Brand Designer

Subsense•Palo Alto, CA

32d•$28 - $38•Hybrid

About The Position

Subsense is a deep-tech company developing the world’s first non-surgical, bidirectional brain-computer interface powered by plasmonic and magnetoelectric nanoparticles. Our mission is to unlock direct communication between the human brain and AI - starting with medical applications such as stroke recovery and moving toward cognitive enhancement for healthy users. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Subsense brings together leading scientists and engineers to redefine the future of human–machine interaction. Subsense 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. You 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. The 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. Today 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.

Requirements

Portfolio that shows brand systems, not just one-off pieces, ideally including decks and print
Fluent in Figma and Canva, and comfortable in Google Slides
Use AI image and video tools as part of your workflow and know where they help and where they hurt quality
Ability to take a messy request and ask the two right questions before you start
Care about typography, spacing and restraint
Curious about neuroscience, biotech or deep tech
Reachable during California business hours (Pacific Time) and can turn quick adjustments around the same day

Nice To Haves

Experience with scientific or medical visuals
Packaging, merch or environmental design

Responsibilities

Build and maintain our Figma library (templates, components, icons, chart styles) so every file starts on brand
Maintain the master pitch deck, make fast slide edits for fundraising, build one-pagers and data room documents
Create keynote and conference slides for our CEO and scientists, and templates the whole team can use
Create monthly static posts, carousels, infographics and simple motion for LinkedIn and X, built on reusable templates
Create roll-up banners, booth graphics, sponsor assets, signage, badges, printed programs, ready for print vendors
Create billboard and digital ad creative, from concept to print-ready files
Create artwork and tech packs for caps, T-shirts and gifts
Ensure every deliverable ships with an editable native file in our shared drive, named and versioned