Mercor · Finance & specialist
Creative & Media Expert - review AI outputs in your specialty
Listed on Mercor as “Creative & Media Expert”
How this rate compares
This listing
$80–$90 per hour
Typical in Finance & specialist
$60–$100 per hour
Within the typical range
Typical: the middle of the lowest and highest rates posted by 336 listings in this category on Seoulstart, in US dollars.
What this actually is
You bring your specialist expertise to AI evaluation. The shape of the work varies but the pattern is the same: review outputs, rate quality, write prompts, flag errors. The platform title (Creative & Media Expert) reflects the rate band and the expertise required, not the day-to-day work.
How Mercor picks people
- Upload your CV and answer the role's written questions.
- Do a video interview with Mercor's AI interviewer. Most take about 20 minutes, in English unless the role says otherwise.
- Some roles add a skills test. A test you pass once counts for similar roles.
- The project team reviews your results and sends offers to the people it picks.
Before you start
- Take Mercor's free practice interview first. It does not count toward any application.
- Use Chrome on a computer with a camera and microphone, in a quiet room.
- You can retake an official interview up to 3 times, but hiring teams see how many times you retook it.
Not every applicant gets an offer. Prepare well for the interview.
How to prepare for the Mercor interview
Source: Mercor's help pages. talent.docs.mercor.com
Can you do this on your visa?
F-2 / F-4 / F-5 / F-6: open. E-1 to E-7: needs concurrent-employment permit. D-2 / D-4 students: S-3 permit, 20 hr/week cap. D-10 / D-8: case by case.
Korean tax on USD income
First 5 years in Korea: foreign-source income only taxed if remitted into Korea. After year 5: worldwide income. Full tax guide.
Original posting from Mercor
Role Overview
- Mercor is seeking experienced creative, media, and communications professionals to build evaluation tasks for AI systems that produce professional creative work.
- The tasks are calibrated to the quality a senior professional would deliver to a client, an employer, or a live audience.
- This role spans five areas: enterprise communication (slide decks, reports, training videos), entertainment and media (video, audio, podcasts, game assets), marketing and advertising (campaigns, social content, brand guides), staging and layouts (posters, logos, concept art), and interactive digital products (websites, HTML games). Professionals in any of these areas are encouraged to apply.
- Contributors write realistic creative briefs, prepare input files, produce reference deliverables, and judge AI-generated outputs against them.
Key Responsibilities
- Write realistic creative briefs based on your own professional practice, with a clear audience, constraints, and a single end deliverable.
- Prepare the input files a professional would receive, such as brand assets, data, footage, audio, and style references.
- Produce a finished reference deliverable for each task, at the standard you would ship to a client.
- Compare AI-generated deliverables with reference deliverables and judge which is stronger on content and on craft.
- Write concise rationales for each judgment and help refine the guidance used to grade AI outputs.
Ideal Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in design, art direction, photography, film and video production, animation, sound and music, broadcasting, advertising, marketing, public relations, publishing, instructional design, or business communication.
- A portfolio of your own professional work that shows strong content and craft.
- Fluency in the professional tools of your field, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, PowerPoint or Google Slides, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Pro Tools, or Logic Pro.
- A sharp eye for detail and the ability to explain clearly why one piece of work is better than another.
- Prior rubric writing, AI evaluation, or creative review experience is a plus.
Quoted from Mercor's public listing on 2026-11-13. We don't edit platform copy; honest framing is in the title and the “what this actually is” block above.
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