Character AI / Trust and Safety, Growth, and Core Experience
Trust and Safety / Enforcement and reporting
Project management: Aditya Nag
Head of content policy: Cathryn Weems
Engineering: Anil Tolwani and Emmanuel Garcia
Led design for enforcement and reporting for users and characters. The scope of work included user accounts, character creation, approval, management, and chat moderation, with a focus on providing transparency around what actions were taken and why. Emphasis was placed on improving how enforcement is experienced by users while ensuring the safety of individuals and the broader community.
Growth / New user experience
Head of product engineering: John Egan
Engineering: Kenny Pirman, Liam Esliger, Zhengming Wang, Alec White, Muyang Li, Jon Abrams, JD Cumpson, and Charles Buhler
Qualitative research and curation: Jia Lim
Led design for the new user experience across all platforms including sign-up, personalization, education, feedback, and notification flows which contributed to growing and retaining a 20M user base and achieving an industry-leading 24% 7-day retention rate.
Core Experience / Design language
Provided visual language direction for key product surfaces including the home feed, profile, and character creation, serving as inspiration for the broader design organization.