Senior Product Manager, Chess AI

Responsibilities

• Shape the AI/ML roadmap and vision. In close partnership with leadership, shape both the near-term roadmap and the long-term vision for AI/ML at Chess.com, helping our users learn the game, improve faster, and deepen their relationship with chess. Expand the role of AI in products like Game Review, Play Coach, and…
• Bring ideas and sharpen them with the team. Come with your own point of view on what's worth building and why. You don't wait to be told. At the same time, engage seriously with feedback from leadership and peers: internalize it, push back where you disagree, and use it to make the work better. The vision is built…
• Operate in public. As a globally remote company spanning many time zones, async slack communication is how decisions get made. Work out loud in channels: brainstorm openly, pose sharp questions, make decisive small calls with reasoning attached, and be explicit on what's urgent vs. not. Engage with depth and without…
• Partner deeply with engineering, early and through to delivery. Shape the technical approach alongside engineering partners, write specs that are crisp on intent and honest about tradeoffs, and be a force driving through to execution. Unblock, reprioritize, and ship.
• Define success and hold the quality bar, even when there's no precedent. Frame the problem, partner with engineers and researchers to set evaluation criteria, and make calls with incomplete data that you revisit as you learn. Work through what "good enough to ship” looks like and how to meld qualitative product…
• Use AI to prototype, de-risk, and accelerate.
• Build mocks, test flows, evaluate models, and pressure-test ideas yourself before engineering invests. Bring working artifacts into discussions, not just decks.

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