2D Game Artist at Chess

About Chess.com

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the number one platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. Our team of over 600 fully remote people spans more than 60 countries, working hard to serve the global chess community. We support over 250 million chess players worldwide with the best product, content, and tools. We are a tech company, a gaming company, and a content company, and we approach everything with passion and commitment to the game. Above all, we value our mission driven, flat, life celebrating, no corporate culture.

About You

You love the creative process and bring your own ideas while also incorporating ideas from others into your art. You are imaginative enough that an audience can look at your work and immediately see the fun, yet practical enough to recognize that simplicity helps focus the product experience into a more effective learning tool. You like chess and building light hearted worlds that help audiences want to improve both inside and outside the game.

What You Will Do

• Long term, help build and define our creative vision and visual style, and help Chess.com move from more serious to more playful, fun, and challenging art styles. You will be an essential member of the team, contributing to a range of product and branding initiatives.
• Day to day, create illustrative assets that bring the vision to life and joy to players as they continue on their chess journey. You will collaborate with product, animation, motion design, and engineering to see these assets come to life.

Preferred Skills

• Grand Master command of designing vector artwork with a bias for optimized construction using tools like Adobe Illustrator and Figma
• Excellent 2D art and illustration skills
• A keen eye for composition, perspective, color theory, and directing the viewer's eye
• Comfortable creating a range of art assets including environments, objects, storyboards, characters, and clothing
• Superb imagination and creativity within the direction of a creative world and interactive product
• Ability to match an established art style yet flexible enough to work in a variety of styles, for both illustration and vector art
• 3 or more years of experience in a gaming environment
• Ability to pick up new technical skills and concepts quickly
• Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Great collaboration across a small team pod and larger product team, owning pipeline deliverables autonomously with some support
• Versatile, flexible, and willing to do what is needed in a fast moving environment
• A portfolio that demonstrates the needs of the role well

Nice To Have Skills

• A passion for games and excitement around sharing the game of chess
• Knowledge of animation pipelines building 2D assets for game animation
• Experience bringing characters and user interfaces to life with motion design tools like Lottie, Rive, or CSS

About the Opportunity

• This is a full time salaried or contract opportunity depending on your location
• We are 100 percent remote (work from anywhere)