Product Designer, Courses

Role Overview

You will own the end-to-end design of Chess.com’s Courses product experience. You’ll craft engaging, user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile, ensuring they fit the company’s design system while improving learning and engagement.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design process for the Courses experience (concept → deployment)
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Copywriting, and leadership to define problems and develop solutions
• Create high-quality web and mobile designs aligned with Chess.com’s design patterns and systems
• Design interactive learning experiences that help players learn new concepts via courses and habit-forming spaced repetition
• Present design proposals, explain decision rationale, and incorporate user insights/heuristics
• Build interactive prototypes for rapid testing and iteration using Cursor, Claude Code, and Figma Make
• Ensure design-to-code consistency by collaborating closely with developers
• Identify opportunities to improve the product by proposing features that increase engagement and social interaction
• Provide constructive feedback to peers and support a collaborative, growth-oriented team

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience as a Product Designer on consumer-facing products or games
• Strong portfolio focused on interface and UX
• Solid UI fundamentals: typography, color theory, layout, visual hierarchy, alignment, contrast
• Experience designing responsive, interactive interfaces for mobile and web
• Familiarity with large, established design systems
• Understanding of frontend development processes and how designs translate to code
• Experience using AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, plus prototyping in Figma Make
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for a remote, globally distributed team
• Ability to clearly document and justify design decisions
• Proactive, ownership-driven approach