Jobs at Chess.com

Lead and evolve Chess.com’s creative vision and visual identity across marketing, product, and brand. Design and art direct major campaigns, launches, and performance marketing; mentor and grow the creative team; partner with Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Content to translate strategy into compelling multi-channel creative; advance brand guidelines and design systems; manage creative resourcing and asset pipelines to deliver work that builds brand equity and drives measurable business growth.

Lead roadmap and vision for Chess.com core product; collaborate with engineering, design, and leadership to define specs, run experiments, and move engagement and retention metrics. Prototype with AI, operate asynchronously, and drive features through to delivery.

As a Senior Product Manager for Chess AI, you'll shape the AI/ML roadmap, partner with engineering, and define product success metrics, while collaborating with stakeholders to enhance user engagement and experience in chess.

Build and maintain cloud-native, service-based systems connecting users across Chess.com. Develop and ship code to Kubernetes, use AI tools (Cursor/Claude), perform code reviews, and design scalable software serving millions of users while building telemetry and dashboards.

The Site Reliability Engineer will manage infrastructure stability and scalability, lead cloud migrations, and optimize performance across systems while mentoring team members.

Design and own core Chess.com product experiences (gameplay, puzzles, bots, learning, tournaments). Partner with cross-functional teams to create polished web and mobile interfaces, build interactive prototypes, ensure design-to-code alignment, present design rationale, and proactively propose product improvements to elevate user experience for millions of players.

The Database Engineer will design and build scalable database systems for Chess.com's infrastructure, focusing on performance, automation, and data management. Responsibilities include developing tooling, engineering architectures for high availability, and optimizing data storage and access patterns.

As a Senior ML Engineer, you'll own ML-driven features from modeling to deployment, drive innovation in generative AI, and mentor junior members.

The UX/UI Designer will create engaging interactions for web and mobile, owning projects from concept to implementation while collaborating with teams to define and solve design problems.

Lead a small data science team to build production algorithms and models across product and fair-play, partner with cross-functional teams to ship features, design cheating-detection systems, mentor data scientists, and communicate results to stakeholders.