Lead Designer (Interaction + Experience)

About mā

mā is building the first operating system that understands your life as a field. We unify body, mind, and meaning into a single living signal, and use it to guide people toward coherence.

Our system senses, thinks, and guides in real time, combining LLMs, behavior modeling, and ambient hardware into one generative life interface. We’re not optimizing dashboards. We’re designing a new kind of intelligence: spiritual silicon, with real-world precision.

We’re tight team based in San Francisco, working in-person with full clarity and conviction. Backed by investors who bet on outlier ideas, we already have the product vision, GTM, and runway in place, now we’re engineering the tech that can reshape how humans live.

About the role

We’re looking for a Lead Designer to help architect the future of interaction in a post-AI world. This is not UI work. This is soul work.

You’ll design the interface layer of mā—spanning mobile, ambient hardware, and future platforms—so it feels intelligent, effortless, and alive. You’ll collaborate across AI, product, and hardware to create an experience that doesn’t just work, but resonates.

This is not a mere screen designing job. You’ll shape rituals, emotions, experience, and meaning through interaction. You’ll design an ethereal presence. The system is ambient, embodied, and narrative-driven—and your job is to make it feel inevitable.

What you’ll do

• Design the first coherent interface for a generative health OS—across mobile, physical, and ambient contexts

• Develop a signature interaction language rooted in calm technology, rhythm, and narrative

• Collaborate closely with AI engineers to choreograph conversational and sensory feedback

• Translate LLM behavior into emotionally precise experiences: the right nudge, the right tone, the right time

• Design rituals, flows, microinteractions, and animations that feel coherent and subtle—not performative

• Define visual tone, hierarchy, and motion—not just for screens, but for presence

• Work directly with the founder to synthesize abstract vision into applied interaction logic

• Build initial design systems, flows, and handoff specs for frontend implementation

What we’re looking for

• Obsessive interaction designer with strong systems and UX thinking

• Track record designing fluid, elegant, emotionally resonant interfaces

• Comfort working across digital and physical touchpoints (mobile, IoT, sensors, voice, etc.)

• Sensitivity to language, timing, and mood in interface design

• Strong visual and typographic sensibility—but obsessed with feel more than pixels

• High agency, low ego, loves building from first principles

• Bonus: experience with prototyping tools, motion, or ambient UI concepts

You’ll thrive here if you

• Want to design for consciousness, not conversion

• Crave in-person collaboration and focused iteration

• Prefer inventing new interaction paradigms over polishing existing ones

• Feel deeply drawn to aesthetic minimalism, embodied intelligence, and poetic precision

• See design as a medium for guiding human transformation—not just usability

(Full-time) Employee Benefits:

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision

• 401(k) matching

• Real compensation: salary + meaningful equity

• No startup drama. Just clarity and conviction.

• We cover anything that expands your craft—books, tools, courses, retreats, mentors. No cap.