Senior Product Design Engineer, Notifications – Real-Time Safety

Citizen

Senior Design Engineer designing notification experiences for real-time safety at Citizen in NYC. Collaborating across teams to ensure users receive tailored alerts and enhancing internal tools.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $155,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ReactReact Native

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and ship core notification experiences that drive retention and engagement, from UX flows and interaction patterns to the underlying rules that govern relevance, timing, and frequency.
Own the end‑to‑end system for “real‑time safety” UX across notifications, feeds, and key in‑app surfaces, ensuring users feel informed, not overwhelmed.
Prototype with code (web/mobile, whatever you’re fluent in) to explore interactions, flows, and ranking behaviors, and use those prototypes in‑person with the team to align Product, Engineering, Data, and Ops.
Use AI as a first‑class tool in your workflow: concept exploration, research synthesis, design variations, microcopy, sound and motion studies, component generation, and scaffolding for front‑end implementations.
Design persona‑ and segment‑aware experiences that flex by behavior, neighborhood, and intent, so different users get notification and feed patterns that feel tailored to them.
Collaborate with Product and Data to define retention and engagement hypotheses, design A/B tests, and turn insights into clear system changes, not just UI tweaks.
Partner with Operations and Trust & Safety to make sure workflows, tools, and UX support fast but responsible decisions about what gets alerted, when, and to whom.
Raise the bar on internal tools and pipelines, designing and building small utilities, dashboards, and AI workflows that make the whole NYC team faster and more creative.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in a role that blends product design and front-end engineering (e.g., design engineer, product-minded front-end engineer, product designer who codes, or similar)
Strong portfolio of shipped work on consumer products, ideally with real-time, feed, or notification-heavy experiences
Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate design and/or engineering workflows (include concrete examples in your portfolio or application)
Fluency in modern design tools (e.g., Figma) and front-end technologies (e.g., React/React Native, SwiftUI, or similar—framework isn’t dogmatic, shipping is)
Experience collaborating closely with PM, Engineering, and Data to define problems, run experiments, and measure outcomes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

At least one fully employer-sponsored medical plan option
Dental and vision coverage, with a small employee contribution
Unlimited PTO
Up to 14 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents)
Monthly tech stipend
Free mental health support
Hybrid work environment + catered lunches (NYC HQ)

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designfront-end engineeringUX designA/B testingAI toolsReactReact NativeSwiftUIprototypinginteraction design

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcreativityuser empathydata-driven decision makingadaptabilityteam alignmentcritical thinkingresponsibility