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 the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to shape the core product roadmap and vision, partner deeply with engineering, and drive engagement metrics for their consumer-facing products.
Responsibilities
- Shape the core product roadmap and vision
- Bring ideas and sharpen them with the team
- Operate in public
- Partner deeply with engineering, early and through to delivery
- Own engagement metrics and move them
- Use AI to prototype, de-risk, and accelerate
Skills
- 4+ years in product management, with strong consumer product experience. You've shipped consumer-facing products that millions of people use and love
- Excellent product taste, especially in the chess context. You know what feels good and what doesn't. You understand what a beginner needs vs. a club player vs. a titled player, and you can articulate the differences in what makes each experience great
- High-velocity communicator. 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. You operate primarily in writing, and your throughput is high enough that multiple workstreams keep moving without you becoming a bottleneck
- 7+ years in product management, with strong consumer product experience. You've shipped consumer-facing products that millions of people use and love
- Technically fluent. You collaborate deeply with engineers and understand systems. You're comfortable reasoning about what a metric is telling you and connecting engineering discussions back to the product and ultimately the user
- AI-native. You already use AI daily to prototype, explore ideas, and accelerate execution. You build working prototypes as the basis for discussion
Benefits
- This is a full-time opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
- This role is open to candidates who can work with significant overlap with both United States Eastern and Pacific time zones.
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.