Brand Designer — Remote, Build Cohesive Brand Systems

Tailscale; Canada; Remote; CAD 163,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

Equity included

Group benefits

Retirement contributions match

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Tailscale is seeking an experienced Brand Designer to bring our brand to life across customer touchpoints, helping people understand our products and trust our technical messaging. You will own projects from concept to delivery, shaping how we communicate visually at scale.

You will collaborate with Brand, Growth, Web, Content, Product Marketing, and Developer Relations, while operating autonomously with minimal direction to produce high-quality, production-ready work for digital and print.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in brand, marketing, or visual design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design foundations: color theory, accessibility, typography, layout, and storytelling
• Fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud
• Experience designing for digital marketing, websites, campaigns, and brand systems
• Strong understanding of production-ready design across digital and print
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities with minimal oversight
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with marketers, writers, developers, and other designers
• Strong attention to detail with a high bar for quality and consistency
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive design feedback
• Actively seeks opportunities to refine processes and collaboration
• Curious by nature with a desire to learn about networking

Responsibilities

• Own brand design projects from creative brief through final delivery with limited guidance
• Design high-quality assets across web, campaigns, events, social media, presentations, product marketing, and internal communications
• Apply and thoughtfully extend Tailscale's visual identity across new formats and channels
• Create reusable templates, design systems, and creative processes that improve consistency and efficiency
• Partner closely with Growth, Web, Product Marketing, Content, and Developer Relations to deliver cohesive customer experiences
• Present design concepts and rationale to stakeholders and thoughtfully incorporate feedback
• Balance multiple projects while consistently delivering polished, production-ready work
• Contribute ideas that improve the quality, scalability, and effectiveness of our creative work

Skills

Brand design

Marketing design

Visual design

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Digital marketing

Web design

Brand systems

Color theory

Typography

Accessibility

Layout

Storytelling

Communication

Presentation

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Design feedback

Curiosity

Networking concepts

Tools

HTML/CSS

Job description

Tailscale is seeking an experienced Brand Designer to bring our brand to life across customer touchpoints, helping people understand our products and trust our technical messaging. You will own projects from concept to delivery, shaping how we communicate visually at scale.

You will collaborate with Brand, Growth, Web, Content, Product Marketing, and Developer Relations, while operating autonomously with minimal direction to produce high-quality, production-ready work for digital and print.