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

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

Core Product Designer

About the role

About Candle

Required skills

Other roles at Candle

Job details

Company

Funding

Founders

What happens next.

Confirm the fit

I pitch you to the company

A meeting lands on your calendar