Senior Product Designer, Connect

Chess.com; Orem (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chess.com is seeking a Senior Product Designer for Connect to lead end-to-end design of web, iOS, and Android experiences for a global community of players. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and fellow designers to craft cohesive experiences across platforms.

You’ll influence product direction, raise the craft bar, and create high‑fidelity prototypes using our Design System to accelerate decisions. This is a fully remote role with global applicants.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing consumer-facing products or games.
• Strong visual craft and product judgement.
• Portfolio with web and mobile UI work demonstrating craft and product thinking.
• Fluency with design systems and cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design of high-impact product experiences across Chess.com’s web, iOS, and Android apps.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design to shape requirements, clarify ambiguity, and influence direction.
• Design how players connect and feel part of a global community on key features like Home, Profile, Friends, Messaging, and Notifications.
• Think horizontally across features and the broader design system to improve consistency, usability, and quality.
• Raise craft with strong UI design, thoughtful interactions, and product judgment grounded in context and user insight.
• Proactively identify meaningful product opportunities beyond the brief and drive design direction.
• Present designs clearly, articulate decisions, and align cross-functional partners to reach strong outcomes.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes using our Design System to explore directions and accelerate decisions.
• Contribute to design critiques and help strengthen the team’s work without people-management responsibility.
• Maintain design ownership through implementation and ensure design-to-code alignment across platforms.

Skills

Product Design

Cross-functional collaboration

UI/UX Craft

Design Systems

Remote collaboration

Communication

Frontend awareness

Cursor

Claude

Tools

Cursor

Claude

Job description

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 250M+ 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.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Designer in Connect, you’ll lead the design of high-impact experiences for some of our most important and visible features like Home, Profile, Notifications, Widgets, Friends, Messages, Sharing, and more.

Your work will span cross-functionally where different features meet and overlap and you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and other Product Designers to craft an engaging and cohesive experience across web, iOS, and Android for millions of players across the world.

You’ll identify opportunities beyond the brief, and influence product and design decisions while helping raise the craft quality bar across the team.

About You

You’re an experienced Product Designer with strong visual craft, product judgment, and the confidence to influence how a product takes shape. You think beyond the feature in front of you, considering how decisions connect across product experiences. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing perspectives, present your thinking with clarity and composure, and help other designers improve through thoughtful critique.

You’re interested in how people connect and find joy in designing fun and healthy ways for them to build relationships and feel like part of a global community.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Skills / Qualifications

• 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.

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 frontend 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.

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