Visual Design Expert (Excel)

Remote · Flexible Hours · Mid-Senior Level

🌍 Remote Flexible Hours Mid-Senior Design & Frontend
About This Role
Mercor is recruiting Expert Visual designers to create high-quality, professional Excel templates for business settings.

This project involves using your professional design experience to create high-quality, visually polished, and “sellable” spreadsheet templates for business users. These are not UX or product design tasks — the focus is strictly on strong visual and aesthetic spreadsheet design.

We're specifically seeking individuals with strong experience creating polished, thoughtfully designed spreadsheet templates for budgeting, calendars, tracking systems, and other productivity use cases.

Selected experts will design planners, dashboards, trackers, budgets, invoices, project management sheets, and similar professional-grade templates intended for real-world business / productivity use.

Applicants must:

  • Have 3–5+ years of full-time professional experience
  • Hold a college degree or higher
  • Demonstrate strong visual/aesthetic design skills (not content writing, UX, or product design)
  • Have experience using Microsoft Excel in professional environments
  • Be able to commit a minimum of 15 hours per week
  • Have access to a desktop or laptop computer (Chromebooks are not supported)

Preference will be given to candidates with a core design background, rather than primarily product/UX-focused profiles, unless they can clearly demonstrate exceptional visual spreadsheet design capability.

Interview Prep Guide

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Many top hiring platforms use AI-powered screening as the first step. Here's how to stand out when applying for a Visual Design Expert (Excel) role:

Design Rationale: Walk through your design process — from research to final output. Evaluators want to see how you make decisions, not just the end result.

Technical Proficiency: Be ready to demonstrate mastery of your tools (Figma, Blender, CSS, etc.) through practical examples or a portfolio walkthrough.

User-Centered Thinking: Show how you balance aesthetic quality with usability, accessibility, and performance constraints.

Practice Behavioral Question

"Walk me through a project where you had to learn a new domain quickly. How did you ramp up, and what would you do differently?"