Most recent job postings at Chess.com
via Glassdoor posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
REMOTE Product ... Product 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 also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy premium members. We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all REMOTE
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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 also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy premium members.

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.

What You’ll Do

As a Graphic Designer, you will work to bring fun, personality, and professionalism to our media, marketing, and broadcast events. You will work closely with our art directors and project managers to deliver designs in a fast paced yet friendly environment. You will be an integral part of bringing the fun of chess to millions of players daily. Our ideal candidate will have experience working across the disciplines of online design, and demonstrate the ability to create graphics that are simple, clear, and fun. You should have a demonstrated ability to build dynamic graphics packages and templates across a wide array of styles. You should have strong foundational design skills, and be constantly learning and mastering new skills to work towards developing your creative vision.
• You must share work online to be considered for this position.

Preferred Skills
• 3+ years experience in online design
• Strong graphic design acumen
• Exceptional creativity and problem solving
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite
• Proficiency with Figma
• Strong production skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Portfolio displaying breadth of work
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to take creative input and collaborate with team members
• Able to stay productive and fulfilled in a remote work environment
• Able to work at least 4 hours that overlap with core US hours
• Must have high speed internet connection
• Illustration skills are a bonus

About the Opportunity
• This is a full-time or equivalent position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be!)

You can learn more about us here:
• https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about

We look forward to meeting you
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via Remote Workers posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Director of Project Management REMOTE PRODUCT... 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 500+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy premium members. We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. Director of Project Management
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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 500+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy premium members.

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 You

You love building things. You inspire, serve, mentor, and organize. You have been working on software for years, and it would be a dream for you to use your talent and experience to build chess. You want to work for a passion- driven company full of warm, funny, brilliant, diverse humans.
What You’ll Do
• Work with our CEO and broader team to plan and execute the product roadmap
• Serve our amazing product / project managers to help them thrive and grow
• Manage our Notion -> JIRA -> Done workstreams
• Identify and own product KPIs, with the support of Product and Business Analysts, to meet our product goals
• Work closely with Product Design to make sure we delight our community
• Organize our team to make sure our processes are in place to stay on schedule and regularly deliver greatness
• See the world through the eyes of our customers as you obsess over small product details without losing the bigger picture
• Drive innovation, be a critical and vocal influence on product roadmap decisions
• Communicate cross-organizationally with support and content teams to keep a pulse on the global chess community and their response to our products
• Partner with Engineering to manage the delivery of features across web, iOS, and Android
• Help us build out our Product Marketing capabilities
Preferred Skills
• 7+ years of product ownership / project management in software
• 3+ years of management experience
• Deep expertise in JIRA and the product lifecycle
• Understanding of chess and current chess products and features on the market
About the Opportunity
• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This position is open to applicants who can work in the USA or Canada
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via Glassdoor posted_at: 8 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
REMOTE Inactive ... Inactive 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 500+ fully remote people in 70+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy subscribers. We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with REMOTE
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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 500+ fully remote people in 70+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy subscribers.

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 You

You are thoughtful, empathetic, and understanding with the ability to guide users through problems or issues. You have extensive experience working with others to solve problems in a clear, concise, and respectful way! Your role will be to help Chess.com members solve their problems. We get thousands of support requests each day and you will need to either find their answer, or resolve their issue. You will use your own computer to login to our support system and resolve tickets. You will also be expected to help test new features and document bugs, etc. You are humble with a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously. You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!

What You’ll Do
• Using our ticketing system you will respond to users issues and concerns with timeliness and detail
• You will identify feature bugs or concerns and report them to relevant teams
• You will be on the lookout for harassment and foul-play
• Handle high amounts of incoming tickets
• Identify and evaluate customers’ needs to deliver satisfaction
• Build sustainable relationships of trust through open and interactive discussion
• Manage complaints, provide proper solutions and options within the time limits; follow up to secure resolution
• Keep records of customer interactions, process customer accounts, and file documents
• Follow communication procedures, guidelines, and policies
• Go the extra mile to engage customers

Preferred Skills
• Some proven customer support experience or experience as a client service representative
• Customer orientation and capacity to adapt/respond to different types of characters
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and control time effectively
• Completed high school
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Chess player
• Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity
• This is a full time or equivalent position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This is open to applicants from anywhere!

You can learn more about us here:
• https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-chess-com-s-100-person-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about

We look forward to meeting you
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via Glassdoor posted_at: 4 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
REMOTE Chess ... Chess 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 also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy premium members. We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with REMOTE
Chess
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Chess

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 also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy premium members.

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 You

You are a passionate Chess.com community member who “knows” chess and understands the landscape of chess events, both online and offline. Reporting directly to the Director of Community Operations, you are the glue between the broadcast team and the community team. Overseeing the aspects of community integrations to our online events, you will ensure our team of moderators has the support needed for broadcast events. You have an uncanny ability to communicate the wants/needs of others to support operational solutions through our broadcasts.

What You’ll Do
• Coordinate all communication and tech for chat moderation and coordinating assignments and responsibilities for moderators
• Help execute the moderation strategy during our broadcast
• Fully own the moderator scheduling and help manage the team
• Be present at broadcasted shows and liaise between broadcast, community, and other relevant teams during our broadcasts
• Provide our broadcast with featured chat messages throughout the shows
• Lead on event marketing implementation with moderation and community spaces
• Report on chat activity metrics and work with the Community team to engage our audience

Preferred Skills
• Extensive knowledge about streaming/gaming culture, and with familiarity with the recent growth of chess in these environments
• In-touch with the chess community on platforms like Twitch, YouTube and Discord
• Experience with managing chat commands and constructing precise communication for a chat environment
• Experience with managing a mixed team of staff and volunteers
• Experience with spreadsheets and data manipulation
• A passion for chess, community, and chess entertainment
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility

About the Opportunity
• This is a full-time or contract position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be!)

You can learn more about us here:
• https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about

We look forward to meeting you
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via Glassdoor posted_at: 9 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
REMOTE Business ... Business About Us Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the clear #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. We are a team of 500+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players having chosen Chess.com as their online chess home, and a large base of happy premium subscribers. We are a tech REMOTE
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Business

About Us

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

We are a team of 500+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players having chosen Chess.com as their online chess home, and a large base of happy premium subscribers.

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 You

You played for your college/university chess team or maybe started your own chess club. You have experience leading successful marketing programs for college students in America, and preferably students abroad as well. You're less than 10 years removed from campus and have excelled and gained leadership experience in that time. You love chess and you want to grow the game, sharing your passion with the world.

What You’ll Do
• Help change the world by leading all things colleges at Chess.com, including our College Chess League (#1 online chess league) and our College Ambassador Program (one of the fastest growing college programs in the United States)
• https://www.chess.com/news/view/college-ambassador-program
• Lead a growing team of passionate college growth managers who oversee both of these programs and help to expand both throughout the world in 2023
• Guide a network of hundreds of passionate chess ambassadors all over the world to grow the game of chess on their college/university campuses and connect chess to many other areas of campus life
• Develop marketing and strategy plans to further develop the cultural movement that we are creating and to create fun and viral moments on college/university campuses, both in-person and virtual (esp. social media)
• Work closely with a range of key stakeholders within Chess.com, from our senior leadership team to our field marketing, events, CRM and other groups
• Visit college campuses occasionally, e.g. for big events that we create

Preferred Skills
• 5+ Years of experience in marketing/growth marketing/product marketing, 2+ years managing a team
• You have 2+ years of experience doing marketing/growth programs for consumers, ideally college students
• Experience with ground-swell/guerilla marketing movements and/or ambassador-driven marketing
• Strong bias for action and experience with entrepreneurial ventures and/or scaling up early-stage programs
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Chess player (though it is not required that you are a strong chess player)
• Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity
• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This is open to applicants from the USA

You can learn more about us here:
• https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-chess-com-s-100-person-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about

We look forward to meeting you
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via Mountain View CA Geebo.com Free Classifieds Ads - Geebo posted_at: 23 hours agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
About You You have been in charge of a mobile game product for several years, and had some success. You have strong design and UX instincts, and an understanding of mobile game best practices and industry standards. You are able to build a product roadmap informed by data analysis, user feedback, and testing. What You'll Do Manage all aspects of the Dr. Wolf business Manage projects and... production Design and specify new features Oversee support About You You have been in charge of a mobile game product for several years, and had some success. You have strong design and UX instincts, and an understanding of mobile game best practices and industry standards. You are able to build a product roadmap informed by data analysis, user feedback, and testing. What You'll Do Manage all aspects of the Dr. Wolf business Manage projects and... production Design and specify new features Oversee support and software development teams Collaborate with people and teams through Chess.com Preferred Skills 3
years running a mobile game product Excellent communication skills Understanding of mobile game KPIs Strong familiarity with chess Enjoyment of teaching and learning games About the Opportunity This is a full-time or equivalent position We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be)
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification
Technical Product ManagementEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications
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via Indeed posted_at: 5 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
REMOTE Engineering... Engineering About Us Millions of students have learned chess from the kind and patient Dr. Wolf. “Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf” started as an indie labor of love and has grown into a successful operation with a small and dedicated team. But there’s so much more to be done! With your creativity, dedication and attention, we know we can bring the joy of chess and learning to many more people. About You You’re an experienced REMOTE

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About Us

Millions of students have learned chess from the kind and patient Dr. Wolf. “Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf” started as an indie labor of love and has grown into a successful operation with a small and dedicated team. But there’s so much more to be done! With your creativity, dedication and attention, we know we can bring the joy of chess and learning to many more people.

About You

You’re an experienced mobile app developer with strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of programming best practices. You're able to mentor a small team of developers while also driving the project forward. You are a problem solver, a strong communicator, and you have a track record of delivering high-quality products.

You love Dr. Wolf and want to be a part of our mission to spread the game of chess, and build the most fun and effective way to learn the game.

What You’ll Do
• Support and organize our small, dedicated development team.
• Build features and fix bugs for our iOS and Android apps.
• Collaborate with the product team to architect and map out engineering plans.
• Conduct code reviews and give code feedback to the team.
• Lead our testing strategy and our approach to technical debt.
• Stay up to date with best practices in mobile development and make recommendations to improve our tech stack.
• Collaborate with other technology teams within Chess.com who provide chess-related technologies to be used inside the Dr. Wolf app.

Required Skills
• 5+ years experience in development on mobile game products.
• 3+ years of experience supporting experienced developers.
• Strong JavaScript and Swift skills. Kotlin is a bonus.
• Strong understanding of software development best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong understanding of Git and the pull request workflow.
• Familiarity with unit and integration testing for mobile applications.
• Strong familiarity with chess and a love for the game!

About the Opportunity
• This is a full-time or equivalent position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be)
• Learn more about Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf here: https://www.learnchesswithdrwolf.com
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via Mountain View CA Geebo.com Free Classifieds Ads - Geebo posted_at: 23 hours agoschedule_type: Full-timesalary: 20–28 an hour
About You Your goal is to help us at every level of the funnel: attract, convert, engage, retain. ChessKid is too awesome to not have 5 million MAUs or more! Your opportunity is to help take ChessKid to the next level by implementing best practices for growth and own the entire funnel from marketing to registration to membership. Our awesome tech and product team is here to support you as you... build out the data, analysis, and monetization needed About You Your goal is to help us at every level of the funnel:
attract, convert, engage, retain. ChessKid is too awesome to not have 5 million MAUs or more! Your opportunity is to help take ChessKid to the next level by implementing best practices for growth and own the entire funnel from marketing to registration to membership. Our awesome tech and product team is here to support you as you... build out the data, analysis, and monetization needed to support your goals. We are 100% committed to growing the game and sharing our love of chess with the world! What You'll Do Build out the right marketing channels Own the funnel Grow DAU/MAU Preserve and honor everything that makes chess awesome Recommended Skills 5
years of growth at a major tech, edtech, or gaming company About the Opportunity This is a full-time position We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!) This is open to applicants who can work in the USA
Salary Range:
$150K -- $200K
Minimum Qualification
Brand Marketing & ManagementEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications
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via Ladders schedule_type: Full-timesalary: 80K–100K a year
About Us Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the clear #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess... We are a team of 400+ fully remote people in 55+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 90 million players having chosen Chess.com as their online chess home, and a large base of happy premium subscribers. We are a tech company. A gaming company. A About Us

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

We are a team of 400+ fully remote people in 55+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 90 million players having chosen Chess.com as their online chess home, and a large base of happy premium subscribers.

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 You

You are a multi-language coder, with especially strong skills in Python. You live at the command line. You bring math and data skills, too, and a great appetite for learning. You have built Unix daemons or microservices. You are humble with a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously. You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!

Big Challenges
• 24/7 operation with globally distributed team and multiple stakeholders
• Ten million games played per day
• Algorithms drive our business: matchmaking, cheat detection, gameplay analysis, player ratings.
• Because chess is a highly quantifiable domain, there are many chess-specific research projects to enhance the user experience, from customized learning tools, to puzzle generation, to human-like bot behavior
• Data: lots of it. Largest, deepest dataset in the industry.
• Our anti-cheat algorithms are used to protect the integrity of high-profile events with cash prizes.

What You’ll Do
• Collaborate with researchers on truly creative projects
• Write and deploy production-strength code embodying our latest research
• Be a leader who teaches best practices for deployability
• Build the next generation of technology supporting Fairplay (detecting chess engine use)
• Engineer at scale using microservices and event-driven distributed architectures
• Be part of a small, supportive, mission-driven team

Preferred Skills
• Strong Python skills
• Comfortable with and interested in math, algorithms and statistics
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for working in a fully distributed team
• Experience with SQL
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and writing tests
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Chess player
• Lifelong learner
• Desirable but not required: knowledge of cloud engineering/data-layer technologies such as Redis, Kafka or PubSub

About the Opportunity
• This is a full-time or equivalent position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere
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via Glassdoor posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
REMOTE Design / Product ... Design / Product 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 500+ fully remote people in 70+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy subscribers. We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And REMOTE
Design / Product
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Design / Product

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 500+ fully remote people in 70+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy subscribers.

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 You

You love the process of building things. You have been working on software or gaming projects for years, and it would be a dream for you to use your talent and experience to work on chess. You want to work for a passion-driven company full of warm, funny, brilliant, diverse humans.

What You’ll Do
• Help define and communicate our platform and scalability roadmaps
• Work with our Product and Engineering teams to execute on the platform and scalability roadmap
• Help identify dependencies, constraints, and sequence work as efficiently as possible
• Support the team
• Make sure our Notion -> JIRA -> Done flow is smooth

Preferred Skills
• 5+ years of project and/or technical management in tech or gaming
• Deep expertise in product management and software development lifecycle
• Understanding of chess and current chess products and features on the market

About the Opportunity
• This is a full-time or equivalent position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This is open to applicants who can overlap with EU and US business hours

You can learn more about us here:
• https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-chess-com-s-100-person-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about
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