Design simple and fun interactions for web and mobile platforms for a young and scholastic audience. Own projects from concept to implementation, collaborating with Product and Engineering to ensure design-to-code alignment.
About You
You'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 do
- Design simple, clear, and fun interactions for web and mobile, converting mobile designs to web experiences and vice versa
- Own projects from concept through implementation, ensuring strong design-to-code alignment
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to define problems and ship effective solutions
- Create flows, wireframes, and prototypes to explore and communicate ideas
- Use and contribute to our design system to support scalable, cohesive experiences across platforms
- Present your work and explain decisions using user needs, product context, and data
- Iterate based on feedback, product goals, user insights, and UX research
- Give and receive thoughtful design feedback
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of experience in product design on a consumer-facing product or game
- A portfolio showing strong UX thinking, high-quality UI, and your design process
- Experience 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 users
- Solid understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, and interaction design
- Attention to the details: styling inputs, error handling, hover states, responsive behavior
- Experience 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 team
- You "get" chess without needing to be an expert
Bonus Points
- Interest in chess and familiarity with kids gaming and ed-tech platforms
- Experience with direct-to-consumer and enterprise software platforms that serve different needs for different users.
- Experience designing complex or data-rich products
- Frontend or design engineering experience (web, iOS, or Android)
- Experience with accessibility and inclusive design practices
About the Opportunity
- This is a full-time opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!
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