Product Designer (Connect Team) at Chess.com

About Chess.com

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the leading platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. We are a team of 600+ fully remote people across 60+ countries, dedicated to serving a global chess community. We support over 200 million chess players worldwide with the best product, content, and tools. We are a tech company, a gaming company, and a content company, all driven by passion for the game. Our mission driven, flat, life celebrating, no corporate culture sets us apart.

About the Role

As a Product Designer in Connect, you will help design and iterate on high impact experiences for key features such as Home, Profile, Notifications, Widgets, Friends, Messages, and Sharing. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and other Product Designers to craft polished and engaging experiences across web, iOS, and Android for millions of players globally.

About You

You are a curious, craft focused Product Designer who enjoys turning product problems into polished, intuitive interfaces. You are interested in how people connect and designing fun, healthy ways for them to build relationships. You ask thoughtful questions, welcome feedback, and are comfortable collaborating from early problem definition through implementation. You care about details, communicate clearly, and work proactively in a highly visible, globally distributed environment.

What You Will Do

• Design polished, production ready user interfaces for Chess.com apps across web, iOS, and Android.
• Own the design of projects from early problem definition through implementation, ensuring strong design to code alignment.
• Partner with Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, explore design directions, and build effective product experiences.
• Use Chess.com design patterns and our established design system to create responsive, interactive experiences that balance engagement with simplicity.
• Create and iterate on prototypes using agentic tools like Cursor and Claude to communicate complex ideas efficiently and rapidly iterate.
• Present your work and explain your design decisions using clear rationale, user insights, and product context.
• Participate proactively in our Slack heavy remote environment, ask questions early, suggest improvements, and contribute constructive feedback to the design team.

Skills and Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience as a Product Designer on a consumer facing product or game.
• A portfolio showing polished UI design for web and mobile apps that clearly demonstrates your personal contribution.
• Strong command of UI design fundamentals: typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast, and interactivity.
• Experience working with an established design system using tokens, components, and design patterns.
• Familiarity with front end development and how design translates into code.
• Experience using AI assisted tools like Cursor and Claude to prototype and iterate on ideas.
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, ownership, and follow through in a remote, globally distributed team.

Preferred / Nice to Haves

• A love for chess and knowledge of Chess.com and its product experience.
• Experience designing social features for mobile games or consumer products.
• Motion design experience, with strong product and UI design craft as the foundation.
• Design engineering or front end development experience on web, iOS, or Android.

About the Opportunity

• This is a full time position.
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!).
• This position is open to applicants globally and requires at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours.

Learn more about us here: Chess is for everyone! Our values. We look forward to meeting you!