Director of College Growth

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the clear #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. 

We are a team of 500+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players having chosen Chess.com as their online chess home, and a large base of happy premium subscribers. 

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 played for your college/university chess team or maybe started your own chess club. You have experience leading successful marketing programs for college students in America, and preferably students abroad as well. You're less than 10 years removed from campus and have excelled and gained leadership experience in that time. You love chess and you want to grow the game, sharing your passion with the world.

What You’ll Do

• Help change the world by leading all things colleges at Chess.com, including our College Chess League (#1 online chess league) and our College Ambassador Program (one of the fastest growing college programs in the United States)
• Lead a growing team of passionate college growth managers who oversee both of these programs and help to expand both throughout the world in 2023
• Guide a network of hundreds of passionate chess ambassadors all over the world to grow the game of chess on their college/university campuses and connect chess to many other areas of campus life 
• Develop marketing and strategy plans to further develop the cultural movement that we are creating and to create fun and viral moments on college/university campuses, both in-person and virtual (esp. social media)
• Work closely with a range of key stakeholders within Chess.com, from our senior leadership team to our field marketing, events, CRM and other groups
• Visit college campuses occasionally, e.g. for big events that we create

Preferred Skills

• 5+ Years of experience in marketing/growth marketing/product marketing, 2+ years managing a team
• You have 2+ years of experience doing marketing/growth programs for consumers, ideally college students
• Experience with ground-swell/guerilla marketing movements and/or ambassador-driven marketing
• Strong bias for action and experience with entrepreneurial ventures and/or scaling up early-stage programs
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Chess player (though it is not required that you are a strong chess player)
• Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This is open to applicants from the USA

You can learn more about us here:

• https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-chess-com-s-100-person-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about

We look forward to meeting you!