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# Marketing Designer (Contractor) at Arcus

- **Company:** Arcus
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/arcus/am9icG9zdDo_kDnRwbMYVtJ_BaOrsgi4

## Job description

Build the Future of Global Markets

At Arcus, our mission is to empower anyone to build wealth by making investing accessible, affordable, and simple. The team behind Arcus previously built dYdX, helping power over $1.5 trillion in trading volume. Now we're bringing the world's financial markets onchain.

Built in partnership with Robinhood Chain and backed by a direct investment from Robinhood Crypto, Arcus brings crypto, stock tokens, commodities, and perpetual futures into one self-custodied account. Our vision is to build the world's best spot and perpetuals exchange - trusted, accessible, and reliable, with deep liquidity and accurate prices. Every asset, 24/7.

- Experienced team: Google, Meta, Citadel, DRW, IMC Trading, Stripe, Coinbase, and more.
- Leading backers and advisors: Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam, Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, and more.

Join us in shaping the next generation of global financial markets. → [Learn more about working at Arcus](https://dydx.notion.site/Work-at-Arcus-f4e21fec1be78389a6e501f9977d6935)

## OVERVIEW:

We’re looking for a designer who understands financial products, from charts and earnings recaps to order flow and market data, and enjoys turning early ideas into compelling creative. You’ll bring your own perspective, ask thoughtful questions, and help shape the work from concept to execution.

Our product serves two distinct audiences: crypto-native traders who actively share their trades on social, and sophisticated retail traders in markets like Singapore and Dubai who may be new to crypto and compare us to platforms like IBKR. You’ll create work that resonates with each audience, adapting the visual approach while keeping the Arcus brand consistent.

This role sits in Marketing. You’ll partner with Product Marketing on briefs, campaign direction, and launch timing, and with the Head of Social Media on day-to-day content and channel-specific formats. You’ll also collaborate with the product design team to maintain a cohesive visual identity, with your focus on marketing rather than app design.

## WHAT YOU'LL OWN:

- Static and video content for social, campaigns, and community: earnings recaps, market charts, launch creative, product explainers
- Two distinct visual tracks:- Twitter native: leaderboard graphics, performance-style callouts, meme-adjacent trader culture
- Traditional finance fluent: clean data visualization, regulated-brand polish, broker grade or FinTech aesthetic
- Turning rough direction into finished, on-brand assets with minimal back-and-forth
- A lightweight, reusable template system that flexes across both tracks
- Visual consistency with the core product, coordinated with the product design team
- Localized creative for target markets: real layout adaptation, not just translated copy
- Managing external video agencies for major product launch videos: briefing them, reviewing cuts, and giving feedback to keep launch video quality and tone consistent with everything else you're producing in-house

## REQUIREMENTS:

- Has designed for a financial product before: trading platform, fintech, broker, or markets-adjacent; crypto/DeFi experience fine if paired with real trading understanding
- Comfortable working off a rough brief and filling in the rest
- Fast in Figma, comfortable using AI tools to move quicker
- Instinctive sense for what makes a chart or data point shareable
- Can tell the difference between "built for someone who's been liquidated once" and "built for someone who's used a Bloomberg terminal," and knows which one a piece needs

## NICE TO HAVES:

- Designed for a crypto exchange, prediction market, or trading platform specifically
- Designed for a FinTech or regional brokerage (Tiger Brokers, Futu, IBKR-style) serving international retail traders
- Motion/video experience for X, TikTok, YouTube
- Used to daily content cadence, not long production cycles
- Comfortable managing and updating Framer webpages

## NOT A FIT:

- Agency designers who need a full creative brief for every asset
- Consumer brand designers with no trading or fintech exposure
- Anyone who needs formal review cycles instead of fast, informal feedback

Compensation: $10,000–$20,000 USD per month, depending on experience and qualifications. This is a month-to-month contractor role, with scope and monthly hours to be discussed and agreed upon before the engagement begins.

## About Arcus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arcus is a next-generation decentralized exchange (DEX) built by dYdX Labs in partnership with Robinhood Crypto, offering 24/7 spot trading of stock tokens and cross-margined perpetual futures across equities, crypto, commodities, and indices.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup, incubated at dYdX Labs; strategic investment from Robinhood Crypto)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025 (incubated at dYdX Labs; public launch in 2026)
- **Founders**: Eddie Zhang (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Decentralized finance (DeFi), cryptocurrency exchange, tokenized equities trading
- **Target customers**: Retail traders (B2C) and institutional traders via API; available in eligible jurisdictions outside the U.S., U.K., Canada, and other restricted markets
- **Mission**: Democratize access to financial opportunity by merging traditional finance assets with DeFi infrastructure

## Products & Services
- **[Arcus Spot Trading](https://arcus.xyz/)**: 24/7 zero-fee spot trading of 95 Stock Tokens (US equities, indices, commodities) on Robinhood Chain. Self-custodial, backed 1:1 by Robinhood Crypto.
- **[Arcus Perpetuals](https://arcus.xyz/)**: Cross-margined perpetual futures with up to 50x leverage across equities, crypto, commodities, and indices (35+ RWA perps). Currently waitlisted; full launch expected in 2026.
- **[Arcus API](https://arcus.xyz/)**: Unified API for order management, account data, and market feeds – built for speed and clarity, targeting algorithmic and institutional traders.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – strategic investment from Robinhood Crypto (amount undisclosed); platform is live in beta with 95 Stock Tokens and 35 RWA perps
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Robinhood Crypto (strategic investor & partner on Robinhood Chain), dYdX Labs (incubator; board seat held by dYdX founder)
- **Growth Signals**: Built by the team that created dYdX (one of the largest DEXs); lives in beta with spot trading open to all eligible users; perps waitlist opened July 1, 2026; access to Robinhood’s 25 million+ retail user base; any future Arcus token will reserve allocations for the dYdX community

## Competitive Advantages
- **Distribution via Robinhood Chain**: Direct pipeline to 25M+ retail users, combining brokerage-scale UX with DeFi infrastructure
- **First-mover in tokenized equities on DEX**: Offers 24/7 zero-fee spot trading of stock tokens alongside crypto perps – a unique multi-asset offering in DeFi
- **Deep liquidity**: Backed by Robinhood and other top institutional market-makers
- **Self-custodial and 24/7**: Users maintain control of assets and can trade global markets around the clock
- **Proven team**: Core team previously built and scaled dYdX, a major decentralized exchange with 200+ markets and 50+ validators

## Strategic Focus
- Open perpetuals access beyond waitlist and ramp up trading volume
- Launch native Arcus token with community allocation for dYdX holders
- Expand asset listings and leverage offerings
- Strengthen API and infrastructure for institutional traders
- Continue building a community-owned exchange

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “We move fast, but we take care of our people.” Emphasis on ownership, remote work, and impact.
- **Policy**: Remote-friendly with offices in New York, United States (6 open engineering roles as of Aug 2026 – Backend, Frontend, Staff, Mobile, Trading Infrastructure)
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, remote options, opportunity to work on cutting-edge DeFi infrastructure from the team that built dYdX
- **Engineering culture**: High autonomy, modern stack (React Native, blockchain infrastructure), focus on speed and reliability

## Sources
1. [arcus.xyz – Homepage & FAQ](https://arcus.xyz/)
2. [arcus.xyz – Careers page](https://arcus.xyz/careers)
3. [dYdX blog – "A New Arc"](https://www.dydx.xyz/blog/a-new-arc)
4. [Cryptobriefing – "Arcus goes live after year-long development"](https://cryptobriefing.com/arcus-dex-launch-dydx-robinhood/)

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