Senior Product Manager
Chess.com
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights
- Experience: 4+ years in product management (required)
- Remote: 100% remote (work from anywhere)
- Timezone: Requires overlap with US Eastern and Pacific
- Users: Support 250M+ global chess players
- Culture: Flat, no-corporate, mission-driven
- Role Type: Full-time opportunity
Role overview
Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. They are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working to support 250M+ chess players worldwide with a mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, and no-corporate culture. As a Product Manager, you will shape the core product roadmap and vision to make the Chess.com experience more fun, engaging, and rewarding for players of all levels. The role requires a blend of technical know-how, a deep love for the game of chess, and extensive experience shipping consumer-facing products that drive engagement and retention.
Responsibilities
- Shape the core product roadmap and vision.
- In close partnership with leadership, shape both the near-term roadmap and the long-term vision for the core Chess.com experience, making the product more fun, engaging, and enjoyable for players at every level.
- Identify what keeps players coming back, what causes them to leave, and what will delight them next.
- Bring ideas and sharpen them with the team.
- Come with your own point of view on what's worth building and why.
- Engage with feedback from leadership and peers: internalize it, push back where you disagree, and use it to make the work better.
- Operate in public: As a globally remote company spanning many time zones, async Slack communication is how decisions get made.
- Work out loud in channels: brainstorm openly, pose sharp questions, make decisive small calls with reasoning attached, and be explicit on what's urgent vs. not.
- Engage with depth and without ego, pull the right people in by name to build alignment.
- Make the most of sync meeting time by taking on the biggest questions.
- Partner deeply with engineering, early and through to delivery.
- Shape the technical approach alongside engineering partners, write specs that are crisp on intent and honest about tradeoffs, and be a force driving through to execution.
- Unblock, reprioritize, and ship.
- Own engagement metrics and move them.
- Define the metrics that matter for your area, build intuition for what drives them, and hold yourself accountable to moving them.
- Use data to prioritize ruthlessly, run experiments, and know when to trust your gut vs. wait for more signal.
- Use AI to prototype, de-risk, and accelerate.
- Build mocks, test flows, and pressure-test ideas yourself before engineering invests.
- Bring working artifacts into discussions, not just decks.
- Build delightful, fun mechanics that keep players engaged.
- Improve retention by identifying and emphasizing the moments that matter most in a user's journey.
- Turn one-time visitors into daily players by giving them something to look forward to, something to work toward, and something to celebrate.
- Communicate regularly and successfully to executive stakeholders.
- Work closely with engineering all the way through to delivery and drive on execution.
Requirements
- You love to play chess and want to help others discover that same joy.
- You are intimately familiar with Chess.com products and care deeply about what makes the experience fun, sticky, and rewarding for players of all levels.
- Extensive experience as a product manager shipping consumer-facing products that drive engagement and retention.
- Experience working deeply with engineering teams to define what success looks like in an ambiguous environment.
- Technical know-how: ability to talk through pipelines and data so you can have clear and productive conversations with engineering.
- 4+ years in product management, with strong consumer product experience.
- You've shipped consumer-facing products that millions of people use and love.
- Excellent product taste, especially in the chess context. You know what feels good and what doesn't.
- You understand what a beginner needs vs. a club player vs. a titled player, and you can articulate the differences in what makes each experience great.
- High-velocity communicator: You communicate clearly and concisely at speed and across many projects.
- Act as the focal point across design, engineering, stakeholders, product peers, and executives, digging into engineering specifics in one thread then zooming out to exec-level outcomes in the next.
- Operate primarily in writing, with throughput high enough that multiple workstreams keep moving without you becoming a bottleneck.
- Candidates must be able to work with significant overlap with both United States Eastern and Pacific time zones.
Nice to have
- 7+ years in product management, with strong consumer product experience.
- Technically fluent: You collaborate deeply with engineers and understand systems. You're comfortable reasoning about what a metric is telling you and connecting engineering discussions back to the product and ultimately the user.
- AI-native: You already use AI daily to prototype, explore ideas, and accelerate execution. You build working prototypes as the basis for discussion.
Benefits
- 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
- Mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture
Additional details
- Chess.com is a tech company, a gaming company, and a content company.
- Team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries.
- Support 250M+ chess players worldwide.
- This is a full-time opportunity.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.