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# Brand Designer at Tin Can

- **Company:** Tin Can
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tin-can/8680ae8f-ef71-46d7-b520-c1bc215cd854

## Job description

## About Tin Can

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).

## The Role

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.

## What You’ll Do

- 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

You’re Great At

- 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.

## What We're Looking For

- 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 extending it into new applications
- Strong Figma and Adobe Creative Suite skills
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- A collaborative, low-ego approach to creative work
- A genuine interest in brands, culture, design, and making things people want to look at

Bonus Points

- Motion or animation skills
- Photography or art direction experience
- Experience with packaging or physical brand experiences
- Experience working at a startup, agency, or other fast-moving creative environment
- An instinct for the weird, clever, colorful, and unexpected

## Why Join Tin Can

- We're building tech that protects childhood: We're on a quest to give kids a more analog childhood — one with real conversations, real connection, and way less screen time. This is a rare opportunity to build something that truly matters.
- Build something from (almost) nothing: most lifecycle roles ask you to optimize an existing program. This one is yours to shape from the ground up, with the freedom to define what good looks like and real ownership over the results.
- A seat with real reach: your work touches nearly every part of the customer journey - giving you outsized influence over retention and revenue, not just one narrow slice of it.
- Small, high-trust team: Every company says "team," but at Tin Can it means something different. We're a small, mission-driven group that genuinely has each other's backs — professionally and personally. Your ideas and instincts matter from day one.

If you're excited by the idea of shaping how thousands of families experience something simpler and better for their kids, please reach out. We can't wait to meet someone who's ready to jump in, set the bar, and help us grow.

## About Tin Can

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tin Can builds a screen-free, Wi-Fi-enabled landline for kids that allows them to call approved contacts without the distractions of a smartphone.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Chet Kittleson, Max Blumen, and Graeme (last name not publicly available)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer Services / Kids’ Communication Hardware
- **Target customers**: B2C – parents of children aged 4–13 who want a safe, screen-free phone option
- **Mission**: “Bring back the freedom of the old-school landline, updated for today’s families.”

## Products & Services
- **[Tin Can Device](https://tincan.kids/)**: A custom-designed, Wi-Fi-connected landline handset with no screen, no apps, no camera, and no browser. It plugs into a wall and connects over Wi-Fi. Parents manage contacts and quiet hours via a companion mobile app.
- **[Can2Can Plan](https://tincan.kids/)**: Free unlimited calling between two Tin Cans, no subscription required.
- **[Party Line Plan](https://tincan.kids/)**: $9.99/month subscription that allows the child to call any regular phone number (grandparents, parents’ cells, etc.) in addition to other Tin Cans. Includes 911 emergency calling.
- **Parent App**: iOS/Android app for approving contacts, setting quiet hours, and managing Do Not Disturb schedules.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $5.75 M
  - Pre-Seed (May 2025): Led by PSL Ventures (9 investors)
  - Seed (Oct 2025): $3.5 M led by Data Tech Fund and PSL Ventures (8 investors)
- **Notable Investors**: PSL Ventures, Data Tech Fund, Greylock (participated in a prior round)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Used by families in 30+ U.S. states with zero paid marketing (organic word-of-mouth)
  - Headcount grew from ~2 to 27 employees (+1,167% YoY)
  - Received 40 early prototypes hand-installed in one Seattle neighborhood; demand spread rapidly

## Competitive Advantages
- **True screen-free experience**: No apps, no texts, no browser – pure voice calling. Eliminates the risks of smartphones (social media, addictive apps, stranger danger).
- **Parental control without complexity**: Parents manage everything via a simple app; kids get independence without internet access.
- **Wi-Fi landline model**: Works with existing home Wi-Fi, no need for a cellular plan or smartphone.
- **Emergency calling**: 911 always available, even without a subscription.
- **Free Can2Can network**: Encourages peer-to-peer calling among friends who also have Tin Cans.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling production of the fully custom hardware (designed from the ground up)
- Expanding the user base beyond the initial 30 states through word-of-mouth and targeted marketing
- Building out the team (active job postings for engineering, design, marketing, and customer experience)
- Maintaining a mission-driven culture focused on intentional technology for kids

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven startup focused on real human connection and “keeping childhood full of imagination, not notifications.” Team is passionate about intentional tech.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/in-office options available. HQ is in Seattle with an in-office workspace; some roles are remote or hybrid.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage company (27 employees) with rapid growth – employees can have outsized impact.
- **Perks**: Not detailed publicly, but typical startup perks (equity, flexible schedule) likely. The company emphasizes a “no surprises” approach to its product.
- **Team composition**: Small, cross-functional team with specialists in customer service, design, engineering, and operations.

## Sources
1. [tincan.kids](https://tincan.kids/)
2. [tincan.kids - About page](https://tincan.kids/pages/about-tin-can)
3. [Built In - Tin Can Careers](https://builtin.com/company/tin-can)
4. [LinkedIn - Tin Can](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tincankids)
5. [Jobs page - Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tin-can)

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