Staff Plus Product Designer, Arc
$160-190k
Offers Equity
Financing for SaaS startups
Open for applications
Financing for SaaS startups
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$160-190k
Offers Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide a better way for software startups to raise capital without incurring costly dilution and risky debt.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to make informed design decisions and articulate them simply
- Have experience designing and shipping a web/app product for a variety of devices and platforms
- 7+ years designing and shipping software
- Understand when less design is the better design
- Have a strong design aesthetic
- Understand the trade-offs between speed and quality as it applies to your designs
Desirable
- Experience working in a startup environment
- Experience working in fintech
- Experience building design systems
- Experience prototyping with Framer, Principle, or similar
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff or Principal Product Designer to join the Arc team
- Very open on leveling, from early career - senior
- You will work directly alongside the founding team to help Arc reinvent startup financing through tech
- Lead design and user experience for significant parts of our product; contribute to the design process from prioritization through launch
- Help define product requirements and design features in accordance with our roadmap
- Craft high-fidelity visuals, prototypes, and specifications for your final design solutions
- Participate in design reviews to share your work regularly with the design and company leadership
- Work with Engineering to ensure quality implementation and user experience
- The ability to define and deliver design solutions that are both simple and powerful
Our take
One of the most exciting and crucial elements of the startup journey is securing financing, often through Venture Capital funding, which allows businesses to scale. However, startups typically face the trade-off of giving up ownership in exchange for capital.
Arc is hailing itself as the future of startup financing by offering debt funding and digital banking services specifically tailored to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startups. Instead of giving up equity, users can borrow against their forecasted future earnings, allowing them to retain full ownership of their companies.
It's proving popular too, with Arc boasting over 4k new users in 2023. Along with the company's partnership with Stripe bolstering its reputation, and its focus on the growing SaaS industry positioning it for continued success in a rapidly expanding market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
95% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$11m
SEED
Total funding: $31m
Company benefits
- Meaningful Impact: As an early employee, you'll influence key strategic decisions, shape the culture, and play a major role in our success. We are flat and lean, so you'll have the opportunity to contribute to every facet of the business
- Coverage Where it Counts: You'll have access to best-in-class medical, dental, and vision coverage and a monthly health and wellness stipend from day one. Mental health resources, learning and development stipends, and more coming soon
- Rest and Recharge: We all perform our best when we feel our best, that's why all Arc-itects receive unlimited PTO, paid holidays, flexible remote work options, and paid parental leave
- Inclusivity at our Core: We currently provide dedicated funding for our affinity-groups and their hosted-events, and we offer bi-weekly volunteering opportunities. We plan to partner with local organizations and build out our site of employee perks and benefits as we develop and mature as an organization
- Commitment to the Community: We recently took the Conscious Culture Pledge. Being a conscious company means that we consciously take action to foster an inclusive and diverse workplace. It starts with our hiring practices, and continues throughout our evolving benefits package
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Don Muir
(Co-Founder & CEO)Began their career as a Management Consultant for Boston Consulting Group, before entering Private Equity for Onex and Apollo Global Management.
Raven Jiang
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Founding Engineer at Affinity, Inc., and Ubiquity6 Inc. (acquired by Discord). Also worked for Tesla as an Autopilot Software Engineer, then joined Facebook as a Front End Engineer.
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