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# Member of Design Staff - Product at Arena Intelligence, Inc.

- **Company:** Arena Intelligence, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arena/ff1d3a91-273a-44a5-a24d-6caf3e1cb505

## Job description

## About Arena Intelligence

Arena is the platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's SkyLab, we're on a mission to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use, and to build the foundation for everyone to understand, shape, and benefit from it.

Tens of millions of people use Arena each month to evaluate how frontier systems handle the work they actually do. The preferences they share power the most transparent, rigorous, and human-centered evaluations in AI. Leading AI labs, enterprises, and independent researchers rely on our work and open datasets to understand how models behave in real workflows: agentic coding, creative generation, professional productivity, and beyond. We go beyond leaderboards and decompose what human experience reveals about AI, so models advance toward the work people actually do.

We're a team of researchers, academics, builders, and creatives from UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, and DeepMind. We seek truth, move fast, and value craftsmanship, curiosity, and impact over hierarchy. We're building a company where thoughtful, curious people from all backgrounds can do their best work together, in an office culture that radiates excellence, energy, and focus. The Role: Arena is seeking an experienced Product Designer to help craft beautiful, intuitive product experiences for our growing community of users. In this role you will own the end-to-end design of new products and features that are on the bleeding-edge of AI innovation. You will partner closely with engineering, product and research to explore, prototype, iterate, test and ship products and features on our platform. This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable with ambiguity, has a track record of simplifying complexity, enjoys building products 0-1 and wants to shape the future of how people interact with and evaluate AI.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the end-to-end design process of new features and products.
- This means everything from prototyping new ideas, to writing proposals and specs, to working with engineering on scope and implementation, to tracking feedback and data, to iterating post-launch.
- Deeply understand our HXC (High Expectation Customer), why they love our product and how they use it.
- Understand business goals and user needs with a strong point of view on how we can meaningfully make their experience better and grow our business.
- Stay up to date on user feedback and analytics, spot trends and use insights to prioritize work and improve the product.
- Help develop and expand our design system to ensure consistency and quality across all product surfaces.
- Influence the culture and processes of the design team and drive product vision.

Requirements:

- At least 5 years of Product Design experience working on a consumer or developer facing application with a portfolio showcasing:
- Visual Design - a very high level of visual design craft, attention to detail and ability to surprise and delight users.
- Product Experience - history of shipping features for consumer-facing products, ideally building 0-1 products or working at or with early stage startups.
- Impact - track record of making informed, thoughtful design decisions that had a measurable impact on the product’s success.
- Ability to make appropriate tradeoffs between short term and long term goals, informed by business and/or user needs.
- Strong interaction, visual and design system skillset:
- Very strong proficiency in Figma (obviously)
- Prototyping tool of your choice, doesn't matter what it is as long as you use it well.
- Prototype-first mindset. You build prototypes and test them to inform your design decisions.
- Must be comfortable with ambiguity and simplifying complex ideas.
- Strong writing skills. You feel comfortable writing a PRD or making edits/changes to one. You have strong visual, verbal and written storytelling skills.

## What we offer

- We offer competitive compensation and equity aligned to the markets where our team members are based. The base salary range will depend on the candidate’s permanent work location.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and additional support programs.
- The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team
- A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact

Come help build the space where anyone can explore and help shape the future of AI.

Arena Intelligence provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

## About Arena Intelligence, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arena Intelligence, Inc. (formerly LMArena/Chatbot Arena) operates a public, community-driven platform for evaluating large language models through anonymous head-to-head comparisons and voting.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, total $250M funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025 (company incorporation; platform launched April 2023)
- **Founders**: Wei-Lin Chiang, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Ion Stoica

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI evaluation and research infrastructure
- **Target customers**: AI labs (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, DeepSeek), enterprises, researchers, and the general AI community (B2B and B2C)
- **Mission**: Fuel the world’s most trusted AI evaluation platform, using real-world community votes to benchmark model performance

## Products & Services
- **LMArena Platform**: Public web-based platform where users enter prompts for two anonymous models, vote on the better response, and then see the models’ identities. Supports text, vision, web dev, search, video, and image modalities. Over 50 million votes collected.
- **Max (Model Router)**: An intelligent orchestrator that routes each user prompt to the most capable model for that specific prompt, powered by 5+ million real-world votes.
- **Enterprise Evaluation Product**: Launched September 2025, provides rigorous, reproducible evaluations for AI labs and enterprises, generating actionable feedback on model performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $100M annualized revenue run rate as of June 2026 (achieved within 8 months of enterprise offering launch)
- **Total Funding**: $250M (Seed $100M led by Andreessen Horowitz and UC Investments in June 2025; Series A $150M led by Felicis and UC Investments in January 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Felicis, UC Investments, Andreessen Horowitz, The House Fund, LDVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Laude Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Community grew 25x in one year; 50 million votes, 400+ model evaluations, 145k open-source battle data points; operates in 5 countries (US, Germany, UK, UAE, Canada); headcount of 49 with +10.5% monthly growth

## Competitive Advantages
- **Community-driven data**: Trusted by major AI labs for real-world, reproducible evaluations; 10M+ community members contribute diverse prompts and votes
- **First-mover & brand**: The de facto public leaderboard for LLM comparison; used for pre-release model testing (e.g., DeepSeek R1, GPT-5 "summit", Gemini 2.5 Flash Image "Nano Banana")
- **Open science**: Academic partnerships program funding independent research on AI evaluation methodology
- **Revenue velocity**: Achieved $100M ARR in under a year from enterprise launch, indicating strong product-market fit

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform with new features and modalities (video, search, web dev)
- Deepen enterprise offerings and model routing capabilities (Max)
- Expand academic partnerships to advance the science of AI evaluation
- Continue to serve as the gold standard for real-world model performance benchmarking

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, research-driven startup with roots at UC Berkeley; emphasis on community, open source, and rigorous science
- **Team**: 49 employees, 41% technical (Data Engineers, ML Scientists, ML Engineers, Software Engineers), with talent from top AI labs and universities (Berkeley RISE Lab, Google, Apple)
- **Growth**: High-growth environment (revenue run rate doubled rapidly, headcount growing ~10% monthly)
- **Location**: Headquarters in San Francisco (2261 Market St., Ste 85064); offices also in SF (two additional locations). Likely hybrid/office-based given SF HQ and local employee concentration.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but typical for VC-backed startup (equity, competitive comp, impact on foundational AI infrastructure)

## Sources
1. [arena.ai](https://arena.ai/)
2. [arena.ai/blog/series-a](https://arena.ai/blog/series-a/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/arenaai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arenaai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/arena](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arena)

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