Full-Time
Associate Product Manager
Product Team
Posted on 7/29/2025
Arcade Studio
11-50 employees
Generative AI marketplace for custom products
No salary listed
South Bay, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 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
- 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
- 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 benchmarks
- Prototype, test, and refine generative AI interfaces that make product creation feel magical, personal, and effortless
- Experience as a startup founder, in early-stage startups, or in creator platforms and marketplace ecosystems
Arcade Studio runs a marketplace where dreamers design custom physical products with generative AI and makers manufacture them through a vetted global network. Dreamers submit prompts; the AI selects materials, picks a maker, and sets a price. The platform takes a percentage of each sale and offers an entrepreneur program for creators to launch product lines without inventory or logistics. Starting with jewelry and expanding to home goods, features like Magic Match generate designs from room photos to match spaces.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$25M
Headquarters
Cape Town, South Africa
Founded
2017
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $25M Series A in March 2025 from Canaan and Forerunner totals $42M funding.
- Beta generated 650,000 jewelry designs in first three months since September 2024.
- Expands from jewelry to rugs, ceramics, cushions with direct-to-maker pricing.
What critics are saying
- Etsy launches AI tools in Q1 2026, capturing 70% personalized searches.
- Artisans defect to Shopify's 2025 plugin offering 30% higher margins.
- Midjourney partners Printful in April 2026, replicating Magic Match faster.
What makes Arcade Studio unique
- Mariam Naficy co-founded Arcade, leveraging Minted's creator marketplace expertise.
- AI analyzes text prompts to select materials and pair with global artisans.
- Magic Match generates room-complementing rug designs from uploaded photos.
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Benefits
Hybrid Work Options
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -21%1 year growth
↓ -21%2 year growth
↓ -21%Arcade, an AI-driven marketplace, raised a $25M Series A from Canaan Partners and Forerunner Ventures, totaling $42M in funding. The company expanded from jewelry to home goods, launching custom-made rugs using AI for design. Users can create personalized designs with the "Magic Match" feature. Arcade's platform empowers consumers to co-create products, offering direct-to-maker pricing and customization. The funding supports further category expansion and AI technology investment.
Arcade, founded by Mariam Naficy, has secured $42 million in funding from investors like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The platform combines generative AI with physical manufacturing, allowing users to design custom jewelry and home decor by inputting text or images. Arcade's AI generates 3D design sketches, which are then crafted by artisans. The platform supports various jewelry types and materials, with prices starting at $100. Arcade plans to expand into ceramics, cushions, and potentially clothing.
To propel this expansion and further platform development, Arcade has announced a successful $25 million Series A funding round.
Arcade, a generative AI marketplace for designing jewelry, is expanding its offerings to include home goods, starting with rugs. The company on Monday Arcade, a generative AI marketplace for designing jewelry, is expanding into home goods, starting with rugs.