Tailscale - Brand Designer

• Design landing pages, feature pages, and campaign experiences that are visually compelling and easy to use. • Balance brand expression with usability and performance goals. • Understand and apply accessibility and inclusive design principles. • Translate brand into scalable web systems • 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. • Effectively manage projects and timelines • 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. • Support experimentation and iteration • 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. • Collaborate cross-functionally • 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. • Clearly and confidently explain design rationale and tradeoffs, understanding when to compromise and when to stand firm in design decisions. • Proactively communicate: share project status updates without prompting and provide timely, constructive, and actionable feedback on others’ work as needed. • 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 • UX awareness and digital thinking • 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 • Technical and executional strength • Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and AfterEffects), and Google Slides • Strong attention to detail and organized file management (clean layers and labeled components make us very happy) • 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 • Communication and collaboration • 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 • Experience working on high-growth marketing or product websites • Experience working on a remote or globally distributed team • Familiarity with experimentation or A/B testing workflows • Experience partnering closely with developers on implementation • Interest in developer tools, infrastructure, or technical products • An understanding of how design impacts conversion, engagement, and performance • Experience with motion graphics or simple animations • Technical illustration, data visualization, or diagramming experience • 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. • $122,000—$153,000 USD • Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic! • We encourage you to help us break that statistic!