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Project scope: advance and finalize the brandbook, build social templates, create marketing materials for conferences, add slides to the master deck and create a new creative brochure.\nPath to in-house: Depending on fit and business needs, Subsense may offer a full-time, in-house (W-2) Brand Designer position after the project.\n The Opportunity\nSubsense is building an AI-native NanoBCI: a non-surgical brain-computer interface that uses nanoparticles instead of implants. We are a team of about 40 scientists and engineers across two Bay Area labs, starting with medical applications such as Parkinson's and ALS. Our brand has to feel human, calm and clinically credible while explaining deep science and vision to investors, clinicians, press and future patients.\nYou will be the in-house hand behind every Subsense visual. We have brand guidelines (palette, Sora and Inter type system, gradients, chart style, logo rules). Your job is to advance them, turn them into a working system and then use that system every week, fast and consistently.\nThe work moves between two modes, and you should feel native in both. One day it is structured, clear and readable pitch deck slides that help investors follow complex science. The next it is creative, catchy and sometimes bold marketing materials that stop people at a conference or in a feed. Switching between them easily is the job.\nToday this work is spread across several agencies and freelancers. We are bringing all of it in-house with one designer who knows the brand deeply, keeps clean source files and can turn a request around in a day when an investor meeting is tomorrow.\nWhat You'll Own\n Brand system: build and maintain our Figma library (templates, components, icons, chart styles) so every file starts on brand\nPitch decks and investor materials: maintain the master pitch deck, make fast slide edits for fundraising, build one-pagers and data room documents\nPresentations: keynote and conference slides for our CEO and scientists, templates the whole team can use\nSocial media: monthly static posts, carousels, infographics and simple motion for LinkedIn and X, built on reusable templates\nEvent and conference materials: roll-up banners, booth graphics, sponsor assets, signage, badges, printed programs, ready for print vendors\nOut of home and campaigns: billboard and digital ad creative, from concept to print-ready files\nMerch: artwork and tech packs for caps, T-shirts and gifts\n File hygiene: every deliverable ships with an editable native file in our shared drive, named and versioned\nWhat You Bring\nHave a portfolio that shows brand systems, not just one-off pieces, ideally including decks and print\nAre fluent in Figma and Canva, and comfortable in Google Slides\nUse AI image and video tools as part of your workflow and know where they help and where they hurt quality\nCan take a messy request (\"make slide 8 clearer, tomorrow\") and ask the two right questions before you start\nCare about typography, spacing and restraint\nAre curious about neuroscience, biotech or deep tech\nAre reachable during California business hours (Pacific Time) and can turn quick adjustments around the same day\nNice to have\nExperience with scientific or medical visuals\nPackaging, merch or environmental design\nHow to Apply & What to Expect\nSubmit your portfolio, weekly availability, and responses to four application questions, including why you’re interested in Subsense. 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