Brand Designer

• 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

What We Are Looking For

• 3+ years of professional experience in brand, marketing, or visual design

• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional 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, improve project organization, and make collaboration more effective through thoughtful recommendations.

• Curious by nature, with a desire to learn about the technical world of networking.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing for B2B SaaS or developer-focused products

• Familiarity with design systems and component libraries

• Motion design or animation experience

• Illustration or icon design experience

• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS and web design constraints

• Experience supporting experimentation, conversion optimization, or growth marketing initiatives

• Experience working in fast-paced startup or scale-up environments

• Experience art-directing or mentoring junior designers

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.

CAN Pay Range

$163,480 — $205,020 CAD

What We Offer

• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self. We recognize the impact of diverse voices and backgrounds on the growth of our people, product, and company. And that flexibility in how and when you work empowers our team to integrate work and life.

• A competitive total compensation package. This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles).

• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period. Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family!

• Remote first company —most of our teams work fully remotely. Enjoy a change of scenery wherever you can get wifi, participate in virtual and in-person social events, and leverage our corporate co-working program to visit WeWork (or other similar spaces near you). Some roles require in-office collaboration depending on team needs, which will be clearly noted in the job description.

• Employer-funded retirement contributions. Tailscale will match your retirement contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of your eligible compensation.

• Connect with other Tailscalars IRL. Attend our annual company retreat, participate in team off-sites, and collaborate in person with teammates across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. We support intentional in-person connection through team travel and distributed collaboration.

• Support for your personal and professional development. Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.

• Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world!

• A build-your-own home office setup. You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own.

• Paid parental leave program . We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing parents).

Tailscale is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring process. If you require an accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process or related to any aspect of this role, please contact your recruiter.

Our hiring process uses AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess candidates. All hiring decisions are made by people.

Please be aware that legitimate emails from Tailscale's talent team will only originate from @tailscale.com, @greenhouse.io, and @interviews.modernloop.io email addresses. For more information about protecting yourself from impersonators and scams, please visit https://tailscale.com/scam-awareness .

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Source: We Work Remotely