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 250M+ 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.
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You are an experienced data science leader who translates strategy into objectives, grows the people around you, and works as a strategic thought partner to senior leadership. You are also a strong individual contributor who doesn't just manage the work but does it.
You don't need glamorous problems to do great work — you find satisfaction in getting things right, shipping something that matters, and making the people around you better at their craft.
You've worked in applied data science long enough to know when to push for a more rigorous model and when to ship the first version and iterate. You can walk stakeholders through your findings and turn around and give a member of the team support and feedback that helps them grow. You bring relevant data, graphs, and other evidence to group discussions and can continue to evolve your perspective as new evidence comes in.
You think creatively about problems that don't have established solutions. You’re comfortable building from scratch, inventing new approaches, testing them quickly, and iterating to bring out the right idea. You understand that chess is a deeply data-rich domain, and ideally, you love the game. Familiarity with how chess players develop and improve, how rating systems work, the challenge of catching cheaters, and what makes a chess feature feel right, is knowledge that will compound quickly in this role.
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