Associate Product Manager

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.

• 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

• 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

• A background in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field
• Must be available to start sometime between January and August 2026
• 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

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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.