Help revolutionize digital safety through clear, thoughtful product UX and visual design. You’ll work closely with the founding team to shape Kanary’s mobile and web products, improve usability, and build a scalable design system from the ground up. We're looking for a designer who is a strong executor, fast learner, creative thinker, and is ready to shape a cutting-edge personal security product.

Many security tools are confusing, overwhelming, or lack transparency. They lose people at the exact moment they need support or never reach them at all. At Kanary, we see design as a bridge that makes the complex feel simple, the experience feel safe, and the next steps feel obvious.

This work isn’t about technical controls and status updates. It’s about clarity, trust, and meeting people where they are. We move quickly, test early, and keep things simple with room for creativity.

Your day to day:

Build and maintain a flexible design system, create components from scratch and clarify existing patterns across web, mobile, email, and marketing to accelerate learning
Review user session recordings, error states, and churn patterns to test the impact of new features, notifications, onboarding flows, or copy
Design product flows from wireframes to high-fidelity UI. Lead design for foundational product features like global controls, chat, and recommendations.
Work within weekly sprints and communicate clearly when more challenging work needs more clarity on scope or more time to get to the version members will love.
Reference best-in-class UX from inside and outside the security industry, Kanary should feel trustworthy, but never cold or rigid.
Spot emotional high points in the user journey and explore ways to highlight and celebrate them.
Think critically about what prevents people from being proactive about digital safety, and how we can encourage new habits both inside and outside of the product.

What makes you a good fit:

You're excited to work with a tight-knit startup and see your designs improve customers' safety every day. As the only designer on the team, there will be zero bureaucracy or red tape, but there also won't be many established design best practices or advisors to guide you every step of the way. This should be a positive! And you should be ready to chart your own course and bring your vision to life.

You have experience designing apps for thousands or millions of active users. Our team will want to see several zero-to-one projects in your portfolio as well as experience embedding into an existing design team and system. This level of performance typically comes with 3-5 years of experience or a degree in design, but we believe potential is more important than tenure. For the right person, this role will include the opportunity to grow and lead a design team in the next 6 months.

Learn more:

https://www.kanary.com/join-the-team#senior-product-designer