VP, Events & Commercial

Job description

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 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 250M+ 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: We are hiring a VP, Events & Commercial to lead a talented team that oversees Chess.com's competitive events ecosystem and commercial strategy. This is a dual-mandate role: you own both the product (our online competitive events, broadcasts, and live finals) and the revenue engine (sponsorships, brand integrations, business development and internal alignment with ads and monetization teams). The best candidates will see these as one job, not two. Chess.com runs the most complex and sophisticated competitive chess operation...