Devoted Studios
Game Development
AssociateProductManagerLiveOps&Economy
“Associate Product Manager - LiveOps & Economy at Devoted Studios. Skills: LiveOps, Economy Design, Product Management, Game Design. Define goals, success criteria, and decision records. Maintain and evolve rules, restrictions, and balance lists”
What You'll Achieve.
Meet design targets; Meet product and market goals; Feed improvements into future roadmaps
Industry & Context.
Creative problem-solving; Turning vision into player-first systems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years in product management for games, experience in LiveOps, hands-on systems or economy design, Proven track record shipping live events or re-runs, iterating from data and feedback, game design fundamentals across systems, balance, and progression, Ability to translate goals into clear specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, Experience defining and tuning economies, rewards, and grind vs reward pacing, Comfortable running structured playtests and turning insights into actionable changes, Skilled at cross-functional leadership with Design, Engineering, QA, Art, and Marketing, Excellent written documentation in Confluence or similar, clear async communication, Fluency with Jira or similar workflows, roadmaps, and backlog prioritization, Data literacy with spreadsheets and basic SQL or analytics tools to evaluate KPIs, Experience preparing stakeholder reviews and securing sign-off on scope and changes, Player-first mindset with UX instincts, ability to reason from player outcomes, Ability to configure event tooling or similar live-ops pipelines across Dev, Staging, and Prod
Nice to Have
Experience on a collectible, card, or ban-list driven game or competitive modes, A testing or experimental design experience for balance and economy changes, Monetization design familiarity, sensitivity to player trust, Comfort coordinating player-facing comms with Marketing or Community, Portfolio or samples that show design docs, change logs, and outcome metrics
What You'll Do.
Maintain and evolve rules
and approve gameplay or systems changes
Review economy and content using playtest results
Define and tune economies against product and market goals
Identify new content or features
translate into user stories
Prioritize the backlog
Prepare materials and secure stakeholder sign-off
Coordinate player-facing communications
Configure and operate live tools
Iterate on features and economies through testing
Manage release readiness
and feed improvements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Product and leadership; Cross-functional leadership with Design, Engineering, QA, Art, and Marketing; Coordinate player-facing communications with Marketing and Community teams; Communicate with people within the company
Communication Scope
Clear async communication; Player-facing communications
Process & Methodology
Backlog Prioritization, Roadmap Planning
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