Product Manager

About the role

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 for both consumers and businesses.

Role Summary

The Product Manager role is intended for an individual with extraordinary talent and ambition who wants to build the future of design and commerce AI and who demonstrates founder-mode ownership. You will report directly to our Co-Founder & CEO, Mariam Naficy, and work alongside our engineers, designers, and AI researchers to launch category-defining experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Design and launch work that has real-world impact, cultural visibility, and end-to-end ownership, shaping an entirely new 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
• Prototype, test, and refine innovative product experiences that make creation feel intuitive, personalized, and effortless
• Work closely with engineers in model fine-turning, including data strategy, experiment design and evals
• Implement taste/quality controls, define acceptance thresholds, and instrument on-surface quality metrics to protect user trust at scale

What We’re Looking For

• Extraordinary talent proven in engineering, design, startups, research, or creative fields
• Clear thinker and communicator who brings structure to ambiguity and speak the language of engineers, researchers, and designers alike
• High-agency operator who moves fast, takes ownership, and has bias toward impact
• Tasteful, low-ego teammate who brings humility, energy, and judgment to every interaction
• Strong opinions loosely held – unafraid to speak your mind, but receptive to new ideas and changing priors
• You think beyond execution, and prioritize the most urgent, product-defining problems
• Growth mindset – embraces continuous learning, adapts quickly to new information, and regularly challenges assumptions to improve outcomes
• A strong product sense and attention to user experience: you care deeply about making products that feel magical, manufacturable, and intuitive

Qualifications

• Availability to start in the near term
• A Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or other STEM degree
• Experience building agentic workflows in personal, research, or production settings
• Techfluently builder comfortable reading source code, working in notebooks, and debugging eval pipelines
• Demonstrated passion and curiosity for emerging technologies: stays current on industry trends, new innovations, and evolving applications, while thinking critically about how to apply them effectively
• Experience building or shipping products: personal projects, internships, startups, or open-source contributions all count
• Strong familiarity with modern technology platforms and tooling, including emerging software ecosystems, data systems, automation frameworks, and the practical considerations involved in deploying and scaling new technologies

Bonus

• Early-stage startup experience (Seed–Series B), prior founding experience, or significant shipped side projects

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