About this role
Brand Designer
Job Description Railway makes it absurdly simple for developers to ship software without ever thinking about servers. 300k+ builders use us daily. Our .com is their first impression, a product in itself, and a direct signal of our craft standards.
The .com is a living artifact, and you're the person responsible for making it feel premium and impossible to ignore. You'll think in systems, ship with craft, and are equally at home in Figma, a code editor, Claude, and a conversation about strategy.
This is a high-autonomy IC role within Brand Design. You'll work closely with Brand, Marketing, Engineering, and our CEO. You have taste, you ship, you iterate.
About the Role
Own the railway.com experience end-to-end: information architecture, visual design, and interactions. Partner with engineering on implementation, with performance always in mind Drive landing page strategy and execution: new feature pages, comparison pages, campaign landing pages Concept and build interactive, experimental experiences that push what a .com can do Translate complex infra concepts into visual metaphors that actually land with developers Ship launch week campaign materials: identity, web artifacts, swag direction Measure what matters: conversion, engagement, and iterate with real signal Build self-service design systems, templates, and toolkits so marketing partners can ship fast without breaking the brand Constantly evaluate new AI tools, workflows, and capabilities, and fold what's useful into how the whole team works
About you
4+ years crafting outstanding digital experiences: brand, web, interactive, all of it A portfolio that proves range: you've done things that were hard and weird and beautiful You have strong opinions about typography You've shipped stuff that made other designers go "wait, how did they do that" A systems brain. You don't just design a page, you design how all the pages relate and how non-designers can use those systems without breaking them Experience with motion and animation. Timing is not an afterthought to you Ability to own the .com from concept to shipped without needing a hand to hold Prior experience in abstract technical products (dev tools, infra, SaaS). You know how to make the invisible feel tangible AI tools are a regular part of how you work. You experiment with what's new and share what you learn.
Additional strengths
You've messed around with shaders, 3D, WebGL Motion design or animation experience beyond basic transitions
We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds
Things to know
For better or worse, we're a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages. We're globally distributed—and getting more so. Stuff is always happening somewhere. We don't expect you to be online all the time, but you'll need to be diligent about your boundaries — your end of day will overlap with someone else's start. We're a small, hig