ChessKid Product Designer, Growth at Chess

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the number one platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. ChessKid.com is the world’s top chess site for kids and the scholastic extension of Chess.com. ChessKid focuses on growing the game for kids and families by delivering fun, educational, and safe experiences. The company is fully remote, with a global team of 600+ people across 60+ countries supporting over 200M players worldwide.

About You

You are a product designer with a strong focus on growth, retention, engagement, and monetization. You enjoy crafting high-impact user experiences for mobile and web, and you use data and experiments to inform design decisions. You collaborate across product, marketing, engineering, and content to influence measurement-driven design that moves key business metrics.

What you will do

• Design high-quality, responsive experiences for mobile and web, focusing on first-time user flows, onboarding, and conversion funnels.
• Optimize top-of-funnel experiences, registration screens, homepage experiments, and app store assets to drive growth and monetization.
• Run rapid, parallel experiments while maintaining a long-term design vision and system consistency.
• Partner with Product Managers, Marketers, Copywriters, and Engineers to translate goals into effective UI and interaction designs that improve engagement and conversion.
• Design landing pages, registration flows, membership pages, and upgrade nudges that improve conversion rates and lifetime value.
• Own designs through implementation, ensuring consistency across platforms and touch points.
• Present design proposals with clear rationale backed by user insights and metrics.
• Contribute to Growth initiatives, including upsell and cross-sell experiments, and support design reviews to elevate team output.

Preferred Skills

• 5+ years of product or UX design experience, with a strong track record on consumer mobile apps and web focused on growth and monetization.
• Proven success improving retention, engagement, and conversion rates through design experiments and data-driven iteration.
• Strong visual and interaction design skills, and deep experience with Figma and design systems.
• A portfolio showcasing mobile and web projects that improved conversion or influenced purchase decisions, such as landing pages and membership flows.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain design decisions clearly to cross-functional partners.
• A sense of ownership, continuous improvement mindset, and the ability to work autonomously in a distributed team.

Bonus Points

• Experience in kids gaming or edtech.
• Experience designing for mobile games.
• A love of chess and familiarity with Chess.com products.
• Experience experimenting with AI-powered design tools, motion design, or UI animation.

About the Opportunity

This is a full-time role. Chess.com is 100% remote - work from anywhere - though preferred timezones for this role are within the Americas, Canada, and Spain. You will join a global design team and contribute to products that introduce chess to kids and families.

How to Apply

Apply now via the job posting on Rippling.