Product Manager, Connect

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 200M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the 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 You

First off, you love to play chess and want to help others discover that same joy. Secondly, you are an experienced product manager who has worked in consumer tech and/or gaming to deliver delightful experiences for users. You can think algorithmically and understand how logic flows impact a product, but you also have an excellent intuition for exciting user experiences.

What you'll do

• Execute the product roadmap for social features, platform projects, and other key initiatives
• Manage existing projects and new issues to maximize team efficiency
• Evaluate cost/benefit of a variety of projects to guide effective prioritization
• Design and implement data-driven A/B experiments to understand user behavior, and deliver comprehensive analysis of results
• Create clear specifications and rapidly incorporate stakeholder feedback
• Orchestrate the product development lifecycle, coordinating with design, engineering, and QA teams to ensure excellent user experience

Preferred Skills

• 3+ years experience in product management
• Experience with social features such as friends and messaging
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Ability to manage a lot of projects at once and cut through the noise to ensure optimal delivery
• Ability to collaborate with engineering on technical products

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time opportunity
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

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You can learn more about us here:

• https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about