Brand Designer

Tin Can is building a safer, simpler way for kids to connect—without smartphones. We're creating delightful devices and services that let families call the people who matter most, free from the noise of today's digital world. It’s about unblocking connection and building confidence and independence. We're building a bold, authentic, and kinda quirky brand that resonates with folks who want something simpler + better for their kids than the tech-infused lives we're currently living (and who have a sense of humor about it).

We’re looking for a Brand Designer who loves making things. You’ll be a key creative partner cross-departmentally, helping bring Tin Can’s ideas to life across every place our brand shows up. From social posts and email to community resources, external presentations, referral program content, app and everything in between, you’ll turn creative direction into thoughtful, polished, unmistakably Tin Can design. You’ll take established brand direction and run with it: taking a brief, figuring out what it needs, designing the thing, refining the details, and getting it out the door.

You’ll have a strong eye, a good instinct for what feels fresh, and the ability to move quickly without sacrificing the work.

• Bring creative concepts and campaigns to life across social, web, email, packaging, retail, events, and other brand touchpoints
• Act as a right hand to the Design Director, helping translate creative direction into strong visual executions
• Partner closely with our media and social leads to develop scroll-stopping social content, from individual posts to larger social moments and campaigns
• Take creative briefs and turn them into thoughtful, polished design solutions
• Design everything from big visual moments to the tiny details that make a piece of work feel special
• Adapt and extend creative across formats, platforms, and channels while keeping the work cohesive
• Help evolve and maintain Tin Can’s visual language through the day-to-day work
• Collaborate with copywriters, marketers, social, product, and other teams to make ideas better and bring them over the finish line
• Work with photographers, illustrators, animators, production partners, and other creatives as needed
• Build templates, toolkits, and systems that help the team create great work efficiently
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines while keeping quality high
• Be an active participant in critiques, brainstorms, and creative reviews

• Making. You genuinely like getting into the work and making things look good.
• Visual problem-solving. You know how to make a brief stronger through design and take a creative idea and figure out how to make it work across different formats and channels, not just decorate it.
• The details. Typography, composition, hierarchy, spacing, image selection, color, and all the little things that separate “fine” from “heck yes.”
• Moving quickly. You can work within a bit of ambiguity in a fast-moving environment, prioritize, and keep projects moving without needing everything perfectly figured out upfront.
• Collaboration. You’re comfortable working closely with creative leads and channel owners, taking direction, contributing ideas, and making the work better together.
• Brand consistency. You understand how to work within an established visual identity while still finding ways to keep it feeling fresh.

• 3–5+ years of experience in brand design, graphic design, or a similar creative role
• A portfolio that shows excellent visual design and strong execution across multiple channels
• Strong typography, layout, composition, and production skills
• Experience designing for social and digital platforms
• Comfort working within an existing brand system and…