Founding Launch Designer

About the Position

Founding Launch Designer

Are you ready to announce the moments that define a new era of intelligence? Join Arcada Labs Incorporated as a Founding Launch Designer and be part of the team that shapes the future of AI by creating impactful brand narratives and launch videos.

Location

• City: San Francisco
• Country: United States

Employment Type

• Type: Full-time
• Work Location: On-site

About the Role

At Arcada Labs, we are building the world stage for AI. We create arenas-real products, scaled to millions of users-that measure what models can actually do in the real world. We are among the first to know the significance of their availability, and we need someone to own how these moments reach the world.

Why This Role?

• Announce AI Capabilities: You'd announce what AI can do before anyone else. We work with model providers to benchmark unreleased capabilities. You'd craft the grand reveal for abilities the world hasn't seen yet and frame how people understand them.
• Design Brands: You'd design brands that people identify with breakthroughs. Each arena we launch needs its own identity, motion language, and narrative arc. You'd create this system of brands and then ship to every channel and surface.
• Work at AI's Pace: New models drop every week. New arenas every month. We need someone who can go from concept to brand to shipped video in days, not quarters, without sacrificing craft.
• Shape Taste at the Frontier: The visual language for AI is still being invented. You would tackle both the aesthetic and the emotional impact of this new frontier.
• Join a Rare Moment: Our team of five built products used by over a million. We're small, technical, and obsessive. We move fast because this is our chance to define the way AI capability is measured.

Responsibilities

• Own Launch Videos End-to-End: Script, storyboard, direct, edit. Product demos, cinematic reveals, 15-second hooks, long-form explainers.
• Build Brand Systems for New Arenas: Each product gets its own visual identity (logo, type, color) that belongs to Arcada but stands on its own.
• Own Mindshare and Distribution: Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram. You’d know that the same announcement needs a different cut, hook, and thumbnail for each.
• Create Creative Systems that Compound: Launch is just the beginning. You'd build the templates, formats, and loops that let us keep shipping at quality without reinventing everything each time.

Requirements

• Experience: You ship video and brand work that make people take notice. Portfolio matters. Way more than pedigree. Show us launches you've owned, brands you've built, work that moved metrics or, more importantly, people.
• Skills:
  • Core: Video production, brand strategy, launch management, visual storytelling
  • Secondary: Motion design, social media strategy, creative systems
• Attributes: You can toggle masterfully between strategy and execution. You're as comfortable debating narrative arc as you are cutting footage at 2am before a launch. You actually care about speed and quality.

We Offer

• Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity. We're early. You'd be joining when ownership matters most.
• Creative Bar: We want our launches to feel like watching Michael Phelps qualify for the Olympics, or Demis Hassabis think his way to a new future.
• Budget: You would have all the necessary resources to do your life’s work.

Why Arcada Matters

The next few years will determine which AI models the world trusts, deploys, and builds on. Someone has to set the standard for what “capable" means in practice, not in theory. Early access to tomorrow’s models is a responsibility and a privilege. Our benchmarks and narratives steer understanding and investment. What gets measured gets built-so we’re building and scaling arenas across every skill that matters.

Two arenas launched, dozens more to go. Ours is the infrastructure for understanding machine intelligence.

If you want to be at the center of that, and you want to make sure the world sees it clearly, apply below.

What to Send

Your best 2-3 pieces of work. Launches, brand systems, videos-whatever shows how you think and what you ship. Include a short note on why you’d like to join our team.