Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world, and they are seeking a UX/UI Designer for ChessKid, the top chess site for kids. The role involves designing engaging and user-friendly interactions for both web and mobile platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and owning projects from concept to implementation.
Responsibilities
- Design simple, clear, and fun interactions for web and mobile, converting mobile designs to web experiences and vice versa
- Own projects from concept through implementation, ensuring strong design-to-code alignment
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to define problems and ship effective solutions
- Create flows, wireframes, and prototypes to explore and communicate ideas
- Use and contribute to our design system to support scalable, cohesive experiences across platforms
- Present your work and explain decisions using user needs, product context, and data
- Iterate based on feedback, product goals, user insights, and UX research
- Give and receive thoughtful design feedback
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in product design on a consumer-facing product or game
- A portfolio showing strong UX thinking, high-quality UI, and your design process
- Experience working with, contributing to, and scaling a design system (including tokens and pattern libraries)
- B2B / enterprise product design experience, particularly designing for teachers, school districts, or institutional users
- Solid understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, and interaction design
- Attention to the details: styling inputs, error handling, hover states, responsive behavior
- Experience with Figma and using AI-assisted design tools (e.g., Figma Make, Cursor, Claude Code)
- Strong communication skills - written and verbal, in a remote, distributed team
- You 'get' chess without needing to be an expert
- Interest in chess and familiarity with kids gaming and ed-tech platforms
- Experience with direct-to-consumer and enterprise software platforms that serve different needs for different users
- Experience designing complex or data-rich products
- Frontend or design engineering experience (web, iOS, or Android)
- Experience with accessibility and inclusive design practices
Company Overview
Chess.com is an online community for chess players to learn and discuss strategy and play with others in real-time. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.chess.com.