Founding Product Designer at arcway.ai (Headquarters)
arcway.ai· Headquarters· $150k–$200k·
Role details
Job description
Arcway is building the AI-native 3D design platform for homebuilding.
We turn floor plans into interactive 3D worlds. Buyers can walk the home, move walls, swap materials, and see everything update instantly. Light, physics, building rules, and real products all move together.
Our goal is simple. Create the interface for the built world.
We have paying enterprise customers, strong investors, and real traction. Now we’re hiring our Founding Product Designer.
The role
We need a designer who thinks in motion and space.
This is not a SaaS dashboard. It is closer to designing interaction for a game engine than a web app.
You will design experiences where users make hundreds of meaningful decisions without feeling overwhelmed.
You will own:
- Buyer experience: Orbiting, walking, configuring layouts, comparing options, feeling the space.
- Builder experience: Managing options, constraints, pricing logic, and the systems that power the world model underneath.
This is foundational. You will shape how this product feels.
What you’ll do
- Design real-time layout tools where geometry updates instantly
- Build spatial UI systems for navigation and comparison
- Create progressive disclosure inside a 3D environment
- Define interaction patterns for orbit, walk, inspect, zoom
- Work side-by-side with engineering to ship high-performance experiences
What we’re looking for
- Strong product fundamentals
- Experience designing complex interaction flows
- Bonus if you’ve worked in 3D, gaming, Unreal, motion, or interactive systems
- Intuition for spatial hierarchy and pacing
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
You know how to guide someone through 200 decisions without overwhelming them.
You care about craft.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity
- Health, dental, vision
- Flexible work environment
- Vacation stipend
Arcway is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
If you want to help define how people design the physical world, let’s talk.
Why work at arcway.ai
- Early-stage ownership: "We're early, and the surface area is large" — early hires get meaningful ownership over core parts of the system, working directly with co-founders at a fast-paced startup (arcway.ai/about-us, builtinsf.com)
- Ambition & technical depth: The stated mission is building "the Unreal Engine for real life" — a system where structured data, real-time 3D, and AI converge into a product used in high-stakes moments (home purchases) (arcway.ai/about-us)
- Team caliber: Small team of ex-architects and product builders from Figma, Coinbase, Xsolla, and Modern Health — designers/builders with product-market-fit experience (builtinsf.com)
- Flexibility & compensation: Remote or hybrid hiring in Berkeley, CA; competitive salary, meaningful equity, hybrid flexibility, and an employee benefits package (accessible via their public benefits page) (builtinsf.com)
- Hard, non-obvious problems: The work involves highly variable builder documents, contradictions, and missing data — interesting for people who "like hard problems where the right answer isn't obvious" (arcway.ai/about-us, builtinsf.com)