product manager for chess gaming

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the leading platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. It serves the global chess community with products, content, and tools for more than 250 million chess players worldwide.

• Shape the core product roadmap and long-term vision for the Chess.com experience;
• Identify what drives player retention, causes churn, and delights players;
• Bring product ideas, incorporate feedback, and contribute an informed perspective to the shared vision;
• Communicate decisions asynchronously across time zones through Slack;
• Build alignment by engaging the right stakeholders and addressing the biggest questions in sync meetings;
• Partner with engineering from early technical approach through delivery;
• Write clear specifications, communicate tradeoffs, unblock work, reprioritize, and ship;
• Define key engagement metrics, use data to prioritize, run experiments, and improve performance;
• Build mocks, test flows, and pressure-test ideas with AI before engineering investment.

• 4+ Years of product management experience with strong consumer product experience;
• Shipped consumer-facing products used and loved by millions of people;
• Excellent product taste, especially in the chess context;
• Understands the needs of beginners, club players, and titled players and can articulate differences in great experiences;
• Communicates clearly and concisely across design, engineering, stakeholders, product peers, and executives;
• Comfortable working primarily in writing across multiple concurrent workstreams;
• Nice to have: 7+ years in product management with strong consumer product experience, technical fluency, daily AI use for prototyping and execution.

• 100% Remote with work from anywhere;
• The role is open to candidates who can work with significant overlap with both United States Eastern and Pacific time zones.