Core Product Designer
About the role
Core product designer role at Candle focusing on owning core surfaces, system-level design, end-to-end shipping, and emotional, habit-forming UX for a daily-connected experience.
Responsibilities
- Own core surfaces. Design and evolve the heart of the Candle experience, including daily challenges, streaks, games, onboarding, discovery, notifications, and more.
- Think in systems. Craft emotional loops, streak mechanics, reward systems, and connection rituals to drive daily engagement.
- Ship end-to-end. Concept → prototype → polished UI → shipped feature, working directly with founders and engineers to bring ideas live fast.
- Invent new formats, design to market. Create 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; every pixel matters.
Qualifications
- 2+ years designing and shipping consumer mobile products
- Portfolio showing 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)
- High product intuition and ability to think like a PM when needed
- Care about user psychology
Skills
About Candle
Candle helps couples and friends grow closer daily in just 5 minutes.
Most relationships, romantic or platonic, don’t end in one moment, they drift apart over time. Missed check-ins, surface-level conversations, busy lives, and routines replace real connection. Candle helps couples and friends stay close through 1-minute daily rituals that bring back presence, play, and curiosity. Candle gives couples and friends a daily, low-pressure game designed to create emotional momentum: the most essential, and often most neglected, ingredient in long-term connection. What started as a swipeable questions game has grown into a full platform and private space for your relationship: - Daily Prompts & Games: Thoughtful, funny, and unexpected questions, couple quizzes, audio and photo challenges that update and adapt monthly - Shared Canvas Widget: Leave notes, doodles, or drawings right on each other’s home screen - Now in beta: Date Ideas Swiping**: Get 60 curated date ideas based on your area (yes, even San Francisco :)), updated weekly. Swipe to match on what you both want to try. From pop-up events to hidden gems, it’s the easiest way to try something new together or even with friends or family! We’d love feedback here! - Streaks & Shared Progress — Build accountability and a shared rhythm - Adaptive Decks: Smarter, more relevant questions over time - Shared Photo Albums & Memories: Keep track of all your photos and logged memories
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