Join Our Team

Our mission:

At Kanary, we focus on improving people’s online security. It’s a cat and mouse game and can be adversarial. Cybersecurity has always been this way, but now the scale of AI-driven attacks on individuals is unprecedented. Attacks feel more personal while be more automated than ever. This is why our products focus on personal data monitoring, privacy, and security first.

The consumer security industry has been slow to react and meet the expectations of a digitally native generation. We’re facing the consequences of letting powerful organizations and bad actors have unfettered access to our information. People are waking up and realizing another ‘set it and forget it’ system or insurance policy won’t help. The imperative is to be transparent, actionable, and connected. Privacy isn’t about hiding.

If you’re interested in the opportunity to fill a growing gap in millions of people’s online experience, keep reading.

Why design matters at Kanary

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.

What are the comp & benefits?

• Salary ranges between $150k-$200k

• Generous founders equity

• Healthcare stipend

• 2-3 meeting free days per week

• Unlimited vacation, 4 weeks encouraged, 1.5 weeks off at end of year

• Fully remote team, hub in Seattle

• Quarterly in-person off-sites (fully paid) with nice views

What is the interview process?

• Email [email protected] with an intro and where you see the most potential for Kanary's product design.

• Intro with founder

• Portfolio review

• Design exercise

• Intros with engineers

• References

• Contract to hire project (est 2 weeks, flexible)

• Offer

We make decisions within 3-5 weeks.

Please only reach out if you are located in the US and have work authorization.

Our mission:

At Kanary, we’re building tools to protect people from the next generation of online threats. Cybersecurity has always been adversarial, but the rise of AI-driven attacks has made them more personal and more automated. That’s why we focus on monitoring and removing personal data, putting privacy and security back in the hands of individuals.

The consumer security industry hasn’t kept up. While bad actors and powerful platforms exploit personal data, most solutions offer false peace of mind with 'set it and forget it' tools that don't work. People want transparency, action, and control. Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about giving people agency.

If you're excited to help close the growing gap in online protection for millions, we want to talk to you.

How you’ll help achieve it:

We’ve grown fast through referrals and warm leads, and are ready to scale. You’ll own and accelerate the sales motion: running demos, closing deals, activating networks, and leveling up our process.

You’ll work directly with the founders, have clear ICPs and messaging, and help shape how we go to market. We're a remote, venture backed startup with a close-knit culture. We move fast, track key metrics daily, and prioritize high-impact work. Weekly scoping is hands on and collaborative, taking into account feedback from product, engineering, sales, marketing and support. We've been intentional about building a fantastic, collaborative team with quarterly off-sites, flexibility, and cross-functional collaboration.

This is a chance to lead sales at a mission-driven startup, build systems that work, and grow with a team that’s all in. If you're excited by these challenges, we want you with us.

Comp/Benefits

• Competitive salary base + commission on recognized revenue

• Generous equity

• Healthcare stipend

• Unlimited vacation, 4 weeks encouraged + scheduled team mental health days

• Quarterly in-person off-sites (fully paid) with nice views

Next steps

Email [email protected]. Include descriptions of past work & what excites you about Kanary. We are moving quickly and this process takes ~3 weeks.

Our mission:

At Kanary, we’re building tools to protect people from the next generation of online threats. Cybersecurity has always been adversarial, but the rise of AI-driven attacks has made them more personal and more automated. That’s why we focus on monitoring and removing personal data, putting privacy and security back in the hands of individuals.

The consumer security industry hasn’t kept up. While bad actors and powerful platforms exploit personal data, most solutions offer false peace of mind with 'set it and forget it' tools that don't work. People want transparency, action, and control. Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about giving people agency.

If you're excited to help close the growing gap in online protection for millions, we want to talk to you.

How you'll help achieve it:

We’ve built a set of systems unique to our development environment. You'll help shape hypotheses, track core metrics, and work to move them. We delete code. If something fails, we learn, and then we clean it up. We aim for tech debt to be actionable. We celebrate this ratio on a pull request.

Building the best product and experience for our members is always the goal. Weekly scoping is hands on and collaborative, not top down. You'll work directly with customers in our Discord server to get feedback, share ideas, and fix bugs.

We run quarterly in-person off sites. Living in an Airbnb together for a few days is a stretch of no-distractions time. You'll be able to voice what's holding us back, workshop solutions, and start implementing change immediately with the entire team. Balanced with a flexible and autonomous remote work culture, off sites give us a taste of the silicon valley hacker house without the burn out.

You’ll be architecting and building a system that is rigid enough to provide economies of scale but flexible enough to support infinite integrations. This is an investment in proprietary technology and proprietary data that creates leverage to build better and better systems.

Comp/Benefits

• Salary ranges between $170k-$200k USD

• Generous founders equity

• Healthcare stipend

• 2-3 meeting free days per week

• Unlimited vacation, 4 weeks encouraged + scheduled team mental health days

• Quarterly in-person off-sites (fully paid) with nice views

Next steps

• Email [email protected]. Include links to past work & what excites you about Kanary.

• Intro with Founder

• Intro with Engineering Lead

• Programming interview

• Team exercise

• Paid 2-5 day project with the team (can be nights/weekend if you need the flexibility)

• Offer

We are moving quickly and this process takes ~3 weeks.

Please only reach out if you are located in the US and have work authorization.