Jobs at Chess.com

Own and scale paid acquisition across Meta, Google, App Store Ads, YouTube, and DSPs for a global consumer subscription platform. Build incrementality testing, saturation analysis, ROAS and LTV frameworks; manage budgets, vendors, attribution, creative testing, and channel strategy. Partner with growth, social, content, and leadership teams to optimize spend around product launches, seasonal events, and viral moments.

Full-time remote engineering internship with Product Engineering and AI/ML Engineering tracks. Interns may build and optimize scalable product features, contribute to architecture and design decisions, develop data pipelines and machine learning models, deploy AI applications, and integrate LLM-powered capabilities into Chess.com products. Applicants should be enrolled students or equivalent bootcamp participants with strong communication, ownership, teamwork, and relevant programming, database, machine learning, or AI experience.

Lead Chess.com’s global live-events strategy and portfolio, including competitions, fan experiences, premieres, partner activations, and company gatherings. Own event planning, budgets, venues, vendors, production schedules, run-of-show integration, hospitality, measurement, and post-event improvement. Align creative, content, broadcast, competition, partnerships, finance, legal, and operations teams across a distributed organization. The role is a senior individual contributor with potential to build an events team.

Create illustrative 2D assets, vector artwork, environments, objects, characters, clothing, and storyboards for Chess.com’s products and branding. Help define a playful visual style while collaborating with product, animation, motion design, and engineering teams. Deliver assets autonomously, match established styles, manage deadlines, and contribute to game-focused interactive experiences.

Lead end-to-end product design for Chess.com’s social and community features across web, iOS, and Android. Design polished interfaces, prototypes, interactions, and cohesive experiences for Home, Profiles, Friends, Messaging, Notifications, and related features. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design to shape requirements, influence decisions, resolve ambiguity, and maintain design quality through implementation. Contribute to design critiques, improve design-system consistency, mentor peers through feedback, and identify product opportunities beyond assigned briefs.

Design and iterate polished user experiences for Chess.com features across web, iOS, and Android. Own projects from problem definition through implementation, create prototypes with Cursor and Claude, apply design systems, collaborate with product and engineering teams, present design rationale, and contribute proactively in a remote environment.

Lead Chess.com’s direct digital advertising sales business, owning strategy, prospecting, negotiations, execution, account management, and revenue growth. Sell web and app advertising solutions, build relationships with brands and agencies, respond to RFPs, and develop market awareness. Partner with Business Development, Product, Engineering, and Data teams to create effective, brand-compliant advertising solutions while delivering positive experiences for advertisers and the chess community.

Own the design and front-end implementation of Chess.com’s internal growth, AI knowledge, agent, and admin platforms. Create polished UI/UX, translate designs into production-ready interfaces, improve interaction and motion quality, and evolve the design system. Prototype rapidly with Cursor and Claude, design AI-native workflows, collaborate across a distributed team, review code, and ship end-to-end frontend experiences.

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.

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

Manage Chess.com’s Italian social media channels: create and publish engaging content, monitor community and trends, analyze performance, run campaigns with marketing and events teams, provide social support, and pilot new formats and platforms to grow audience and engagement.