Senior Data Analyst, Growth & Monetization - ChessKid

your Jared; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible schedule

Paid time off

Job summary

Chess.com is a world-leading online chess platform with a fully remote global team. We’re seeking an analytics-minded professional to drive product innovation and growth through data-driven insights across consumer software and gaming analytics.

You’ll partner with product, engineering, and business partners to uncover behaviors that inform retention, engagement, monetization, and product interaction. You’ll define event taxonomies, run experiments, and deliver clear insights that guide

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data analytics & data visualization.

Responsibilities

• Define and document event taxonomy with product teams.
• Dive into data to uncover insights on player behavior across cohorts and lifecycle stages.
• Plan, design, ship, and evaluate experiments/AB tests; communicate results widely.
• Work directly in Amplitude and BigQuery to extract truths and inform decisions.
• Develop tools and best practices to ensure data quality and prevent production issues.
• Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to build scalable analyses and share insights.

Skills

Data analytics

Data visualization

Experiment design

Amplitude

BigQuery

SQL

Python/Jupyter

Git

Event taxonomy

Collaboration

Distributed team

Kids ed-tech experience

Tools

Amplitude

BigQuery

SQL

Python

Git

Job description

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 200M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

ChessKid.com is the world’s #1 chess site for kids and the scholastic extension of Chess.com. ChessKid is fun, educational, and dedicated to being a safe place for kids to learn and play chess.

ChessKid stats (as of Dec. 2025)

• 12M+ Happy Kids on the platform
• 31K+ Schools use ChessKid
• 97M+ Games played on ChessKid
• 118M+ Puzzles Solved
• 17M+ Lessons taken

About You

You are an analytic thinker with a passion for driving product innovation and business growth through data-driven insights. With experience in consumer software and/or gaming analytics and funnels, you are adept at navigating data to extract meaningful insights on user retention, engagement, monetization, and product interaction. You have the product and business knowledge to serve a diverse set of stakeholders, and can also proactively produce insights that get our teams working on the right thing, faster.

Your analytical skills are matched by a strategic mindset and an ability to communicate insights in a simple and compelling way. You find purpose in working for a company that values both its product and its people, and you bring a blend of analytical, strategic, and technical skills to the table.

What you'll do

• Help define and document our event taxonomy, and work directly with product teams to define new events that are consistent with our overarching event structure and taxonomy
• Dive into our data to discover insights on player behavior across different cohorts, segments, and stages of the user lifecycle, and communicate/collect feedback on your findings from peers, business, and product partners
• Work with business, product, and engineering teams to [plan → design → ship → evaluate] experiments/AB-Tests, and communicate their results/impact with the company.
• Work directly in Amplitude and BigQuery to extract truths and trends that inform and guide business and product decisions
• Develop tools and best practices to ensure high data quality and identify and prevent errors before they reach production datasets
• Collaborate with analysts/data-scientists in building scalable and reproducible analyses, and communicate their insights with the company

Preferred Skills

• 3+ years of experience in data analytics & data visualization
• Experience in collaborating others to [plan → design → ship → evaluate] product experiments
• Experience with Amplitude, BigQuery, and SQL
• Some experience with a Python/Jupyter Notebook + Git setup
• Experience in defining event taxonomy for consumer digital applications
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, working in a fully distributed team
• Experience with kids' gaming/ed-tech/subscription models is a huge bonus!

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time opportunity!
• We are 100% remote