Senior Product Designer

Arketa; New York (NY); Híbrido; USD 165.000 - 185.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Arketa is building the operating system for modern fitness and wellness. We seek a Senior Product Designer who will shape multiple features and surfaces, owning the design system and driving AI-assisted prototyping to move from ideas to working concepts.

The role is hybrid with three days in our NoHo NYC office, collaborating closely with Product and Engineering to deliver world-class experiences for studios and wellness entrepreneurs.

Formación

• Approximately 5+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio.
• Strong design-driven approach and user-centered thinking.
• Experience turning business goals into usable interfaces with data and user research.
• Proficiency in design tools and collaboration across teams.

Responsabilidades

• Design across many surfaces and features, influencing the product beyond pixels.
• Own and evolve the design system to be cohesive, scalable, and visually strong.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to define and implement features.
• Lead wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
• Prototype quickly with AI tools like Claude to test ideas.

Conocimientos

Product design

UX design

Figma

AI prototyping

Design systems

Herramientas

Figma

Descripción del empleo

At Arketa, we believe software should be more intelligent, more intuitive, and truly support the people using it. The fitness and wellness industry has been underserved by technology for too long, and we're here to change that.

We're building the operating system for modern fitness and wellness businesses. Products that don’t just look good, but actually help studio owners and instructors grow their community, increase revenue, and deliver world-class client experiences. That means sweating the details, questioning assumptions, and delivering tools that are as powerful behind the scenes as they are seamless for the end user.

Great products come from fast-moving, aligned teams with clear focus and high standards. At Arketa, we invest in our people, our processes, and our product foundations. That way, we can move quickly and build with care week after week and year after year.

Whether you're an engineer, operator, or customer advocate, you'll be part of a team pushing wellness forward and doing the best work of your career.

Senior Product Designer

Location

New York City

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Compensation

About Arketa

Arketa is building the operating system for modern fitness and wellness. Our mission is to make wellness more accessible by empowering studios and wellness entrepreneurs to grow beyond in-person classes. We provide a powerful, all-in-one platform to manage and scale hybrid wellness businesses, whether online, in-person, or both.

With Arketa, studios can manage schedules, accept bookings and payments, build on-demand video libraries, host retreats, run automated marketing, and launch fully branded apps and websites. We make it simple for founders to deliver a seamless, professional experience across every customer touchpoint. We've raised $15M in Series A funding and are growing quickly. It's a unique moment to join us. We're building a category-defining company in a fast-moving space, and we're looking for a leader who is excited to help shape what world-class partner support looks like in the wellness category.

About the Role

Arketa is seeking a talented and motivated Product Designer who is a self-starter. This is a broad, cross-project role rather than a seat inside a single pod. You'll work across many features and surfaces, which means your influence on the product is wide by design.

You'll also take ownership of our design system. We have one, but it hasn't been given the attention it deserves. We're looking for someone who sees that as an opportunity rather than a chore, and who wants to turn it into something both rigorous and genuinely good-looking.

This role is hybrid 3x a week to our NYC office in NoHo. We go in Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

About the Team

You'll work closely with Product and Engineering as a core design partner, not as a downstream service function. Because you're not assigned to one pod, you'll have visibility across the whole product and a real say in how our surfaces hang together.

This is a small, fast-moving team where designers are expected to show their work, present at team-wide check-ins, and own the outcomes. If you want a seat where your judgment shapes the product rather than just the pixels, this is that seat.

What You'll Do:

Work cross-project across many features and surfaces, rather than owning a single pod or product area

Take our existing design system and make it something the team actually wants to use: cohesive, scalable, and visually strong

Collaborate closely with the product and engineering teams to define and implement new features and design solutions

Take ownership of the user interface design, from wireframes and prototypes to high-fidelity visuals

Use AI tools such as Claude to build working prototypes, test ideas quickly, and get to the right answer faster

Partner with the product team to align design with business goals and user needs

Present design concepts, updates, and cross-team launches at team-wide check-ins

Stay current on industry trends and best practices in design and user experience

What success looks like:

We believe in setting our team up to thrive.

30 days: you're onboarded, becoming familiar in the product, and you've audited the current design system and surfaced where it's inconsistent or breaking down.

60 days: you're shipping alongside engineering across multiple surfaces, and the first foundational components of the refreshed design system are defined and in use.

90 days: you have materially impacted the quality of user experiences across the Arketa app, and it’s starting to show in product and customer satisfaction metrics

What we're looking for:

Roughly 5+ years in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design expertise and process. We're anchoring senior, but we're open in either direction for the right work

Design-first mentality: you thrive in a design-centric role and enjoy creating high-quality, user-centered interfaces

Outcome driven: it’s not just about building something beautiful. Your designs consider the desired business outcomes from the start, and you love to use data, session captures, and customer interviews to shape and refine your designs.

A mix of B2B and consumer experience is ideal: you can untangle a complex B2B workflow and you can make a consumer surface genuinely beautiful

Experienced in design systems: you've contributed to or led a design system that supports a growing product

Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD

Hands-on with AI: you're actively using tools like Claude to build prototypes and move from idea to working concept quickly

Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams

Organized, self-sufficient, and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple design projects simultaneously

Bonus:

You love building design systems that are visually distinctive, not just consistent

Mobile and native app design experience

Experience at an early-stage or Series A company where design was not yet a defined function

Interest in fitness, wellness, or the studio and small business space

You Should Apply If

You want breadth: many surfaces, many features, and real influence across the product rather than one narrow lane

You'd be excited to inherit a design system that needs love and turn it into something you're proud of

You're already prototyping with AI and want to work somewhere that expects it rather than tolerates it

You can move fast without losing craft, and you can tell the difference between the two

You're mission-driven and excited about wellness becoming more accessiblee

You May Not Want to Apply If

You need an established design org, a defined design process, or a senior design mentor already in place

You prefer deep focus on a single product area over working across many

You'd rather inherit a polished design system than fix one

You want a slower pace or a more established later-stage environment

What We Offer (if in NYC):

Ownership and Opportunity for Advancement

Competitive Salary and Stock Options

Unlimited PTO: our policy is designed to give you the flexibility to rest, recharge, and take care of personal needs - while staying aligned with your team and responsibilities.

Medical, dental and vision health insurance

Fitness Class Reimbursement: we’re committed to supporting both employee wellness and our industry relationships. As an Arketa employee we see movement as opportunity.

Parental Leave Policy

For this role, the estimated annual base salary is up to $165,000- $185,000, depending on experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, we offer equity. We believe in compensating fairly and transparently, and we’re happy to provide more detail during the interview process.