UX/UI Designer - ChessKid

About UsChess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. ChessKid.com is the world’s #1 chess site for kids with over 14 Million users and the scholastic extension of Chess.com. ChessKid is all about growing the game of chess for kids around the world. ChessKid is fun, educational, and dedicated to being a safe place for kids to learn and play chess. We are a team of 700+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 165 million players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the chess community!We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.About YouYou're a product designer with a strong eye for UI and a solid grasp of user experience. You care about making things clear, usable, and well-crafted, especially for a young and scholastic audience. You're comfortable working across problem types, new features, flow improvements, or patterns that need to scale. You zoom in to refine details and zoom out to see how your work fits the broader product. You communicate your thinking clearly, collaborate well cross-functionally, and own your work from concept to code.You are a team player. You know to check your ego at the door. You would also love nothing more than to help people around the world discover the fun of chess!What you'll doDesign simple, clear, and fun interactions for web and mobile, converting mobile designs to web experiences and vice versaOwn projects from concept through implementation, ensuring strong design-to-code alignmentWork closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to define problems and ship effective solutionsCreate flows, wireframes, and prototypes to explore and communicate ideasUse and contribute to our design system to support scalable, cohesive experiences across platformsPresent your work and explain decisions using user needs, product context, and dataIterate based on feedback, product goals, user insights, and UX researchGive and receive thoughtful design feedbackWhat we're looking for3+ years of experience in product design on a consumer-facing product or gameA portfolio showing strong UX thinking, high-quality UI, and your design processExperience working with, contributing to, and scaling a design system (including tokens and pattern libraries)B2B / enterprise product design experience, particularly designing for teachers, school districts, or institutional usersSolid understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, and interaction designAttention to the details: styling inputs, error handling, hover states, responsive behaviorExperience with Figma and using AI-assisted design tools (e.g., Figma Make, Cursor, Claude Code)Strong communication skills - written and verbal, in a remote, distributed teamYou "get" chess without needing to be an expertBonus PointsInterest in chess and familiarity with kids gaming and ed-tech platformsExperience with direct-to-consumer and enterprise software platforms that serve different needs for different users. Experience designing complex or data-rich productsFrontend or design engineering experience (web, iOS, or Android)Experience with accessibility and inclusive design practicesAbout the OpportunityThis is a full-time opportunityWe are 100% remote (work from anywhere!---You can learn more about us here:https://www.chesskid.com/https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-togetherhttps://www.chess.com/aboutOriginally posted on Himalayas

About UsChess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. ChessKid.com is the world’s #1 chess site for kids with over 14 Million users and the scholastic extension of Chess.com. ChessKid is all about growing the game of chess for kids around the world. ChessKid is fun, educational, and dedicated to being a safe place for kids to learn and play chess. We are a team of 700+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 165 million players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the chess community!We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.About YouYou're a product designer with a strong eye for UI and a solid grasp of user experience. You care about making things clear, usable, and well-crafted, especially for a young and scholastic audience. You're comfortable working across problem types, new features, flow improvements, or patterns that need to scale. You zoom in to refine details and zoom out to see how your work fits the broader product. You communicate your thinking clearly, collaborate well cross-functionally, and own your work from concept to code.You are a team player. You know to check your ego at the door. You would also love nothing more than to help people around the world discover the fun of chess!What you'll doDesign simple, clear, and fun interactions for web and mobile, converting mobile designs to web experiences and vice versaOwn projects from concept through implementation, ensuring strong design-to-code alignmentWork closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to define problems and ship effective solutionsCreate flows, wireframes, and prototypes to explore and communicate ideasUse and contribute to our design system to support scalable, cohesive experiences across platformsPresent your work and explain decisions using user needs, product context, and dataIterate based on feedback, product goals, user insights, and UX researchGive and receive thoughtful design feedbackWhat we're looking for3+ years of experience in product design on a consumer-facing product or gameA portfolio showing strong UX thinking, high-quality UI, and your design processExperience working with, contributing to, and scaling a design system (including tokens and pattern libraries)B2B / enterprise product design experience, particularly designing for teachers, school districts, or institutional usersSolid understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, and interaction designAttention to the details: styling inputs, error handling, hover states, responsive behaviorExperience with Figma and using AI-assisted design tools (e.g., Figma Make, Cursor, Claude Code)Strong communication skills - written and verbal, in a remote, distributed teamYou "get" chess without needing to be an expertBonus PointsInterest in chess and familiarity with kids gaming and ed-tech platformsExperience with direct-to-consumer and enterprise software platforms that serve different needs for different users. Experience designing complex or data-rich productsFrontend or design engineering experience (web, iOS, or Android)Experience with accessibility and inclusive design practicesAbout the OpportunityThis is a full-time opportunityWe are 100% remote (work from anywhere!---You can learn more about us here:https://www.chesskid.com/https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-togetherhttps://www.chess.com/aboutOriginally posted on Himalayas