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title: 'Product Associate at Colonist'
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# Product Associate at Colonist

- **Company:** Colonist
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-12-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/colonist/30251508-8f51-4c31-9066-5596d13909bf

## Job 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

## About Colonist

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Colonist builds a free-to-play, digital board game platform, starting with a highly polished alternative to Settlers of Catan, and aims to become the “Apple of digital board gaming.”
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Remote (HQ in Portugal)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Demi Yilmaz (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Computer Games / Digital Board Gaming
- **Target Customers**: B2C – casual and competitive board game players globally (ages 13+)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Make multiplayer games players want to play” and “become the ‘Apple’ of digital board gaming, bringing that same quality to every classic game.”

## Products & Services
- **[Colonist.io](https://colonist.io)**: Free online multiplayer board game platform. Currently focused on a Catan-inspired game, but the roadmap includes adding more classic board games with high polish. Web-based (no download or sign-up required) with a mobile app.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, bootstrapped)
- **Key Metrics** (2025):
  - Yearly Active Players: **3.6 million**
  - Total Playing Time: **60 million hours** (≈ 3,037 years)
  - Games Played: **60 million+**
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No funding information available; bootstrapped from launch.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+36.8% YoY** (from 15 to 22 employees)
  - Web traffic **+30.6% Yearly** (5.1M monthly visits)
  - Team operates across **10 countries**
  - Planning to add new game modes and a mobile-first performance overhaul

## Competitive Advantages
- **Fully Remote & Async**: No fixed hours, minimal meetings, output-driven culture.
- **Ownership Culture**: Equity/profit sharing? The careers page says “You will own a piece of Colonist.”
- **Transparency**: All metrics, roadmap, and discussions are accessible to every team member.
- **Fast Feedback Loop**: Work ships within days to a user base of 100K+ active players.
- **Niche Focus**: Obsessive attention to quality on a single title before expanding – “Apple-like” approach to digital board games.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the platform with additional classic board games (beyond Catan).
- Improve mobile-first performance and user experience.
- Scale the team while preserving remote, async culture.
- Continue to grow the active player base and engagement metrics.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Modern-day gaming guild” – fully remote, asynchronous, self-motivated, output-driven. No unnecessary meetings.
- **Flexibility**: Choose your own hours, work from anywhere.
- **Growth**: “Level up on your own terms” with high-stakes challenges. Take ownership of your career development.
- **Hiring Process**: Unique, hands-on process including a **paid trial day** working on real projects to evaluate fit.
- **Notable Perks**: 100% remote, transparent decision-making, ownership stake, fast shipping to millions of players.
- **Team**: 22 people across 10 countries; 38% technical roles. Strong async communication skills are a must.

## Sources
1. [Colonist Careers](https://colonist.io/careers) – culture, values, hiring process, yearly stats
2. [Built In – Colonist](https://builtin.com/company/colonist) – overview, perks, offices, and culture summary
3. [LinkedIn – Colonist](https://www.linkedin.com/company/colonist) – employee count, growth, locations, tech stack
4. [Colonist About Page](https://colonist.io/about?style=fullscreen) – product description and founder info

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