Brand Designer
Role Overview
This is a junior-level Brand Designer role where you'll create clean, thoughtful design assets across marketing, web, and internal initiatives using tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud. You'll work closely with senior designers and cross-functional partners to translate complex ideas into approachable visuals while maintaining brand consistency and contributing to a scalable design system. The role involves handling production tasks, organizing files, and collaborating in a remote-first environment to support brand expression across various channels.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote, full-time role with availability expected during standard working hours, offering flexibility in a distributed team across multiple time zones. The company, backed by notable investors, provides a collaborative environment with opportunities for career growth by working within and evolving a refined design system. Benefits likely include typical tech job perks such as health insurance and professional development support, fostering a culture of curiosity and proactive communication.
Full Job Description
About Tailscale Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.Job Description We’re looking for a Brand Designer to join the Brand Design team and help bring the Tailscale brand to life across marketing, web, and internal initiatives. This is a full-time role with availability during standard working hours. As a key contributor on a small but high-performing team, you’ll work closely with senior designers, marketers, and cross-functional partners to create clean, thoughtful, and technically sound design assets. You’ll translate complex ideas into approachable visuals while maintaining consistency and craftsmanship across everything you touch. This role is ideal for someone early in their career who is excited to work within a refined design system while helping it grow, evolve, and scale. Key Responsibilities Support brand expression across channels
Design and iterate in Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign (After Effects a plus) maintaining clean files, components, and layers. Create high-quality assets for web, social, presentations, campaigns, and events while staying true to brand guidelines. Handle production tasks: prepping print files, exporting web assets, and managing organized libraries. Adapt and extend designs across multiple formats to ensure clarity, consistency, and accessibility. Contribute to a scalable design system by keeping components, templates, and layouts organized. Help create diagrams and technical visualizations that simplify complex ideas into intuitive graphics.
Collaborate in a remote-first environment
Share progress openly with a distributed team across multiple time zones. Ask questions early, seek context, and incorporate feedback effectively. Communicate proactively around priorities, blockers, and deadlines.
What We Are Looking For
Proficiency in Figma and comfort working within a design system or structured visual language Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign); motion skills in After Effects are a plus but not required. Strong grasp of design fundamentals: typography, layout, color, balance, and hierarchy Experience designing landing pages, marketing pages, or UI components for modern responsive or adaptive layouts Excellent communication skills, especially when working remotely and asynchronously Strong attention to detail and organized file management (clean layers and labeled components make us very happy) Ability to take direction, ask clarifying questions, and thoughtfully incorporate feedback Curiosity about tech Please mention the word **HONORING** and tag RMTY3LjIzNS4xMy4xNg== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTY3LjIzNS4xMy4xNg==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.
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