Role Summary

• Arcades 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.

What You'll Do

• 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

What We're Looking For

• 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

What You Bring

• 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

Bonus

• Experience as a startup founder, in early-stage startups, or in creator platforms and marketplace ecosystems

Additional

• Competitive compensation
• Lunch provided daily
• Company events
• Arcade is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and support