Senior Product Designer, Connect

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🕒 September 12

🌏 Anywhere in the World

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Chess.com

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🎮 Gaming

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 Private Equity Round on 2022-01

Gaming • Education • Media

Chess. com is the leading online platform for playing and learning chess, offering a wide range of features such as live gameplay with other players, customizable training bots, chess puzzles, and comprehensive lessons. The platform is highly regarded for enhancing players' pattern recognition and overall chess skills. Chess. com also provides coverage of major chess events like the FIDE World Championship. With a focus on creating a supportive and engaging community for chess players of all levels, Chess. com is a go-to resource for anyone interested in improving their chess game or enjoying competitive play.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end design of high-impact product experiences across Chess.com’s web, iOS, and Android apps • Deliver polished, production-ready UI designs • Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and other stakeholders to shape requirements, clarify ambiguity, and influence product and design direction • Design features that help players connect and socialize, including Home, Profile, Friends, Messaging, Notifications, Leaderboards, and more • Think across features and the broader design system to improve consistency, usability, and quality • Raise the craft bar through strong UI design, thoughtful interactions, and sound product judgment • Identify product opportunities beyond the immediate brief and develop design direction • Present design proposals, articulate decisions, navigate differing perspectives, and align cross-functional partners • Build and iterate high-fidelity prototypes using the Design System, Cursor, and Claude • Contribute to design critiques and provide constructive feedback to Product Designers • Maintain design ownership through implementation and ensure design-to-code alignment across platforms

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working as a Product Designer on a consumer-facing product or game • Portfolio of polished web and mobile UI design work demonstrating excellent craft, strong product thinking, and accountability • Mastery of UI design fundamentals, including typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast, interactivity, and user experience heuristics • Experience using agentic tools like Cursor and Claude to build shareable prototypes and quickly iterate on ideas • Demonstrated experience owning complex product work from early problem definition through implementation • Strong Design system fluency • Track record of influencing product and design decisions, presenting proposals clearly, and navigating cross-functional disagreement or competing priorities • Familiarity with frontend development and how design translates into code across web and mobile platforms • Strong written and verbal communication, proactive remote collaboration, and judgment to operate effectively with autonomy and ambiguity • Preferred: love for chess and knowledge of Chess.com and its product experience • Preferred: experience designing social features for mobile games or consumer products • Preferred: motion design experience • Preferred: design engineering or frontend development experience on web, iOS, or Android

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from anywhere • Full-time position • Global remote team • At least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours