Visual Design Apprentice

About the Role

The Visual Design Apprentice will be responsible for designing the visual identity systems, product interfaces, and brand assets for new ventures. The role emphasizes a strong visual aesthetic that is impactful and memorable.

What Liminal Is

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

Key Responsibilities

• Visual identity and brand systems: Translate brand strategy into complete visual identities, including typography, color, layout grids, and iconography.
• Product and digital surfaces: Design visually engaging UI for early-stage products such as landing pages, dashboards, onboarding flows, and marketing pages. Work directly with engineering to ensure high-fidelity output.
• Brand assets at scale: Create flawless decks, social content, one-pagers, investor materials, and event collateral.
• Design system stewardship: Build and maintain coherent design languages.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Exceptional visual craft: Demonstrated through a portfolio with a strong command of typography, color theory, composition, and layout.
• Exquisite taste: Informed by a broad range of influences across design, art, architecture, fashion, and culture.
• Tool fluency: Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Comfort with ambiguity: Ability to work from a blank page with a clear vision for a company's visual identity.
• Contrarian streak: Independent thinking and ability to engage in open debate.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship: This is a twelve-month apprenticeship program with a meaningful stipend.
• The role is focused on aesthetic sense and visual craft.

Unicorn Points (Bonus):

• Real UX instincts, including information architecture, user flows, wireframing, and usability audits.