Product Designer, Growth

Summary

Chess.com is a global technology, gaming, and content company focused on helping people play, learn, and enjoy chess. The Product Designer, Growth role designs and iterates on polished experiences for connection-oriented features across web, iOS, and Android, collaborating with product, engineering, and design teams from problem definition through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design polished, production-ready user interfaces for Chess.com apps across web, iOS, and Android
• Own the design of projects from early problem definition through implementation, helping ensure strong design-to-code alignment throughout the process
• Partner with Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, explore design directions, and build effective product experiences together
• Use Chess.com design patterns and our established design system to create responsive, interactive experiences that balance engagement with simplicity
• Create and iterate on prototypes using agentic tools like Cursor and Claude, to communicate complex ideas efficiently and rapidly iterate on them
• Present your work and explain your design decisions using clear rationale, user insights, and product context
• Participate proactively in our Slack-heavy remote environment, ask questions early, suggest meaningful improvements, and contribute constructive feedback to the design team

Skills

• 2-3 years of experience working as a Product Designer on a consumer-facing product or game
• A portfolio that shows polished UI design for web and mobile apps that clearly demonstrates your personal contribution
• Strong command of UI design fundamentals, including typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast, and interactivity
• Experience working 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 like Cursor and Claude to prototype and iterate on ideas
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, ownership, and follow-through in a remote, globally distributed team
• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This position is open to applicants globally and requires at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours
• A love for chess and knowledge of Chess.com and its product experience
• Experience designing social features for mobile games or consumer products
• Motion design experience, with strong product and UI design craft as the foundation
• Design engineering or frontend development experience on web, iOS, or Android

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2-3 years of experience working as a Product Designer on a consumer-facing product or game
• A portfolio that shows polished UI design for web and mobile apps that clearly demonstrates your personal contribution
• Strong command of UI design fundamentals, including typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast, and interactivity
• Experience working 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 like Cursor and Claude to prototype and iterate on ideas
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, ownership, and follow-through in a remote, globally distributed team
• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This position is open to applicants globally and requires at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours

Nice to Haves

• A love for chess and knowledge of Chess.com and its product experience
• Experience designing social features for mobile games or consumer products
• Motion design experience, with strong product and UI design craft as the foundation
• Design engineering or frontend development experience on web, iOS, or Android

Benefits

• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!).