Jobs at Chess.com

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.

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.

The SVP, Commercial Strategy at Chess.com will lead the B2B revenue efforts, aligning product, content, and partnerships to create scalable revenue opportunities and enhance the user experience.

Lead and grow a hands-on user research function to observe real players, synthesize insights, drive product improvements end-to-end, evangelize player empathy across teams, and use AI to accelerate research and prototyping while managing a small team and partnering with senior leadership.

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.

Analyze player behavior and drive product innovation through data-driven insights. Collaborate with teams to design and evaluate experiments, maintaining data quality and delivering meaningful insights.

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.

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.