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Product Designer

Contract · Mac & iOS App Focus

About Intension

Over the past decade, average attention spans have fallen to roughly 47 seconds. Meanwhile, the AI systems being built around us are increasingly optimized for engagement and capture. The result is a fundamental misalignment: our tools are learning to steal our attention, not steward it.

We're building the opposite: a tool that makes your attention visible to you, so you can see your patterns, understand how your digital environment shapes your focus, and make deliberate choices about how you spend it. Based in New York City. Backed by True Ventures, Betaworks, and Slack Fund.

Overview

This role transforms complex ideas about cognition and attention into tangible product experiences, while maintaining design coherence across all company surfaces. You'll shape product direction through research and prototyping, contribute to establishing design foundations, and help ensure a unified design language from product through to brand.

How do you show someone their own attention in a way they immediately understand and trust?

With our primary focus on Mac and native app, deep familiarity with Apple platform conventions and a strong instinct for native-feeling interactions are central to this role.

The Engagement

Contract, 4 to 6 weeks, with the potential to grow into an ongoing role for the right person.

Starting from an existing base and with existing concepts, you'll design the core product surfaces for a native macOS application: how attention data is visualized, how users explore their patterns over time, and how the product communicates state across ambient, contextual, and immersive views. The end goal is a fully functional design handoff to engineering.

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs across Mac, iOS, and web — with Mac as the primary surface
• Figma components and design tokens: contributing to an emerging design system so your work hands off cleanly and scales.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure design feasibility and execution quality
• Contribute to product strategy, roadmap, and prioritization alongside the CEO and technical co-founder

Who We're Looking For

You'll be a strong fit if you see yourself in these statements:

• You've shipped product design for native apps, macOS or iOS or both.
• You can turn concepts or ideas into a complete macOS design handoff including states, screen size considerations, navigational hierarchy and UX.
• You prototype and build, not just mock. Figma prototypes, code-based explorations, AI-assisted implementation: you close the gap between design and engineering.
• Comfortable in 0→1 product environments with high ambiguity and rapid iteration. Given clear direction on what a feature should accomplish and how it should feel, you can make the hundred small decisions that make it real. You don't wait for a spec to cover every case.
• You can share work in progress. You do not deliver entire projects at once.

Nice-to-Haves

• Background in AI, productivity tools, or attention/cognition-related products
• Basic coding ability (HTML/CSS/JS or React components)
• Experience designing for multiple surfaces (Mac, iOS, web) within a single product
• Published writing or talks on design practice

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If designing the experience layer for a genuinely new kind of personal interface sounds like the kind of problem you want to spend time on, we'd like to hear from you.

hello@intension.us for inquiries.