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.