--- title: 'Founding Product Designer at arcway.ai' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-designer-arcway-ai-headquarters-re4b5r7rxvgm' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Founding Product Designer at arcway.ai - **Company:** arcway.ai - **Location:** Headquarters - **Compensation:** $150k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-03-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/arcway-ai/am9icG9zdDq95qneiS8pmEGJbiV84njV ## 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. ## About arcway.ai ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Arcway is a 3D decision platform for production homebuilders, letting buyers walk through photorealistic homes and see exactly how every layout or finish change affects the final price in real time — from first click to signed contract. - **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage startup, venture-backed) - **Headquarters**: Berkeley, CA, USA (hiring remote/hybrid) - **Founded**: Not publicly available (appears to be early-stage; founded within the last few years based on funding and hiring signals) - **Founders**: Names not publicly disclosed in available sources; the team is described as "a small team of ex-architects and product builders from Figma, Coinbase, Xsolla and Modern Health" ([builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: PropTech / Construction Technology (homebuilding), 3D visualization, applied AI - **Target customers**: B2B — production homebuilders (operating across divisions/regions such as NorCal, SoCal, Arizona, and the Pacific Northwest) - **Mission**: Turn homes into interactive, decision-ready experiences — "Playable commerce": environments you can move through, customize, and decide on in real time. The company describes its ambition as "building the Unreal Engine for real life" ([arcway.ai/about-us](https://arcway.ai/about-us)) ## Products & Services - **Arcway Platform (3D home buying experience)**: Photorealistic 3D walkthroughs of home plans, real-time options configuration (countertops, flooring, cabinets, fixtures, appliances), and instant price updates as buyers make changes. Buyers can save their build, return on any device, and share it with partners; sales reps and buyers can navigate the same space collaboratively from anywhere ([arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/), [arcway.ai/product](https://arcway.ai/product)) - **No-Code Admin Portal**: Ops teams manage the full product/SKU catalog — update pricing, retire SKUs, launch new options, and gate options by division — without touching engineering ([arcway.ai/product](https://arcway.ai/product)) - **Analytics & Revenue Intelligence**: Closes, upgrade mix, and time-to-decision analytics designed to drive revenue; the company claims most builders recover setup cost within 1–2 additional deals per month ([arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/)) - **Integrations**: Plugs into BIM/design tools (AutoCAD, Revit, PDFs), ERP/construction management (Procore, Buildertrend, Envision, Homebuilder One), and CRMs (HubSpot, Lasso CRM, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio) ([arcway.ai/product](https://arcway.ai/product)) - **White-Label Deployment**: Custom-branded experience hosted at yourbrand.arcway.ai — buyers never see Arcway, only the builder's brand ([arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/)) ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; backed by top-tier angel/seed investors - **Notable Investors**: Indie, Ritual, Soleio, Jorn + Koen, and other top angels ([builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) - **Growth Signals**: - Hiring for a **Founding ML/AI Engineer** — a strong signal of early-stage scaling and ambitious technical roadmap ([builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcway-ai)) - Positioned as replacing both render vendors and 3D-tour subscriptions with one controlled platform — targeting an outdated, fragmented market ("Production builders are still selling homes the way they were sold in 1995") ([arcway.ai/product](https://arcway.ai/product)) - Pilot-first go-to-market: first plan live in 2 weeks, with a playbook for scaling across divisions ([arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/)) - Multi-region capability already built in (NorCal, SoCal, Arizona, Pacific Northwest) ([arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/)) ## Competitive Advantages - **Physics-grounded, not just visual**: Systems are trained on architectural data, real products, and physical rules — dimensions, materials, and structure are built into the platform, so every experience reflects what can actually be built ([arcway.ai/about-us](https://arcway.ai/about-us)) - **End-to-end replacement**: Consolidates render vendors, 3D-tour subscriptions, and static brochures into a single platform the builder controls ([arcway.ai/product](https://arcway.ai/product)) - **Real-time pricing tied to options**: Buyers see exactly how a layout or finish change affects the final price before committing — bridging marketing and sales in a way static renders cannot - **Fast, low-risk deployment**: First plan live in 2 weeks; builders can pilot with one division before committing to platform-wide rollout ([arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/)) - **No-code, ops-owned tooling**: Product catalogs, pricing, and SKU lifecycle are managed by builder operations staff, not engineers ([arcway.ai/product](https://arcway.ai/product)) - **Built for high-stakes decisions**: The company explicitly positions against "inspiration" use cases — this is a decision tool used in actual home purchases ([arcway.ai/about-us](https://arcway.ai/about-us)) ## Strategic Focus - **AI on real-world constraints**: Building ML systems that ingest unstructured design files (CAD/PDFs) and convert them into production-ready 3D homes — eliminating slow, error-prone manual processes that require architectural intuition ([builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) - **Automating staging and asset generation**: Matching SKU data from customers and creating performant, game-ready 3D assets from internal libraries, manufacturer datasets, or generative pipelines ([builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) - **Scaling from pilot to platform**: Proven ROI on a handful of plans, then scaling with a playbook builders trust ([arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/)) - **Expanding the "Playable commerce" layer**: Growing a new category between people and the spaces they're buying — built for understanding, comparison, and real-time decision-making ([arcway.ai/about-us](https://arcway.ai/about-us)) ## Why Work Here - **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](https://arcway.ai/about-us), [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) - **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](https://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](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) - **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](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) - **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](https://arcway.ai/about-us), [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer/7945490)) ## Sources 1. [arcway.ai](https://arcway.ai/) 2. [arcway.ai — About Us](https://arcway.ai/about-us) 3. [arcway.ai — Product](https://arcway.ai/product) 4. 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