Chess.com

Performance Marketing

• Own and scale the performance marketing engine across App Store Ads, Android Ads, Meta, YouTube, and other channels
• Build incrementality testing, saturation modeling, and 7-day ROAS and LTV frameworks
• Scale creative production through content, partnerships, UGC agencies, and creator strategies
• Build testing infrastructure to identify winning creative and channels quickly
• Optimize through DSPs and AdTech partners, including LiftOff, AdFuel, and Eyeo
• Manage and grow relationships with advertising partners
• Translate channel performance into LTV- and ROI-backed budget plans with leadership
• Operate transparently through async Slack communication, sharing results and reasoning
• Own budgets, vendor contracts, and ad account setup across Meta, Google, App Store, and DSP platforms
• Maintain clean and trustworthy attribution and tracking using AppsFlyer and related tools
• Collaborate with social media and growth teams
• Adjust spend based on tournaments, viral moments, product launches, seasonal patterns, and other demand cycles

Senior Performance Marketing Manager

Software Engineer

• Work with a multidisciplinary team to design and build the best possible chess experience
• Product Engineering: build features and optimize systems, scaling for a global top 100 website
• Product Engineering: contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions
• Product Engineering: contribute to the team knowledge-base
• AI/ML Engineering: optimize data preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines
• AI/ML Engineering: develop, train, and deploy ML models
• AI/ML Engineering: integrate ML models into Chess.com products
• AI/ML Engineering: build AI applications powered by LLMs

Engineering Internship

Events

• Set Chess.com's live events strategy and build a long-term vision for the live event portfolio
• Define how events can drive audience growth, community, brand, content, partnerships, and revenue
• Create an annual roadmap across competitions, fan experiences, company gatherings, premieres, partner activations, and new concepts
• Serve as accountable event lead for major experiences such as the Speed Chess Championship Finals
• Integrate creative, competition, broadcast, content, hospitality, and operations into unified plans
• Shape event concepts with creative and content leaders and develop budgets, schedules, teams, and production plans
• Own the master event plan, physical run of show, space utilization, programming, activations, and content capture
• Coordinate internal teams and external partners around a shared plan
• Source, evaluate, negotiate, and manage venues, hotels, agencies, fabricators, and production vendors
• Build a trusted global network of venues and production partners
• Build and manage event budgets, track spending, oversee reconciliation, and manage financial and contractual lifecycles with Finance and Legal
• Define success metrics across attendance, fan experience, content performance, community growth, partner value, revenue, and brand impact
• Support live experiences across Chess.com, including premieres, creator tournaments, fan zones, partner events, and courtside chess sets
• Set standards for hospitality, staffing, communications, and overall attendee and crew experience
• Establish tools, roles, approval processes, budget models, production standards, and post-event reviews
• Evaluate new formats, markets, and partnerships such as conventions, festivals, and touring concepts
• Report to the VP, Media & Content and work closely with the sports Commissioner

Live Events Director

2D Artist

• Help build and define Chess.com’s creative vision and visual style
• Help move Chess.com’s art style toward more playful, fun, and challenging designs
• Contribute to product and branding initiatives
• Create illustrative assets that bring the creative vision to life
• Collaborate with product, animation, motion design, and engineering teams
• Build environments, objects, storyboards, characters, clothing, and other 2D art assets

2D Game Artist

Security Engineer

• Lead the vulnerability management program by triaging, reproducing, and assessing security vulnerabilities submitted through Bug Bounty programs
• Work directly with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate security gaps
• Conduct threat modeling with engineering teams to analyze proposed solutions and identify potential attack vectors before implementation
• Manage security incident response by reviewing penetration testing results and SIEM reports
• Translate technical findings into actionable remediation tasks and track resolution through completion
• Optimize security infrastructure by updating Web Application Firewalls and other security systems
• Evaluate and implement security software solutions, including vendor demonstrations and procurement processes
• Provide security consultation and guidance to development teams on secure software development and architecture
• Communicate security updates, progress reports, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Maintain current security policies and procedures