Product Designer
What We Do
We are building the infrastructure that will power every AI application you'll use in the future. The Revolution Needs You.
Why This Is The Opportunity of a Lifetime
Founder-Market Fit: Our CEO previously founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), where he created the first Authentication API for developers. He's done this before, and this time the market is 10x bigger.
Dream Team: We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, Redis, Microsoft, Splunk, ngrok, Google, Airbyte, Disney, and HPE who've built and founded multiple successful developer platforms.
Massive Market: We're building critical infrastructure for the biggest technological shift of our generation. Every AI app will need what we're building.
Backed By The Best: Our investors have backed Databricks, Clickhouse, MongoDB, Perplexity, Cohere, ScaleAI, Confluent, Elastic, and Firebase. They see what we see — this is going to be huge.
Product Design
Product Design's charter at Arcade is simple and hard: every surface where customers meet Arcade is a trust surface. For most of our customers — the AI/ML architects deploying Arcade inside their companies — the Dashboard is the only place they see us today, which is why it's where you start.
Required Skills
3–5 years of product design experience, with at least one role focused on a developer-facing or B2B SaaS product.
Formal title matters less than the work. A portfolio that shows end-to-end product work — research → flows → interaction → visual → shipped pixels, not just static screens.
Strong fluency in Figma. Fast, organized, components and tokens you'd actually want to inherit.
Comfort with technical product spaces. You can read enough about APIs, auth, and agent behavior to design for them — and you ask the right questions when you can't.
Demonstrated ability to run customer research without a dedicated researcher. You've talked to real users, synthesized what you heard, and changed the design because of it.
Strong partnership with engineering. You've shipped real product alongside engineers and made the work better for it.
Opinions on design systems — not just visual consistency, but how tokens, components, and patterns hold up as a team scales.
Comfort with ambiguity — early team, narrow charter that will expand. You make good decisions with incomplete data.
Insatiable desire to ship. Bonus Points:
You've designed for AI, ML, or agent products before — and have opinions about what makes them work.
Prior experience at a developer-tools, API-platform, or infrastructure company (Stripe, Vercel, Supabase, Auth0, Postman, Linear, and the like).
You've shipped or substantially contributed to a design system that survived contact with multiple engineers.
Comfort designing for engineers as your primary user — you understand what makes an admin UI feel right to someone who'd rather be in their terminal.
Prototyping in code, even at a basic level. A designer who can read React and prototype interactions in the actual codebase moves faster than one who can't.
Bonus Points
You've designed for AI, ML, or agent products before — and have opinions about what makes them work.
Prior experience at a developer-tools, API-platform, or infrastructure company (Stripe, Vercel, Supabase, Auth0, Postman, Linear, and the like).
You've shipped or substantially contributed to a design system that survived contact with multiple engineers.
Comfort designing for engineers as your primary user — you understand what makes an admin UI feel right to someone who'd rather be in their terminal.
Prototyping in code, even at a basic level. A designer who can read React and prototype interactions in the actual codebase moves faster than one who can't.
Compensation And Benefits
This role offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits. Compensation is aligned with the range below and determined based on a candidate's background, experience, and performance.
Salary Range $127,000-$172,000 USD
Notes: This is an in-person role located in our San Francisco (SOMA) office.