Key skills
Product DesignUser Experience (UX)User Interface (UI) DesignDesign SystemsTypographyLayoutInteraction DesignResponsive DesignFigmaAI-assisted Design ToolsB2B Product DesignEnterprise Product DesignAIClaudeiOSAndroidCommunication
About this role
Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. They are seeking a UX/UI Designer for ChessKid, who will be responsible for designing engaging interactions for web and mobile, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver effective solutions, and contributing to a cohesive design system.
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
Requirements:
- 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