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# Global Operations Intern at Arcade

- **Company:** Arcade
- **Location:** Presidio, CA
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arcade-ai/2ca727b7-38c6-4bd7-9cdf-68483fb49b7d

## Job description

Arcade is building the world’s first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality. Our platform lets anyone design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products using natural language and generative AI. We believe everyone should have the power to create physical goods as easily as they post online, and we’re building the infrastructure to make that real for both consumers and businesses.

We’ve raised $42M from a world-class group of investors, including Reid Hoffman, Forerunner Ventures (Kirsten Green), Canaan Partners (Laura Chau), Adverb Ventures (April Underwood), Factorial Funds (Sol Bier), Offline Ventures (Brit Morin), Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Inspired Capital (Alexa von Tobel), and Torch Capital (Jonathan Keidan). Our angel investors include Marc Benioff, Elad Gil, Ev Williams, Marissa Mayer, Sara Beykpour, Kayvon Beykpour, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Sharon Zhou, Kelly Wearstler, Karlie Kloss, Colin Kaepernick, Christy Turlington Burns, and Jeff Wilke.

Arcade is headquartered in San Francisco’s Presidio and led by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Minted, Eve), and a mission-driven team from Google, Apple, Stability AI, Glean, NVIDIA, Databricks, LinkedIn, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and more. Arcade’s Chief AI Officer is Varun Jampani, a leading researcher who co-authored Dreambooth and created Stable Diffusion 3.5, among other things. Raghudeep Gadde, Head of Research at Arcade, was formerly a Principal Scientist at Amazon. Together, we’re pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing, and we’re building fast.

Arcade is seeking a college student for the fall semester to start right away and join us through December 18, 2026 as a Global Operations Intern. This role will have a front-row seat in building a supply chain and establishing business processes in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment. You'll work directly with our founding team and see every part of a startup — sourcing, operations, sales, and product — in one role.

## What you'll do

- Manufacturer outreach, identification and research: price out product specs on Alibaba and other sourcing platforms, request samples, and support early product development, competitive research and manufacturer recruiting
- Ground-level supply chain research, RFQs and global artisanal maker and manufacturer onboarding to help us expand manufacturing options for new categories
- Design pricing and margin structures
- Publish content to our site and sales channels
- Join sales calls and support client onboarding for new B2B customers
- Pack and process customer orders and help with quality checks

## Who you are

- Current undergraduate (or recent grad) available to start immediately
- Willing to travel domestically and internationally on behalf of the company
- Highly organized, responsive, and entrepreneurial - going from strategy to execution in one role and comfortable with unglamorous, get-it-done work
- Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable emailing manufacturers and clients as well as meeting virtually with overseas manufacturers outside of normal business hours
- Interest in e-commerce, supply chain, AI, or consumer products a plus

Additional

Competitive compensation

Lunch provided daily

Company events

Arcade is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive team, and to creating a platform where anyone, anywhere, can make something meaningful.

## About Arcade

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arcade is the world’s first AI-powered physical product creation platform, enabling anyone to design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable goods using text or image prompts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (Presidio Terrace) & Singapore, Singapore (dual HQ)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Mariam Naficy (CEO), William Zhuk (Co-Founder & VP, AI)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered e-commerce, marketplace, and on-demand manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers wanting custom products), B2B (creators, influencers, entrepreneurs), and B2B2C (makers/artisans)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To redefine commerce by offering unprecedented personal choice, expression, and meaning in product creation — making it as easy to create physical goods as it is to post online.

## Products & Services
- **Arcade Platform (Core)**: A generative AI marketplace where users describe or upload an image of a product, and the platform instantly generates buyable, manufacturable designs. The AI is trained on individual maker data to match specific styles.
- **Custom Jewelry**: The initial beta category (launched Sept 2024). Users created over 650,000 jewelry designs in the first three months.
- **Custom Home Goods (Rugs)**: Launched March 2025. Users can design custom rugs with full control over color, size, shape, material, fringe, and texture. Rugs are handwoven by a curated network of artisans.
- **Magic Match**: A new feature that lets users upload a photo of their room to have an AI-designed rug generated that complements the room’s colors and style.
- **Creator Program**: Allows influencers and entrepreneurs to design and monetize their own AI-generated product lines without inventory risk. Early adopters include Amber Vittoria, Tim Fu, and Damilola Awoyomi.
- **Maker Network**: A curated global community of independent artisans and manufacturers who hand-make the products in quantities of one.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$42M** (across 2 rounds: $5M Seed + $25M Series A + additional $12M from other rounds/angel investors)
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at **$5.0M** (per LinkedIn/company data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
  - **Lead Investors**: Reid Hoffman (Seed), Brit Morin / Offline Ventures (Seed), Laura Chau / Canaan Partners (Series A), Kirsten Green / Forerunner Ventures (Series A)
  - **Other Investors**: April Underwood (Adverb Ventures), Sol Bier (Factorial Funds), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital)
  - **Angel Investors**: Elad Gil, Ev Williams, Marissa Mayer, Sara Beykpour, Kayvon Beykpour, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Sharon Zhou, Kelly Wearstler, Karlie Kloss, Colin Kaepernick, Christy Turlington Burns, Jeff Wilke
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 650,000 jewelry designs created in first 3 months post-beta
  - Rapid category expansion from jewelry to home goods (rugs) within 6 months
  - Headcount of 28 employees (25% YoY growth)
  - Operating in 5 countries (USA, Azerbaijan, Ireland, Canada, India)
  - LinkedIn followers: 4,622 (74% yearly growth)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI physical product creation**: No direct competitor combines generative AI with on-demand manufacturing for one-off custom goods at this scale.
- **Proprietary AI models**: Trained on individual maker data, ensuring designs are unique to each artisan’s style — not generic AI output.
- **End-to-end infrastructure**: From AI design generation → instant pricing → direct-to-maker pricing → free samples → handcrafted production → global fulfillment. Bridges language and geographic divides between consumers and manufacturers.
- **Founder expertise**: Mariam Naficy is a pioneer of the creator economy (founded Minted, Eve.com) with 25+ years of experience transforming how products are created and sold online.
- **Strong investor syndicate**: World-class backing from top-tier VCs and influential angels provides deep network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Category expansion**: Moving from jewelry → home goods (rugs) → planned expansion into more product categories.
- **AI technology investment**: Continued development of differentiated AI for design generation, personalization, and “Magic Match” room-aware features.
- **Creator economy growth**: Scaling the Creator Program to attract influencers and entrepreneurs to build AI-generated product lines.
- **Marketplace liquidity**: Growing both the consumer demand side and the maker supply side globally.
- **Ending the “null search result”**: Vision to make any product idea instantly realizable, eliminating the gap between what consumers want and what’s available for sale.

## Why Work Here
- **Founding team & mission**: Work directly with serial entrepreneurs (Mariam Naficy) and deep AI/engineering leaders in a fast-moving startup environment.
- **Innovative category**: Pioneering a new intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing — a genuinely novel space.
- **Culture**: Described as fast-paced, high-agency, and collaborative. In-office culture (Presidio Terrace, San Francisco & Singapore offices). Employees work from physical offices.
- **Engineering focus**: Roles include Applied AI Engineer, Product Engineer AI, Agent Engineer, Staff Applied AI Engineer — heavy emphasis on cutting-edge AI/ML.
- **Growth trajectory**: 25% headcount growth YoY, $42M in funding, rapid product launches — strong momentum for career growth.
- **Perks**: Not extensively documented publicly, but typical for well-funded Series A startup in SF.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: In-Office (both SF and Singapore locations). No remote/hybrid flexibility noted.

## Sources
1. [arcade.ai](https://www.arcade.ai/)
2. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/arcade-arcadeai)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcadeinc)
4. [PRNewswire (Series A announcement)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/arcade-first-ever-ai-physical-product-marketplace-raises-25m-series-a-and-expands-into-home-goods-302410603.html)
5. [AI Chopping Block / The Homebase](https://www.thehomebase.ai/companies/arcade)

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