- Job title
- Core Product Designer
- Job location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Job description
- **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.
