Senior Product Manager
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.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Shape the core product roadmap and vision in partnership with leadership for the Chess.com experience
- Identify what keeps players coming back, what causes them to leave, and what will delight them next
- Bring ideas and sharpen them with the team; engage with feedback from leadership and peers
- Operate in public using async Slack communication; brainstorm openly, pose sharp questions, make decisive calls with reasoning
- Partner deeply with engineering from early stages through delivery; shape technical approach, write crisp specs, drive execution
- Own engagement metrics, define metrics that matter, build intuition for what drives them, run experiments
- Use AI to prototype, de-risk, and accelerate; build mocks, test flows, and pressure-test ideas before engineering invests
Requirements
- 4+ years in product management with strong consumer product experience
- Shipped consumer-facing products that millions of people use and love
- Excellent product taste, especially in the chess context; understand what a beginner needs vs. a club player vs. a titled player
- High-velocity communicator; communicate clearly and concisely at speed across many projects
- Act as focal point across design, engineering, stakeholders, product peers, and executives
- Operate primarily in writing with high throughput
Preferred
- 7+ years in product management with strong consumer product experience
- Technically fluent; collaborate deeply with engineers and understand systems
- Comfortable reasoning about metrics and connecting engineering discussions back to product and user
- AI-native; use AI daily to prototype, explore ideas, and accelerate execution; build working prototypes as basis for discussion
Skills
Product Management, Consumer Products, Roadmapping, Stakeholder Management, Technical Fluency, Data Analysis, Ai Prototyping, Async Communication, Metrics & Experimentation, Product Specs
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