Senior Product Manager, Gameplay

Responsibilities

• Shape the Gameplay roadmap and vision. In close partnership with leadership, shape both the near-term roadmap and the long-term vision for Gameplay at Chess.com. From live games, to daily, to bot play, you will own the gameplay experience.
• 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…
• Define success and hold the bar velocity and quality. Frame the problem, partner deeply with engineers and designers, work through what "good enough to ship”. Get product scope first-time right.
• Use AI to prototype, de-risk, and accelerate.
• Build mocks, test flows, and pressure-test ideas yourself. Bring working artifacts into discussions, not just decks. Run AB tests with velocity and build with foresight on configurability.

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