Words are my matter.

–– Ursula K. LeGuin

About Matter

Matter is building the future of reading.

We're a small, productive team that obsesses about craft, speed, and pushing technical boundaries in service of building the best reading experience imaginable.

We've raised $9M while in private beta from GV, Y Combinator, and many stellar angels, and we just launched to public beta. (You can read more about our launch here.)

We're Hiring

We're looking for people who care deeply about building high quality software.

We’re a fully remote and distributed team (preference for at least six hours of overlap with Pacific Standard Time). We use modern tools like Linear, Figma, Superhuman, Loom, and Around for collaborative work.

We offer generous salary, equity, and benefits (including unlimited budget for books), and the freedom to define your ideal schedule and office set up.

Design Lead

Design is at the heart of our product and you’ll be the one who owns it. Our CEO has been the designer to date and it’s now time to bring on a world class lead to take Matter to the next level.

What You'll Do:

As our first designer, you’ll own all facets of design, from the 10,000-ft level (what’s our information architecture?) to the 1-inch level (should this spring animation take 400 or 300 milliseconds?).

You’ll design across mobile, tablet, web, and email.

You’ll understand our users’ jobs-to-be-done, shape our roadmap, and figure out how features should work, look, and feel.

You’ll work with our CEO and engineers in tight, demo-oriented feedback cycles and you’ll work closely with our engineers on implementation. We ship quickly and you’ll help push the pace.

Who You Are: