New Category Product Manager
Arcade
Product
Presidio, TX, USA
Posted on May 11, 2025
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:
To become the destination marketplace for people to “turn your thoughts into things”, we must have broad category coverage and liquidity. Arcade will constantly redefine and expand the possibilities of what can be co-created with AI and makers. The New Category Product Manager is responsible for partnering with cross-functional teams to define and execute on new product verticals for the company.
This role will partner closely with the senior leadership team, supply chain, merchandising, and marketing to understand consumer demand and category requirements. The role will collaborate with UX and engineering teams to bring the category to life.
An ideal profile for this role is entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, positive, and adept at driving cross-functional workstreams. An ideal candidate has prior PM and/or e-commerce experience and is ready to build a category-defining company surrounded by superb peers and interacting with iconic investors.
The role requires working in our sunny Presidio, SF office 4 days/week.
Responsibilities
- Define new category strategy with the company’s senior leadership team, aligning overall Arcade business goals and customer needs
- Build and manage comprehensive new category roll out roadmap and priorities
- Design and implement a scalable and repeatable framework for category launches, including operational processes and software tooling
- Partner with category managers and supply chain team to define technology and AI category requirements unique to each category
- Define differentiated value propositions in each category and associated Arcade product requirements
- Drive implementation of roadmap through partnering with designers to craft smooth user experiences and engineering teams to move concepts quickly to market
- Partner with marketing team to craft resonate consumer facing messaging and channel strategies
- Set aggressive timeline and ensure disciplined execution to achieve Arcade’s ambitious category goals
Qualifications
- 4+ years of product management experience in a high growth environment or a general management role for an e-commerce category or brand
- Exceptional project management skills with demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional initiatives with high interdependencies
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills
- Ability to translate ambiguity into structured action plans and rally teams around implementation of plan
- High curiosity in learning about new product categories and production processes
- Strong collaborator and communicator
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Arcade is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and will consider all qualified applicants for employment in accordance with all state, local, and federal laws.