Media/Thumbnail Designer

Media/Thumbnail Designer

REMOTE Chess

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 700+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 150M+ 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.

About You

You love design, YouTube, and content. You are an excellent designer, able to delight audiences with fun, clickable thumbnails. You have a strong sense of storytelling and are able to take a video, title, and brief, and create a compelling thumbnail that captures the content and why viewers both inside and outside of the chess community will love to watch the piece. You are able to implement a unique style and develop a brand identity for Chess.com’s thumbnails that is consistent with the company voice and brand. You love the analytics and are able to assess performance on the fly and modify designs when content isn’t performing well. You are a strong team member and enjoy collaborating remotely.

What You’ll Do

• Design thumbnails for Chess.com, starting with original content on YouTube, and possibly extending to other publications.
• Optimize thumbnails for Chess.com’s best-performing archival content.
• Develop a distinct brand for Chess.com’s thumbnails.
• Assess media performance and refine designs and strategies to optimize for evolving algorithms and public tastes.
• Collaborate with Chess.com’s creative team on said media.
• Stay engaged with the latest trends in thumbnails and identify new opportunities.
• Creatively incorporate Chess.com product and brand designs into thumbnails.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of design experience
• Experience designing successful thumbnails for YouTube
• Excellence in Photoshop
• You get chess
• Excellent communicator and collaborator
• Lifelong learner
• Experience with tools like AE, Blender, or AI images (optional)

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

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

We look forward to meeting you!