Senior Product Designer, Growth

Chess.com is a global gaming, technology, and content company focused on helping people play, learn, and enjoy chess. The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for high-impact social and community experiences across web, iOS, and Android, partnering with cross-functional teams to shape product direction and deliver polished designs. The role will also elevate design quality, improve consistency across the product, and support design critiques and implementation.

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:

• 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
• 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
• This position is open to applicants globally and requires at least 3 hours of overlap with U.S. working hours
• 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