Senior Product Designer, Connect
Chess.com
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Product-DesignProduct-DesignerUI-DesignUX-DesignMobile-DesignUI-UX-DesignerSenior-Product-Designer-IISenior-Interaction-DesignerSenior-Product-DesignProduct DesignerDesign SystemEngineeringdesigningAndroidwrittendesigniOSandFulltime
Key highlights
- Required experience: 5+ years
- Benefit: 100% remote / work from anywhere
- Requirement: At least 3 hours overlap with U.S. working hours
- Key requirement: Proficiency in agentic tools like Cursor and Claude
Role overview
Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess, operated by a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries. As a Senior Product Designer in Connect, you’ll lead the design of high-impact experiences for visible features like Home, Profile, Notifications, Widgets, Friends, Messages, and Sharing, partnering cross-functionally to craft a cohesive experience across web, iOS, and Android for millions of players worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design of high-impact product experiences across Chess.com’s web, iOS, and Android apps, and deliver polished, production-ready UI designs.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and other stakeholders to shape requirements, clarify ambiguity, and influence product and design direction.
- Design how players connect, socialize, and feel like they’re part of a global community on key features like Home, Profile, Friends, Messaging, Notifications, Leaderboards, and more.
- Think horizontally across features and the broader design system, identifying opportunities to improve consistency, usability, and quality across the product.
- Raise the craft bar through strong UI design, thoughtful interactions, and sound product judgment grounded in context, heuristics, and user insight.
- Proactively identify meaningful product opportunities beyond the immediate brief and help move them from idea to well-articulated design direction.
- Present your design proposals and clearly articulate your decisions, navigate differing perspectives, and help cross-functional partners align to reach strong decisions.
- Build and iterate on high-fidelity prototypes using our Design System, using tools like Cursor and Claude, to explore directions and accelerate decision making.
- Contribute to design critiques, provide constructive feedback to other Product Designers, and help strengthen the quality of the team’s work without direct people-management responsibility.
- Maintain design ownership through implementation and help ensure strong design-to-code alignment across platforms.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working as a Product Designer on a consumer-facing product or game.
- A portfolio of polished web and mobile UI design work that demonstrates excellent craft, strong product thinking, and accountability.
- Mastery of UI design fundamentals, including typography, color, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast, interactivity, user experience heuristics.
- Experience using agentic tools like Cursor and Claude to build shareable prototypes and quickly iterate on different ideasDemonstrated experience owning complex product work from early problem definition through implementation.
- Strong Design system fluency, including the ability to use established patterns while thinking across features and identifying opportunities to improve consistency.
- A 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 the judgment to operate effectively with autonomy and ambiguity.
Nice to have
- 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 frontend development experience on web, iOS, or Android.
Benefits
- 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
Additional details
- This is a full-time position.
- This position is open to applicants globally and requires at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours.
- Chess.com prizes its mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture.