Product Designer | Contract Position

The Date Crew (TDC) | Contract / Freelance

Duration : Approx 2 months

*About The Date Crew

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At The Date Crew, we believe finding a life partner deserves better than swiping through strangers.

We're building a human-first matchmaking experience that combines thoughtful human judgment, personalisation, and technology to help people find meaningful relationships.

We're rethinking what a matchmaking service can feel like: more personal than an algorithm, more delightful than a traditional matrimonial service, and more thoughtful than a dating app.

Today, we're building the digital experience for a high-touch matchmaking service. Tomorrow, we want to build AI-powered matchmaking that feels genuinely human — technology that understands people without making them feel like data points.

We're looking for a designer who can help us bring this experience to life.

*The Role

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We're looking for a Product Designer with strong visual and brand instincts who can own the design experience end to end — from shaping the brand's visual language to designing an exceptional consumer app.

This isn't a role where you'll simply receive wireframes and make them look pretty. You'll help decide what the product should feel like, how it should behave, and how design can make a deeply personal experience feel intuitive, trustworthy, and delightful.

You'll work across product UX/UI, brand identity, design systems, and early AI-powered experiences. We want someone who can combine strong product thinking with exceptional visual taste — someone who understands that in a product as personal as matchmaking, every interaction communicates something about how much we understand and care about our users.

You'll have meaningful ownership, direct access to decision-makers, and the opportunity to shape a product from an early stage.

*What You'll Do

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Design a consumer app people genuinely enjoy using

Own the end-to-end design of our mobile app, from user journeys and information architecture to high-fidelity UI and interactive prototypes.

Turn complex matchmaking workflows into simple, intuitive, and delightful experiences.

Design thoughtful interactions across profile creation, onboarding, preferences, match discovery, introductions, and scheduling.

Make the experience feel personal and engaging without relying on the familiar mechanics of swipe-based dating apps.

Identify friction in the user journey and use design to improve usability, engagement, and conversion.

Build a distinctive visual identity for TDC

Develop a playful, expressive, consumer-first visual language that makes TDC recognisable and memorable.

Translate our human-first philosophy into typography, colour, illustration, motion, iconography, and interaction patterns.

Ensure the brand feels consistent across the app, website, and other digital touchpoints.

Find the balance between warmth, personality, trust, and the credibility expected from a premium matchmaking service.

Create a design system that scales

Build and maintain reusable components, design tokens, interaction patterns, and UI guidelines.

Establish a consistent design language across product flows and future features.

Work closely with engineers to ensure designs are feasible, accessible, responsive where relevant, and implemented with care.

Document design decisions and create clear developer handoffs.

Make technology feel more human

Explore how AI can make matchmaking more personalised, thoughtful, and intuitive.

Design AI-assisted experiences that feel like interacting with someone who understands you, rather than a generic chatbot or recommendation engine.

Help communicate the relationship between human matchmakers and AI in ways that build trust and preserve human judgment.

Think deeply about sensitive moments: sharing preferences, receiving a match, navigating rejection, and making consequential relationship decisions.

Prototype emerging ideas and help define what a genuinely human AI matchmaking experience could look like.

Own the design process end to end

Understand user needs and translate them into product opportunities.

Collaborate with founders, product, engineering, and matchmaking teams to understand real customer problems.

Move comfortably between exploration, wireframing, prototyping, testing, and final execution.

Seek feedback, validate assumptions, and iterate quickly without compromising design quality.

Take ownership of the quality of the final experience, not just the design files.

*What We're Looking For : Must-haves

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-2–5 years of product design experience, ideally building consumer-facing digital products.

-An exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft, thoughtful UX, and shipped products or credible end-to-end product case studies.

-Proven ability to take a feature or product from an ambiguous problem to a polished, usable solution.

-Strong understanding of mobile UX/UI, interaction design, information architecture, and prototyping.

-Excellent visual instincts and the ability to build distinctive, cohesive digital experiences.

-Experience creating or contributing to design systems and reusable component libraries.

-Proficiency in Figma and the ability to communicate design intent clearly to engineers.

-A strong sense of ownership, curiosity, and comfort working in an early-stage environment.

-The ability to balance business goals, user needs, technical constraints, and visual quality.

*Nice-to-haves

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-Experience working on consumer apps in categories such as social, relationships, lifestyle, wellness, community, or personal finance.

-Experience with brand identity, art direction, illustration, motion, or expressive visual systems.

-Experience designing AI-powered products, conversational interfaces, or personalised recommendation experiences.

-Experience with user research, usability testing, and experimentation.

-Familiarity with accessibility, mobile interaction conventions, and working closely with engineering teams during implementation.

The Kind of Designer Who Will Thrive Here

You might be a great fit if:

-You care as much about how a product feels as how it functions.

-You can make a complex workflow feel effortless and a familiar interaction feel fresh.

-You have strong visual taste and can explain the thinking behind your design decisions.

-You believe technology should make people feel more understood, not more automated.

-You know when to use patterns people recognise and when to challenge convention.

-You enjoy ambiguity, take initiative, and can turn a rough idea into something tangible.

-You care about the small details — the empty state, the reassuring message, the transition, the moment a user feels understood.

-You don't need to be an AI expert or a brand strategist. We do need someone with the curiosity and design judgment to explore these areas thoughtfully.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means:

-Our app feels intuitive, polished, and meaningfully different from conventional dating products.

TDC develops a distinctive visual identity that translates consistently across its digital experiences.

-Our design system enables the product to grow without losing coherence or quality.

-Users feel understood, respected, and confident while navigating a deeply personal service.

-We establish a strong design foundation for future AI-powered matchmaking experiences.

-The team can move faster because design decisions are thoughtful, documented, and easy to implement.

*How to Apply

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Send us:

Your portfolio, especially examples of consumer apps you've designed.

One or two case studies showing how you approached a problem, made design decisions, and arrived at the final experience.

A brief introduction explaining why this role interests you.

Your availability, preferred engagement structure, and expected fee.