Arca

Head of Product

New York. Posted 26 days ago

The role

As the first Head of Product, you will own the end-to-end consumer experience and the advisor platform. You will set the product vision and roadmap while working directly with the founder and engineering team to build an AI-first wealth management ecosystem.

What you will do

  • Own the consumer experience end to end
  • Define the line between human and AI workflows
  • Manage the client experience and advisor platform as a single ecosystem
  • Decide what to build next as the company expands into tax, estate planning, and insurance
  • Set product strategy, vision, and roadmap
  • Develop a lightweight process for ideation, prioritization, documentation, and testing
  • Hire product managers and help build design and engineering functions

Required qualifications

  • Built consumer products people love
  • Have real instincts for trust, simplicity, funnels, and messaging
  • Deep knowledge of AI-native products and a strong opinion on how agents change consumer experience
  • Experience doing meaningful work through hypergrowth
  • Ability to go deep technically to earn the trust of a strong engineering team
  • Ability to give candid feedback while being kind, direct, and low-ego

Nice to have

  • B2B background where the customer looked more like a person than a large enterprise
  • Built AI-first products or led serious AI initiatives
  • Designing human-in-the-loop workflows and agent handoffs
  • Founding or early-team experience at a hypergrowth consumer company
  • Leading a 0-to-1 bet inside a top product org
  • Experience leading design
  • A public voice through writing, speaking, or community
  • Experience in fintech, investing, or regulated consumer finance

About the company

Arca is a wealth management firm built from the ground up with AI. They are rebuilding the wealth management business from the inside using an AI-driven platform for advisors and clients.