Brand Designer

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 technology, networking, or security (no background needed, just interest and willingness to learn)

Nice to Have

• Experience with technical subjects and information architecture
• Experience creating visual material for complex SaaS technology solutions at a B2B or enterprise technology company
• Experience crafting, maintaining, and standardizing the use of brand guidelines
• Front-end development skills

Why Join Us?

• A chance to shape the brand: this is the first junior designer on the team, and you’ll have a real hand in helping the brand evolve and scale.
• Mentorship and growth: work closely with an experienced brand team committed to helping you grow your skills.
• Variety and exploration: you’ll work across campaigns, web, motion, print, and internal communications; no two days look the same.
• Collaborative culture: join a thoughtful, supportive, remote-friendly team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and curiosity.

As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary. Individual offers may vary based on experience and skill set.