# Product Associate

## Details

- **Company:** [Colonist](https://hitmarker.net/companies/colonist.md)
- **Location:** Remote \(Anywhere\)
- **Contract type:** Full Time
- **Level:** Junior \(1–2 years\)
- **Tags:** Product Management, Data Analysis, UX Design, Research, Project Management
- **Posted:** 2025-12-09
- **Apply:** [View and apply on Hitmarker](https://hitmarker.net/jobs/colonist-product-associate-4676520)

## Description

**Wanted:** Colonist Product Associate

**Working Hours:** We work asynchronously and value outcomes over hours

**Location:** Fully Remote

**Compensation:**

- Competitive salary paid in USD
- Negotiable range based on experience and location

**About Colonist**

We're building the biggest digital board game platform on the internet. Last year, our players spent 3,037 years playing 60 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**

- AI first-mindset. We see AI fluency as a real multiplier
- 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.

**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.

**Why Colonist**

- Your work ships to 3,6M+ yearly active players
- Async culture; deep work, no performative meetings
- Unlimited vacation, yearly team offsite, full work equipment
- Budget to experiment with any AI tool you want
- Access to all company metrics and internal discussions