Tailscale

Brand Designer

Tailscale

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $122,000 - $153,000 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Design high-quality web experiences
  • Design landing pages, feature pages, and campaign experiences that are visually compelling and easy to use.
  • Apply strong hierarchy, layout, and interaction thinking to improve clarity and user flow.
  • Balance brand expression with usability and performance goals.
  • Understand and apply accessibility and inclusive design principles.
  • Work within and extend our design system to create reusable, scalable components.
  • Improve templates, layouts, and patterns used across the site.
  • Ensure consistency while evolving the brand for digital environments.
  • Own moderately complex projects and initiatives end-to-end, not just tasks, with guidance from Brand Design Lead.
  • Surface project ambiguity early and identify potential blockers, proactively proposing actionable solutions.
  • Prioritize deadlines effectively, balancing speed, quality, and craft to consistently deliver polished, production-ready assets across digital and print.
  • Maintains organized component and asset libraries that scale across the team, enabling others to easily adopt and build on established systems.
  • Collaborate with the growth team on testing and improving page performance.
  • Thoughtfully iterate on designs based on data, feedback, and evolving priorities.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve user experience across key journeys.
  • Partner closely with web developers to ensure designs translate cleanly into production with minimal to no rework.
  • Work with marketing and content teams to bring campaigns and narratives to life across multiple platforms: print, digital, and motion.

Requirements

  • 3-6+ years of experience in brand, marketing, or web design
  • 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
  • Ability to apply UX principles like usability, information hierarchy, and interaction patterns
  • Comfortable thinking about how design decisions impact user behavior and outcomes
  • Experience working on websites, landing pages, or digital campaigns
  • Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and AfterEffects), and Google Slides
  • Strong attention to detail and organized file management
  • Experience working within or alongside design systems
  • Ability to deliver polished, production-ready designs and collaborate effectively cross-departments
  • Solid understanding of accessibility and inclusive design principles
  • Experience in print production, with an understanding of technical requirements and executional standards across out-of-home, events, and swag/merch applications
  • Excellent communication skills, especially when working remotely and asynchronously
  • Ability to clearly present work and explain design decisions
  • Ability to take direction, ask clarifying questions, and thoughtfully incorporate feedback while maintaining design integrity
  • Consistently meets or beats deadlines, demonstrating increased trust, reliability, and ownership.
Benefits
  • An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
  • A competitive total compensation package.
  • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
  • Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely.
  • Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.
  • Support for your personal and professional development.
  • Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.
  • A build-your-own home office setup.
  • Generous parental leave program from your first day.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
web designUX principlestypographylayoutcolorinteraction patternsresponsive designdesign systemsaccessibility designprint production
Soft Skills
attention to detailcommunication skillscollaborationproblem-solvingtime managementadaptabilityfeedback incorporationownershipreliabilitycreativity