Product Associate - Game

Colonist; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A digital board game platform is seeking a Product Associate to drive growth by enhancing player activation and retention. This role involves analyzing user behavior and overseeing experiments to improve the platform. Candidates should have over 2 years of product management experience, strong communication skills, and be adept in data analysis. The company offers competitive salaries paid in USD, stock options, and a fully remote work environment, promoting autonomy and innovation.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation

Yearly team offsite

Work equipment provided

Qualifications

• 2+ years of product management experience, preferably in gaming.
• Exceptional attention to detail and high standards for clarity and execution.
• Strong written communication for async collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Research and analyze competitive game modes and features.
• Identify and document UX issues.
• Create mockups and low-fidelity designs to communicate improvements.

Skills

Product management experience

Strong written communication

Data analysis

UX issue identification

Tools

SQL

Job description

Wanted: Colonist Product Associate

Working Hours: We work asynchronously and value outcomes over hours

Location: Fully Remote, Anywhere in the world

Compensation

• Competitive salary paid in USD

• Negotiable range based on experience and location

• Stock (own a piece of Colonist)

About Colonist

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.

About The Role

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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

Requirements

• 2+ years of product management experience, preferably in gaming

• Exceptional attention to detail and high standards for clarity and execution

• Strong written communication for async collaboration; able to write clear specs, experiment docs, and impact reports

• Skilled at turning research into structured, actionable outputs (matrices, experiment plans, reports)

• Experience designing and running experiments, defining success metrics, and conducting post-mortems

• Able to identify UX issues and collaborate with designers to iterate and validate solutions through testing

• Proficient in data analysis, interpretation, and presenting findings

• Strong product intuition, familiar with mobile UX constraints and product lifecycle

Nice to Have

• SQL proficiency

• Ability to read code for deeper collaboration with devs

• Forum/community moderation or support experience

Our Values at Colonist

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.

Benefits and Compensation

Compensation

• Competitive salary paid in USD

• Stock (own a piece of Colonist)

Benefits

• Fully remote team across multiple time zones

• Flexible hours, we work asynchronously and value outcomes over hours

• Unlimited vacation

• Yearly team offsite

• Work equipment provided

Growth

• 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