Brand and Creative Design Intern

QuilrAI

17h

About The Position

QuilrAI is hiring a Brand & Creative Design Intern to help establish the company’s visual direction and voice across campaigns, launches, events, and other brand work. The intern will work directly with the CMO and have ownership of ideas from the first week, contributing original concepts as well as execution across brand, web, social, campaign, and event design. The role calls for exceptional visual judgment and professional-level design craft across digital, print, and motion. The intern will create a portfolio-worthy body of work during a paid, three-month internship, with a stated path and commitment to convert to a full-time role for the right candidate. The position is remote or in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Requirements

Exceptional visual judgment, including typographic precision, compositional control, restraint, and a distinct visual voice; ability to explain why one design solution is stronger than another.
Figma proficiency, including components, variants, auto layout, and prototyping.
High proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects or Premiere.
Ability to work across static design, motion, web, and large-format print, including preparing print-ready files for vendors.
Ability to originate creative ideas, make a case for concepts, present and defend work confidently, take direction, and push back with conviction when appropriate.
Range across social design, keynote stage backdrops, short motion pieces, landing pages, and vehicle wraps, with an understanding of how ideas adapt across formats.
Ability to deliver production-ready work on real deadlines while managing multiple projects and maintaining attention to detail.
Genuine interest in making complex, technical ideas clear, human, and compelling; prior security or AI background is not required.
Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in graphic design, communication design, interaction design, motion design, or a related field, or equivalent self-taught experience demonstrated by a portfolio.
A portfolio demonstrating the candidate’s design craft and experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience using generative tools such as Midjourney, Runway, or Firefly in a real workflow.
Front-end familiarity, such as HTML/CSS, Webflow, or Framer.

Responsibilities

Design on-brand work across website pages and modules, social systems, sales and pitch decks, one-pagers, email, swag, and launch collateral.
Design experiential and event creative, including booth and stage environments, vehicle wraps, large-format print and billboards, signage, dimensional swag, and installations; work with vendors and printers on specifications and production.
Develop and pitch campaign ideas, visual treatments, and storytelling approaches, then create comps to present concepts internally.
Create original visual work, including illustration, iconography, data visualization, motion, micro-animation, and reusable company templates.
Translate abstract product concepts such as agent governance, observability, and enforcement into clear visuals.
Produce finished, production-ready files quickly and manage details including typography, spacing, color, export specifications, responsive behavior, and print tolerances.
Build and maintain a visual library of Figma components, templates, and asset packs.
Bring outside references and design perspectives each week, drawing from design, motion, fashion, editorial, and technology.
Present and defend creative work and concepts confidently to the CMO and CEO.
Manage multiple projects and deadlines, ask focused questions, and deliver finished work.