Careers

Work with us.

Hi, we're VisChess.

We're a young chess company on a mission to make chess better for everyone in the chess community.

We're small and early, so your work shows up in the real world fast.

Who we're looking for

Curious, sharp people who like range. Every role has a main focus, but if you're a builder with an eye for design, or an organiser who can also edit a reel, we want to hear from you. You don't need a chess background, but if you have one, tell us about it.

Open roles

Four internships

Role 01

Founder's Office Intern

You'll work right next to the CEO, see how a company gets built from the inside, and help turn ideas into things that actually happen.

What you'll do

  • Launch new things from scratch: take an idea from a rough note to a plan, a pilot, and results.
  • Help make big decisions faster: research competitors and markets, put numbers together, write short options notes so we can decide in 10 minutes instead of 2 hours
  • Be on the ground: talk to people across the chess community; help run events; find out what people really need
  • Build how the company runs: weekly reviews, dashboards, trackers, and the AI agents that take routine work off our plates
  • Work on what no one else owns: hiring, partnerships, grants and funding applications, content and social media when needed (including replying to comments and messages), and the occasional fire to put out
  • Write the important stuff: proposals, pitch documents, updates

Some weeks are strategy, some weeks are spreadsheets and phone calls. Both matter, and you'll see exactly how a company gets built.

You'll enjoy this if you

  • Love taking ownership and seeing things through to the end
  • Write clearly and speak confidently in English (Tamil is a big plus)
  • Like juggling lots of different things, and staying organised while you do it
  • Enjoy talking to people of all kinds, from young players to senior people in chess
  • Are comfortable with spreadsheets, docs and AI tools

Bonus points for: a technical or creative side, event or community experience.

By the end, you'll have led real projects from idea to results.

Role 02

Product Engineering Intern (AI-native)

You'll build real products that real people in the chess community use, and you'll do it the modern way.

What you'll do

  • Build and ship real products end to end: web apps, internal tools, data work
  • Use AI coding tools as your main way of building, and own the result: testing, fixing, deploying
  • Talk to the people using your tools and turn their problems into features
  • Work with our tech lead on back-end and data work

You'll enjoy this if you

  • Have built and shipped something people used: a project, an app, a site, a bot, anything
  • Can read and reason about code even when AI writes most of it, and can tell when it's wrong
  • Know the basics: Git, one of Python / JavaScript / TypeScript, a database, how web apps work
  • Love figuring things out on your own and picking up new tools fast

Bonus points for: design sense / UI skills, open-source contributions.

By the end, you'll have shipped products that real people use.

Role 03

Filmmaker Intern

Chess is full of drama: tense last rounds, 8-year-olds beating adults, families travelling for hours for one tournament. Help us capture it.

What you'll do

  • Shoot our stories: events, interviews, founder vlogs, behind-the-scenes
  • Handle lighting and sound, from a phone rig to a basic camera setup
  • Edit short-form video for Instagram and YouTube, plus longer videos: cuts, captions, motion text, sound, colour, thumbnails
  • Plan shoots with the team and turn rough ideas into stories people want to watch

You'll enjoy this if you

  • Have videos you shot and edited yourself (any topic) to show us
  • Know at least one editor well: Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut or CapCut
  • Get what makes a reel work: hooks, pacing, sound
  • Are happy filming in busy, real places like tournament halls

Bonus points for: motion graphics, drone or gimbal experience, Tamil copy or voice-over, a love for storytelling and documentary. Have your own camera or gear? That's a plus too, but not needed: we'll have the basics.

By the end, you'll have published films and reels, watched by real audiences.

Role 04

Communication Designer Intern

You'll shape how VisChess looks and feels everywhere: from an Instagram carousel to an event banner to the screens of our tools.

What you'll do

  • Design across everything we make, on one brand system that you'll help grow
  • Social and campaigns: posts (about 3 a week), carousels, thumbnails (with our Filmmaker), and launch campaigns
  • Print and events: posters, brochures, banners, standees, and event branding
  • Help run our social media: plan the content calendar, schedule posts and write captions, together with our Filmmaker and Founder's Office

You'll enjoy this if you

  • Have a portfolio with strong typography, layout and visual judgment
  • Enjoy designing for both screens and print
  • Are fluent in Figma (Canva and Adobe tools are a plus)
  • Scroll Instagram and YouTube with a creator's eye: you notice what works and why
  • Can write a short caption that makes people stop

Bonus points for: motion design, UI/UX for our website and products, Tamil writing, illustration.

By the end, you'll have built out a brand system used across print, social and products.

For all four roles

The details

  • Where: Hosur or Bangalore, on-site. Hosur is about an hour from Bangalore. Applicants from anywhere are welcome.
  • How long: 3–6 months, depending on your availability and how it goes, with a chance to turn it into a full-time role
  • When: starting between December 2026 and January 2027
  • Stipend: up to ₹10,000/month, based on your skills and the work you take on, plus help with stay and food
  • Stay and food: We'll help with both, like meals at the office and a rent allowance. You'll know the exact package before you accept.
  • Who can apply: students, graduates, anyone who can work full-time on-site. Any degree, any background. Final-year students: this can be your final-semester internship or project, and we'll support you with the college paperwork.
  • Everyone is welcome here. Chess is for everyone, and so is VisChess. Whatever your background or college, religion, caste, region or disability, and whatever your gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or neurodivergence, if this work excites you, come build it with us.

What you get

  • Mentorship from the founders, who you'll work with every day, and from experienced mentors in tech, business, design and film
  • Real ownership, in a company that's still being shaped
  • Connections across startups and industry, with regular trips to Bangalore for events and meetups
  • A young team, with social evenings, movie nights, team outings and weekends in Bangalore
  • An experience letter, and a portfolio of real work

Beyond the role

We're a chess company, and chess is part of everyday life here. You don't need to know chess, let alone be a strong player, but we hope you'll fall for the game a little, and want to be part of the chess world around us, not just the work on your desk.

  • Play: quick games over chai, or, if you get hooked, train seriously and play tournaments
  • Run events: help organise and manage tournaments, from the inside
  • Teach: share the game with kids, if that's your thing (regular teaching comes with a higher stipend)

These experiences bring you closer to our vision, and to the people we build for and hope to inspire. We're also small and early, so everyone pitches in on the unglamorous bits, like setting up a venue or packing boards and clocks into a bag after an event. It's part of how a startup like this gets built, and you'll learn more from it than you'd expect.

Whether you just know the rules or play professionally, there's a place for you here. If you're new to chess, curiosity is enough, and you can get into it at your own pace. If you play, coach or organise, that's a real advantage, so tell us about it.

How to apply

Round one takes about 5 minutes. If you're a fit, we'll invite you to the next rounds.

You can apply for more than one role.

Applications by November 24 get priority.

Apply

Got a question? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]