Visual Design Apprentice

About the Role

You make things beautiful. Not “clean and modern” beautiful. Stop-scrolling, zoom-in, who-made-this beautiful. You'll design the visual identity systems, product interfaces, and brand assets for ventures that don't exist yet.

Liminal is a Founders' Studio that co-builds with repeat founders, providing build expertise, capital, and unfair access from founding to Series B.

This role focuses on the visual layer for a venture: identity, interfaces, decks, assets. You will turn positioning into something a founder looks at and says "that's us."

The Work

• Visual identity and brand systems: Translate brand strategy into complete visual identities: typography, color, layout grids, iconography, the overall look and feel that makes a venture cohesive across every touchpoint.
• Product and digital surfaces: Design clean, visually engaging UI for early-stage products: landing pages, dashboards, onboarding flows, marketing pages. You own the high-fidelity output and work directly with engineering.
• Brand assets at scale: Decks, social content, one-pagers, investor materials, event collateral.
• Design system stewardship: Build and maintain coherent design languages that hold up as the venture grows.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Exceptional visual craft: A portfolio that makes us lean in. Strong command of typography, color theory, composition, and layout across brand and digital surfaces.
• Exquisite taste: Opinionated taste informed by design, art, architecture, fashion, and culture.
• Tool fluency: Figma and Adobe Creative Suite are second nature.
• Comfort with ambiguity: Ability to work without existing brand guides or design systems.
• Contrarian streak: Independent thinker, unafraid of unpopular positions.

Apprenticeship Details

• Duration: Twelve months.
• Compensation: Meaningful stipend.
• Experience: Embedded in core projects alongside experienced builders.

Unicorn Points (Bonus, not the job): Real UX instincts: information architecture, user flows, wireframing, usability audits.