
Chess.com
Orem, UT
Online platform for playing and learning chess
About
Chess.com operates the world's largest online chess platform where users play live games, solve puzzles, take lessons from grandmasters, and join tournaments. It serves over 235 million members with tools for improving tactics, strategy, and analytical skills. The freemium model supports daily millions of games and a global community.
Tech stack
Python, Kubernetes, GCP, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Prometheus, Datadog, Go, Docker, Azure, Grafana, Bash, SQL
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12Leads Chess.com’s direct digital advertising sales business across web and mobile, from strategy and prospecting through execution and account management. The role requires 8+ years of digital ad sales experience, strong agency and brand relationships, and the ability to build a revenue-generating business.
Own and grow the Dr. Wolf chess-learning product end to end, combining product strategy, user research, business metrics, and hands-on iOS and Android development with agentic AI coding tools. The role suits an independent builder who cares deeply about chess education.
Senior Elasticsearch Engineer owning full lifecycle of massive-scale search and analytics platform at Chess.com: capacity planning, architecture, performance tuning, incident response, and Elasticsearch-to-OpenSearch migrations on bare-metal Kubernetes. Requires 7+ years operating Elasticsearch at scale with deep internals knowledge.
Senior Conversion Copywriter responsible for high-impact onboarding, upsell, lifecycle, and paid acquisition copy that drives monetization and engagement for Chess.com's 250M+ users. Requires 6+ years conversion copy experience, strong portfolio with proven lift, data-driven testing mindset, and ability to maintain warm, clever brand voice.
Leads the visual evolution of Chess.com across brand campaigns, product launches, advertising, partnerships, and social channels. The role requires exceptional design craft, art direction, strategic thinking, and 8+ years of brand, marketing, or creative leadership experience.
Freelance translator converting English chess content, UI, and marketing materials into high-quality Tamil. Requires native fluency in both languages, professional translation experience, and chess knowledge.
Lead data science efforts at Chess.com, managing a lean team while building algorithms and models for fair play detection and product features. Requires 5+ years experience, strong Python/SQL skills, ML fundamentals, and proven leadership/mentorship ability.
Senior Product Manager shaping Chess.com's core product roadmap and vision, driving engagement metrics, and partnering with engineering to ship consumer features that delight millions of chess players worldwide.
Manages Chess.com's Italian social channels by creating localized content, engaging the chess community, analyzing performance, and supporting campaigns. Requires fluency in Italian, strong social media experience, chess knowledge, editing skills, and cultural awareness.
Design and operate multi-regional infrastructure for a high-traffic global gaming platform, owning on-call, monitoring, automation, and hybrid cloud migration to ensure reliability at massive scale.
Senior PM leading AI/ML roadmap and product development at Chess.com. Partner with engineering to ship consumer-facing LLM and ML features like personalized coaching and human-like bots.
Analyze player behavior data for ChessKid to drive growth and monetization through insights on retention, engagement, and experiments. Collaborate with product and business teams using Amplitude, BigQuery, SQL, and Python.