · estimated
$70/hour
Median of 1,318 similar roles that publish pay · 303 publish only a top rate; those count at the rate they gave
Most Design & Creative roles pay $40–$95 per hour. This role's pay sits above that range.
Rates shown per hour. Yearly and monthly pay converted; one-time fees and non-USD pay are not included.
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