Chess.com

2D Artist

• Long-term, you'll help build and define our creative vision and visual style
• Help Chess.com move from more serious to more playful, fun, and challenging art styles
• Create illustrative assets that bring the vision to life and joy to players
• Collaborate with product, animation, motion design, and engineering to see these assets come to life

2D Game Artist

Full-stack Engineer

• Work with a team of experienced engineers on building new and maintaining existing functionalities.
• Contribute to the decisions around technology and architecture of new solutions.
• Meet and collaborate with awesome mission-driven people.
• Grow Chess.

Senior Fullstack Developer – Chessable, Courses

Data Analyst

• Help define and document our event taxonomy, and work directly with product teams to define new events that are consistent with our overarching event structure and taxonomy
• Dive into our data to discover insights on player behavior across different cohorts, segments, and stages of the user lifecycle, and communicate/collect feedback on your findings from peers, business, and product partners
• Work with business, product, and engineering teams to [plan → design → ship → evaluate] experiments/AB-Tests, and communicate their results/impact with the company.
• Work directly in Amplitude and BigQuery to extract truths and trends that inform and guide business and product decisions
• Develop tools and best practices to ensure high data quality and identify and prevent errors before they reach production datasets
• Collaborate with analysts/data-scientists in building scalable and reproducible analyses, and communicate their insights with the company

Data Analyst, Growth & Monetization

Art Director

• Originate and collaborate in the creation of campaign visuals that reinforce and further define our brand language
• Define the visual direction of marketing campaigns: digital, social, video, motion, and print
• Maintain cohesive brand visuals across all channels: marketing, sponsorships, events, and merchandise
• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Product, Content, Community, and Partnerships to align creative outputs with key objectives
• Leverage data and design thinking to inform visual strategy and iterate campaigns
• Stay ahead of global design trends, audience insights, and competitive positioning to keep Chess.com ’s creative fresh and relevant

Recruitment

• Lead recruiting across a global, fully remote organization, navigating regional market differences and scaling responsibly.
• Design and direct a multi-year talent acquisition strategy aligned to our mission and long-term business goals.
• Own hiring outcomes across the company, balancing speed, quality, and long-term talent health.
• Lead and scale a high-performing recruiting organization, developing strong mentors and leaders and a best-in-class internal function.
• Architect and continuously refine our end-to-end recruitment infrastructure, from workforce planning to onboarding, in partnership with People Operations.
• Lead high-impact or critical searches as needed, managing sensitive and complex roles while modelling best practices for the broader team.
• Partner closely with department leaders, executives, and PBPs to provide expert insight on overall talent strategy, role design, and talent assessment.
• Use recruiting analytics to generate clear, actionable insights that inform company-wide decisions.
• Lead employer branding in collaboration with our Marketing and Communications teams, positioning Chess.com as a destination for top talent in tech and gaming.
• Design equitable hiring frameworks that expand our reach and support fair, consistent candidate evaluation.
• Raise the bar across the company by educating teams on effective interviewing, assessment, and modern hiring practices.
• Stay ahead of global talent market trends and emerging recruiting technology to keep us competitive.

Director, Recruiting – Candidate Experience

Backend Engineer

• Design and architect database systems optimized for Chess.com's specific workloads including real-time gaming, puzzle systems, and social graph traversal
• Build internal tooling and automation to improve database deployment, migration, and operational efficiency, simplifying work streams for the broader engineering organization
• Develop data pipelines and ETL processes for analytics, machine learning features, and cross-system data synchronization
• Engineer multi-regional database architectures capable of handling massive volumes of chess games, user data, and social network interactions with minimal latency
• Solve complex data modeling challenges including chess game storage optimization, puzzle attempt tracking, and large-scale social graph representation
• Drive database platform evolution evaluating and implementing new technologies, storage engines, and architectural patterns with a bias toward continuous improvement
• Build observability and performance tooling providing deep visibility into database behavior, query patterns, and capacity trends
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design optimal schemas, access patterns, and data layer integrations, ensuring the right people have the information they need
• Implement infrastructure-as-code practices for database provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management with high first-time-right quality
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 database availability and contribute to incident post-mortems

Database Engineer

Product Manager

• Lead the creation of new mobile games from concept to launch
• Design and refine core game mechanics, progression systems, and retention loops
• Rapidly prototype ideas using AI-assisted tools (LLMs, no/low-code, simulations, mockups)
• Partner closely with engineering, design, and data to ship high-quality experiences
• Make thoughtful product decisions grounded in player psychology, metrics, and intuition
• Balance speed and craft—knowing when to move fast and when to sweat the details

Senior Product Manager, New Games

• Improve the understanding of how each product feature performs and provide actionable recommendations
• Manage a highly effective team of data analysts
• Establish best practices for experimentation, reporting, and insight generation
• Accurately measure, diagnose, and forecast our business
• Enable the rest of our company to self-serve insights through intuitive dashboards and AI integrations
• Partner closely with our Head of Data Engineering to ensure data validity and consistency

Head of Data Analytics

Product Designer

• Partner closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, Copywriters, and other stakeholders to help define requirements and build effective product experiences together
• Craft polished, high-quality designs for our web and mobile platforms that follow Chess.com design patterns, make use of our design system, and keep players engaged
• Design how players connect, socialize, and share with each other on key surfaces like Home, Profile, Friends, Chat, Leaderboards, and more
• Present your design proposals and clearly articulate your decisions, backing them up with contextual rationale, heuristics, and user insights where possible
• Create and iterate on prototypes to share and further explain your designs with other Designer, Engineers, and stakeholders
• Own your projects from initial concept through to implementation and help ensure design-to-code alignment throughout the process
• Be proactive about suggesting and designing meaningful improvements to our product to make it more fun, social, and consistent across platforms
• Help uplift your design teammates and provide constructive design feedback

Product Designer – Connect

• Contribute to Chess.com ’s Design System by crafting and documenting UI components and design patterns that scale across our web and mobile platforms
• Partner closely with our Design System Architect, Product Designers, Engineers, Product Managers, and design leadership to clarify design system requirements and translate them into scalable UI components
• Create clear and intuitive design documentation for component and pattern usage
• Collaborate with Product Designers and Developers to ensure design-to-code alignment and serve as a primary point of contact for design system questions through Slack and Figma
• Help identify and define visual guidelines that will keep our product experience consistent across platforms
• Support cross functional teams adopting the design system by holding design reviews and learning sessions
• Stay current with industry standards, Figma updates, and design tooling to improve our design system over time.