Product manager in gameplay

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 250M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community! We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company.

• In close partnership with leadership, shape both the near-term roadmap and the long-term vision for Gameplay at Chess.com. From live games, to daily, to bot play, you will own the gameplay experience.
• Come with your own point of view on what's worth building and why. You don't wait to be told.
• At the same time, engage seriously with feedback from leadership and peers: internalize it, push back where you disagree, and use it to make the work better.
• Work out loud in channels: brainstorm openly, pose sharp questions, make decisive small calls with reasoning attached, and be explicit on what's urgent vs. not.
• Engage with depth and without ego, pull the right people in by name to build alignment.
• Make the most of sync meeting time by taking on the biggest questions.
• Frame the problem, partner deeply with engineers and designers, work through what "good enough to ship”.
• Get product scope first-time right.
• Build mocks, test flows, and pressure-test ideas yourself.
• Bring working artifacts into discussions, not just decks.
• Run AB tests with velocity and build with foresight on configurability.

• You love to play chess and want to help others discover that same passion.
• You understand the full user journey of being a chess player, and different types of players need to experience to find joy in the game.
• You are intimately familiar with the Chess.com experience and want to help further build out the Gameplay ecosystem.
• You have extensive experience as a product manager shipping delightful consumer-facing products.
• You have worked deeply with design and engineering teams to define what great looks like and you communicate regularly and successfully to executive stakeholders.
• 7+ years in product management, 4+ shipping consumer-facing products at scale.
• You've shipped consumer-facing products to large user bases.
• You know how to balance a quantitative understanding of funnels, metrics, and experimentation with a qualitative feel for what makes a delightful user experience.
• You know what feels good and what doesn't. You know what users with different levels of chess skill and experience are looking to get out of gameplay.
• You already use AI daily to prototype, explore ideas, and accelerate execution. You build working prototypes as the basis for discussion.
• You communicate clearly and concisely at speed and across many projects.
• You act as the focal point across design, engineering, stakeholders, product peers, and executives, digging into engineering specifics in one thread then zooming out to exec-level outcomes in the next.
• This role will have most of it’s key stakeholders across the US. While we are flexible with your location, we would require clear and substantial overlap with Eastern US hours.

• This is a full-time opportunity
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)