UX / Product Designer (Contract)
Arcade
Product, Design
Presidio, TX, USA
Posted on Jul 9, 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.
Arcade is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, inclusion and equity.
Overview of Role
Arcade is looking to bring on additional design talent to help us reach our very ambitious goals. We have a large slate of work right now for you to help out with, and a successful partnership would see continued work going forward.
What you will do
Arcade seeks a freelance/contract designer who excels at thinking through complex scenarios, wrangling messy business logic, and can confidently express a design to a team of engineers and product folk. You’ll ask the big questions up front that will save the team a lot of time down the line. You’re a product designer or a UX designer, or something similar—title doesn’t matter.
We’re a startup that moves incredibly fast—we’re looking for a designer who is able to digest a product need quickly, and optimize for different things, depending on the project. Across all of your work, you're demonstrating clean, consistent visuals.
You’ll work with our head of design, Alex, but will frequently present work (in various states of completion) to, and collaborate with, a larger segment of the team.
We prefer that this person is able to come into our sunny Presidio, SF office at least 1-2 days a week.
Responsibilities
- Design for the Arcade web application — always accounting for mobile and desktop
- You’ll take on a range of projects, but you’re very comfortable working with complex flows and logic.
- You’ll work with design, product and engineering, to take projects from 0→1, and sometimes from 0.75→1
- You'll review implemented work and give feedback to engineers
- Propose ideas for improving our product—when you're working with us, you're a member of our team!
Qualifications
- Mid / Senior level of experience
- You’re very confident working in Figma—with Autolayout; Familiarity with prototyping features is a plus.
- Able to take a brief / set of requirements and run with it; If something is unclear, you’re quickly asking for clarification or suggesting a solution.
- Very strong communication skills
- Can take feedback from design, product, and engineering, and turn it into next steps.
- A portfolio you’re proud of, showcasing strong UX fundamentals.
- Experience with AI and/or ecommerce is a bonus.
- You’re excited to work with a fast paced team on a very exciting product!
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.