Core Product Designer
Core Product Designer at Candle — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Candle
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 170000–260000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
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.