Senior Product Designer

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.

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 No

Ho. We go in Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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.

• 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

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

• 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…