The Role
As an Associate Product Manager at Arcade, you'll own product workflows from ideation to launch in AI-based consumer experience, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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About Arcade
Arcade is building the world’s first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality. Our platform lets anyone design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products using natural language and generative AI. We believe everyone should have the power to create physical goods as easily as they post online, and we’re building the infrastructure to make that real.
We’ve raised $42M from a world-class group of investors, including Reid Hoffman, Forerunner Ventures (Kirsten Green), Canaan Partners (Laura Chau), Adverb Ventures (April Underwood), Factorial Funds (Sol Bier), Offline Ventures (Brit Morin), Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Inspired Capital (Alexa von Tobel), and Torch Capital (Jonathan Keidan). Our angel investors include Elad Gil, Ev Williams, Marissa Mayer, Sara Beykpour, Kayvon Beykpour, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Sharon Zhou, Kelly Wearstler, Karlie Kloss, Colin Kaepernick, Christy Turlington Burns, and Jeff Wilke.
Arcade is headquartered in San Francisco’s Presidio and led by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Minted, Eve), and a founding team with deep experience in generative AI, design systems, and supply chain. We’re pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing, and we’re building fast.
Role Summary
Arcade’s inaugural Associate Product Manager (APM) program is designed for individuals with extraordinary talent and ambition who want to build at the frontier of AI and consumer experience. As an APM, you will be embedded deeply within our product team and work alongside leadership, engineers, designers, and AI researchers to launch category-defining experiences.
APMs at Arcade will own critical products from day one, prototyping novel workflows, defining product strategy, and driving cross-functional execution at the speed of a high-velocity early-stage startup.
Apply now through August 20, 2025. Successful candidates will start on a mutually-agreed upon date between August and December 2025.
What You'll Do
- Design and launch work that has real-world impact, cultural visibility, and end-to-end ownership, shaping an entirely new consumer category and product paradigm
- Own end-to-end product workflows, from ideation to launch, including user research, technical scoping, and post-launch iteration
- Collaborate closely with engineers, AI researchers, and designers to integrate cutting-edge models and tools into intuitive, production-ready features
- Design and test agentic workflows, LLM chains, and multimodal model calls to power core user actions
- Run prompt tuning, tool usage evaluations, and comparative model benchmarksPrototype, test, and refine generative AI interfaces that make product creation feel magical, personal, and effortless
What We're Looking For
- Arcade APMs are individuals who have accomplished remarkable things, want to immerse themselves fully in AI product development, and possess an unrivaled work ethic.
- Unconventional and extraordinary talent proven in AI, engineering, design, startups, research, or unexpected fields like sports, arts, etc.
- Technically fluent builders comfortable reading source code, working in notebooks, and debugging eval pipelines
- Agents and LLM tinkerers with experience building agentic workflows in personal, research, or production settings
- Deeply curious AI thinkers especially across LLMs, diffusion models, vector search, tool use, and prompt evaluation
- Clear thinkers and communicators who bring structure to ambiguity and can engage engineers, researchers, and designers alike
- High-agency operators who move fast, take ownership, and bias toward impact
- Tasteful, low-ego teammates who bring humility, energy, and judgment to every interaction
We're looking for:
What You Bring
- A background in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field
- Experience building or shipping products: personal projects, internships, startups, or open-source contributions all count
- Familiarity with modern AI systems and infrastructure: LLMs, multimodal models, vector databases, or agent frameworks
- A strong product sense and attention to user experience: you care deeply about making products that feel magical and intuitive
- Clear thinking, fast learning, and a deep curiosity about the future of design, manufacturing, and creativity
- Bonus: experience as a startup founder, in early-stage startups, or in creator platforms and marketplace ecosystems
Additional
Competitive compensation
Lunch provided daily
Company events
Arcade is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive team, and to creating a platform where anyone, anywhere, can make something meaningful.
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The Company
What We Do
Arcade is the world’s first AI product creation platform, enabling anyone to design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products with a simple text or image prompt. Co-founded by Mariam Naficy, Arcade brings together the power of generative AI with a global network of top artisans to turn user ideas into personalized, physical products in a quantity of one. Arcade aims to redefine commerce by offering unprecedented personal choice, expression, and meaning in product creation.
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