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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
- 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
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