Product Associate - Game

We're building the biggest digital board game platform on the internet. Last year, our players spent 2,466 years playing 45 million games on our Settlers of Catan alternative. We're a fully remote, asynchronous team spread across multiple continents, focused on crafting extremely polished digital board games that people truly love.

As a Product Associate, you will accelerate growth by driving player activation and retention through data-driven insights and a deep understanding of user behavior. You’ll help scale our platform by organizing research, identifying UX issues, designing and running experiments, and transforming complex inputs into clear, testable product initiatives for a game with over 5 million annual players.

Research and analyze competitive game modes and premium features to create product matrices and propose experiments

Identify and document UX issues through structured investigation and competitor benchmarking

Create mockups and low-fidelity designs to communicate experiments and UX improvements

Define success metrics, design and sequence experiments, and estimate impact

Oversee experiments end-to-end: prepare specs, coordinate design and development, QA builds, launch, analyze results, and produce actionable reports

Analyze funnel and experiment data to generate actionable insights

Coordinate cross-functionally to execute experiments and maintain quality

Conduct user testing and playtests to validate solutions and gather insights

Break down complex projects into clear, testable steps for async execution

Report results, trade-offs, and recommendations in structured written formats

SQL proficiency

Ability to read code for deeper collaboration with devs

Forum/community moderation or support experience

Dependability We’re self-driven players who deliver without supervision. When we commit, we deliver.

Ownership We take full responsibility and go beyond our roles to improve Colonist. We act like owners, because through stock options, we actually are.

Clear Communication In a remote environment, written clarity matters. We are direct, structured, and keep each other informed.

Efficient Execution We move fast and focus on impact. Practical solutions that ship are preferred over perfect solutions that don’t.

Continuous Learning We’re curious problem solvers who seek feedback, iterate often, and change our minds when shown better evidence.

Work directly impacts 5M+ yearly players

Rapid learning opportunities and high ownership

Close collaboration with founders and senior product leaders

Freedom to identify problems and propose solutions

Access to company metrics and internal discussions

Expect deep work and autonomy with clear expectations and accountability