Product Designer

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. The fully remote team works across 60+ countries to serve the global chess community. It is a tech, gaming, and content company with a mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture.

• Design polished, production-ready interfaces for Chess.com apps across web, iOS, and Android.
• Own project design from early problem definition through implementation, helping ensure design-to-code alignment.
• Partner with Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, explore design directions, and create effective product experiences.
• Use Chess.com design patterns and its established design system to create responsive, interactive experiences balancing engagement and simplicity.
• Create and iterate on prototypes using agentic tools such as Cursor and Claude.
• Present work and explain design decisions using clear rationale, user insights, and product context.
• Participate proactively in the Slack-heavy remote environment, ask questions early, suggest improvements, and give constructive feedback to the design team.

• 2–3 years of experience as a Product Designer on a consumer-facing product or game.
• Portfolio demonstrating polished UI design for web and mobile apps and clearly showing personal contributions.
• Strong UI design fundamentals, including typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast, and interactivity.
• Experience with an established design system using tokens, components, and design patterns.
• Familiarity with frontend development and how design translates into code.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools such as Cursor and Claude to prototype and iterate.
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, ownership, and follow-through in a remote, globally distributed team.
• Preferred: love of chess and knowledge of Chess.com; experience designing social features for mobile games or consumer products; motion design experience; design engineering or frontend development experience on web, iOS, or Android.
• At least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours required.

• Full-time position.
• 100% remote; work from anywhere.
• Open to applicants globally, with at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours.