Core Product Designer

What You’ll Do

• Own core surfaces.
• Design and evolve the heart of the Candle experience. This includes the daily challenges, streaks, games, onboarding, discovery, notifications, and more.
• Think in systems.
• Craft emotional loops, streak mechanics, reward systems, and connection rituals that drive daily engagement.
• Ship end-to-end.
• From concept → prototype → polished UI → shipped feature. You’ll work directly with founders and engineers to bring ideas live fast.
• Invent new formats, design to market
• Design new interaction patterns for connection and marketing: collaborative canvases, async voice, micro-games, emotional check-ins, rituals, etc.
• Obsess over details.
• Typography, motion, haptics, micro-interactions, empty states, streak animations, the small things matter here a lot. Every pixel is questioned.

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years designing and shipping consumer mobile products
• A portfolio that shows taste, restraint, and strong interaction thinking
• Deep understanding of mobile UX patterns and emotional design
• Strong Figma skills (components, systems, prototyping)
• Ability to prototype interactive flows (bonus: React Native, SwiftUI, Framer, ProtoPie, etc.)
• High product intuition, you can think like a PM when needed

You care about user psychology

Bonus if

• You’ve worked on social, gaming, or habit-forming products
• You’ve built and shipped your own app
• Have done animations with Rive

Why This Is Different

• You’ll work directly with founders and exited founders (Apple, Twitter, NASA engineers, Forbes 30u30 )
• Your work will be seen by hundreds of thousands within days
• We ship fast, experiments go live weekly
• We care deeply about emotional impact, not vanity metrics
• You’ll help define the design language of a generational consumer brand
• If you want to design something people use every single day with someone they love, this is that opportunity.