Product Designer at Chess.com focusing on the Courses product experience. Partnering with cross-functional teams to create engaging educational designs.
Responsibilities
Own the design of the Courses product experience at Chess.com
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Copywriters, and leadership to help define the problem 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 learn new concepts from interactive courses and master them through habit-forming spaced repetition practice
Present your design proposals and clearly articulate your decisions, backing them up with contextual rationale, heuristics, and user insights where possible
Build interactive prototypes to share and quickly test ideas using agentic tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Figma
Make 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
Requirements
3-5 years of experience working as a Product Designer on a consumer facing product or game
A portfolio of your best design work that demonstrates a clear understanding of interface and user experience design
Mastery of UI design fundamentals including typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast, and interactivity
A clear understanding and experience designing responsive and interactive user interfaces for mobile apps and the web
Experience working with a large, established design system
Familiarity with frontend development and how design translates into code
Experience using AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Figma Make to build shareable high fidelity prototypes to share and quickly iterate on
Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a remote, globally distributed team
Excellent written and verbal communication skills that allow you to document and explain your design decisions
A sense of ownership, pride, and responsibility for your craft.
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