Job Description

UX / Product Designer (Contract)

Presidio, CA

Design / Part-Time / Hybrid

Arcade is the world's first AI product marketplace, where everything that can be dreamed of can be made. Our mission is to create magical and social shopping experiences for people everywhere, using unparalleled design-to-manufacturing AI technologies. Arcade enables anyone to design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products with a simple text prompt.

Arcade matches consumers with a community of independent makers who can bring their dreams to life, using the power of AI to enable communication. Arcade aims to redefine commerce by offering unprecedented personal choice, expression, and meaning in product creation. We're using AI to empower anyone to design a product, and feel the profound experience of wearing or using a product that is an expression of their unique vision.

Arcade is led by Mariam Naficy, who has 25+ years of entrepreneurial experience in e-commerce, creator communities, and make-on-demand manufacturing (Eve.com, Minted). Arcade is based in San Francisco and has recently closed a Series A, led by Canaan and co-led by Forerunner. In total, the company has raised $42M in funding, including from Reid Hoffman, Offline Ventures, Sound Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Adverb Ventures. Angel investors include Sol Bier, Christy Turlington Burns, Elad Gil, Colin Kaepernick, Karlie Kloss, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Kelly Wearstler, Jeff Wilke, and Sharon Zhou.

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 similartitle doesn't matter.

We're a startup that moves incredibly fastwe'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 applicationalways 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 productwhen you're working with us, you're a member of our team!

Qualifications

• Mid / Senior level of experience
• You're very confident working in Figmawith 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.

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