What Kind of Designers Is the National Design Studio Hiring?

Joe Gebbia says the National Design Studio is looking for hardcore product user experience design at the core. Government processes are gnarly, and retirement is a small version of the kind of flow the studio has to turn into something much simpler and easier to navigate.

Only a couple of seats are on the team. He has 12 to 15 jerseys to give out, so each person needs range, whether in motion design, typography, design systems, or visual design, and must handle really complex user experience flows.

Social Security is by far the largest user base of any product the government offers. 200 million plus people have some connection to a Social Security card, a Social Security account, or a benefit paid out later. Someone born in the United States gets a Social Security number. The program is a central promise of society going back almost 100 years, and it has never benefited from the rest of the world as technology has advanced.