Citizen helps you stay safe & informed, by providing instant notifications and live broadcasts of reported crimes and incidents near you. Backed by Sequoia and Lux.
About the role
Citizen is the #1 safety app in the U.S. Every day, thousands of videos are captured live at the scene of real incidents and distributed in real time to people in every major American city. No other consumer product has this. It is a live network, a newsroom, and a safety tool at once, and it is growing again. We are rebuilding Citizen as an AI-native company. Engineering and operations already run with AI agents working alongside humans. Product design is next, and you will define what that looks like.
What they're looking for
- You have spent roughly a decade designing consumer mobile products that millions of people use, end to end, and shipping them. You have taste, and you can show the work that proves it
- You have discernment. Given a hundred generated options, you know which three are worth a human's attention and can say why in a sentence. This is the skill that matters most here
- You have made something that did not exist before. A new interaction, a new category, a product people described as "the first one that felt like the future." You want to do it again
- High agency. Handed a direction, you come back with a better one. You decide, you ship, and you build the tool when it does not exist
- You build with AI already. You have opinions about what the tools can and cannot do, you have replaced parts of your own workflow with agents, and you are paying attention to what is next
- You think in systems: type, color, motion, sound, and how a design language survives contact with a team and a fleet of agents
More about this role
I design. I always have. For years I did it with a small team and a lot of late nights, and it got Citizen to millions of people. Now I do it with agents, and the gap between an idea and a working build on my phone is measured in hours. I need one designer who works that way with me: someone with real taste who would rather ship the prototype than polish the deck, and who is willing to own what people pay for, not just what they see. You will get direct feedback from me, and I want it back. You will also see your work in front of millions of people faster than anywhere else you have been.
Citizen is the #1 safety app in the U.S. Every day, thousands of videos are captured live at the scene of real incidents and distributed in real time to people in every major American city. No other consumer product has this. It is a live network, a newsroom, and a safety tool at once, and it is growing again.
We are rebuilding Citizen as an AI-native company. Engineering and operations already run with AI agents working alongside humans. Product design is next, and you will define what that looks like.
You will be the senior product designer for Citizen's consumer mobile experience and the...
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