About the Role
Sound Ventures is seeking its first Designer to tackle diverse creative challenges across brand, portfolio support, and incubation. This role involves working on presentations, videos, websites, visual identities, and marketing assets, requiring seamless transitions between strategic thinking and hands-on execution within a lean, collaborative team.
Responsibilities
- Design presentations, pitch decks, one-pagers, and other high-quality marketing materials.
- Create visual assets across digital, social, web, email, and events.
- Maintain and update the Sound Ventures website.
- Edit videos for launches, events, social media, and marketing campaigns.
- Assist with podcast editing and production (nice to have).
- Partner with the incubation team to develop visual identities, websites, marketing assets, and creative systems for new companies.
- Support portfolio companies with design needs ranging from presentations and branding to product launches and marketing collateral.
- Collaborate with external agencies, freelancers, and creative partners when needed.
- Continuously improve our design systems, templates, and creative workflows.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of creative experience.
- Strong visual design skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent presentation and editorial design skills.
- Experience designing for digital, web, and social.
- Comfortable editing video; podcast production is a plus.
- Experience with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Curious, resourceful, and excited by technology, with AI as part of your creative workflow.
- Open to being based in LA, with some travel.
Skills
- Visual design
- Presentation design
- Editorial design
- Digital design
- Web design
- Social media design
- Video editing
- Podcast production
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AI in creative workflow
Location
- LA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Travel
Experience Level
- 5-8 years
Benefits
- Design for one of the leading AI venture firms in the world.
- Work alongside founders building category-defining companies.
- Help shape brands from day one through incubation and early growth.
- Join a lean, collaborative team where you'll have meaningful ownership from day one.
About the Company
- At Sound, we believe inspiration beats convention, and that the best founders aren’t just solving problems; they’re rewriting the rules.
- For the last 15 years, we've invested thematically in category-defining companies at the forefront of major technology platform shifts. We seek out founders with relentless ambition and bold ideas, backing them before the rest of the world sees what's coming.
- Our portfolio includes early investments in Affirm, Airbnb, Airtable, Anthropic, Duolingo, EquipmentShare, GitLab, OpenAI, SentinelOne, and Uber, among others.
- Sound Ventures is led by General Partners Effie Epstein and Guy Oseary and manages $2B+ across a series of funds.
