Senior Product Designer shaping social features across Chess.com’s web and mobile chess platform. Designing polished experiences for player connection, messaging, profiles, and community engagement.
Responsibilities
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
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
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