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 185M+ 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.

ChessKid.com is the world’s #1 chess site for kids 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.

About You

You love the creative process where you bring your own ideas while also incorporate ideas from others into your art. You're imaginative to the point where an audience can look at your work and immediately see the fun, and yet you're also practical in recognizing simplicity helps focus product experience into a more effective learning tool. You like kids, teaching, or building light-hearted worlds that help audiences want to improve both inside and outside the game.

What you'll do

Long-term, you'll work with the team to build onto the creative vision and visual style, transforming ChessKid into a more engaging learning environment for kids.

Day to day you'll create character and environmental assets that bring the vision to life and joy to kids as they continue on their chess journey. You'll collaborate with product, animation, and engineering to see these assets come to life.

Preferred Skills

• Excellent 2D Art skills (i.e. you live in Photoshop and the rest of the Adobe suite)
• General mastery of a range of art assets including but not limited to: environments, objects, storyboards, character assets and clothing
• Superb imagination and creativity within the direction of a creative world and interactive product
• Ability to match existing art styles & work in multiple different styles, for both illustration and vector art
• 3+ years of experience in a gaming environment
• Ability to pick up new technical skills and concepts quickly
• Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Great collaboration across a small team pod and larger product team, owning pipeline deliverables autonomously with some support

Nice to Have

• You have a passion for games and excitement around what bringing chess to kids means
• You're versatile, flexible, and willing to do what's needed in a fast-moving environment
• Knowledge of animation pipeline and/or how to structure 2d assets for animation
• You’ve got a portfolio that demonstrates the needs of the role well

About the Opportunity

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