ChessKid Product Designer, Growth

The Product Designer will craft high-quality, responsive designs for mobile and web platforms, focusing on user experience and monetization. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize onboarding, engagement, and conversion flows.

Responsibilities

• Craft high-quality, responsive designs for both mobile and web native platforms, focusing on first-time user experience, user growth and monetization.
• Design and optimize top-of-funnel experiences, conversion flows, and customer retention initiatives.
• Balance rapid, parallel experiments while keeping a long-term design vision in mind.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Marketers, Copywriters, Engineers, and other stakeholders to translate goals and requirements into effective UI designs that enhance user engagement and conversion.
• Design landing pages, top-level interfaces, registration flows, product marketing integrations, and sales pages with a focus on optimizing key performance metrics such as conversion rates, user retention, and lifetime value (LTV).
• Create and iterate on designs that improve user onboarding, engagement tactics, upgrade nudges, and premium membership flows to maximize user retention and renewals.
• Own your designs from initial concept through to implementation, ensuring consistency across platforms and touch points.
• Present your design proposals and clearly articulate your decisions, backing them up with contextual rationale, user insights, and best practices.
• Collaborate on Growth initiatives that focus on onboarding and Monetization strategies, including upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
• Help your design teammates by providing constructive feedback in design reviews and sharing insights to improve overall team output.

Requirements

• Passion for creating impactful user experiences with a focus on growth, user retention, engagement, monetization, and renewal strategies.
• 5+ years of professional design experience focused on consumer mobile applications and web with a proven track record of driving improvements in user retention, engagement, monetization, and conversion rates.
• Online portfolio showcasing mobile and web design work, with particular emphasis on projects that improved conversion rates and influenced purchasing decisions.
• Ability to take ownership of initiatives and influence core marketing and monetization strategies through effective design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain design decisions and present data-backed solutions.
• Deep knowledge of Figma and experience working within established design systems.

Key Skills

• Strong visual design skills combined with a solid understanding of UX principles, particularly in the context of Growth and Monetization Design.
• Experience in kids gaming/edtech.
• Experience designing for mobile games.
• A love for the game of Chess and knowledge of their product.
• Experimenting with AI-powered design tools to build hifi prototypes to test and present with.
• Motion design and UI animation skills.
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit.

Benefits

• Full-time opportunity.
• 100% remote with preferred timezones for this role being within the Americas, Canada, and Spain.