Senior Market Analyst
At Axlebolt we create games played daily by millions of users worldwide. Standoff 2 is one of the company’s key projects — a live product with continuous updates and a large volume of content.
We are currently expanding and looking for a Senior Market Analyst to strengthen our Product Marketing team.
In this role, you will work on both Standoff 2 and new studio projects at different stages of development.
Tasks that you have to work with:
- Conduct market, competitor, and genre research for live and pre-launch products: analyze market trends, mechanics, monetization, content, and positioning.
- Support product teams with research by helping inform decisions on features, game modes, monetization, and target audience based on data and insights.
- Regularly analyze competitors: updates, events, battle passes, retention mechanics, economy, and other product decisions.
- Identify growth opportunities: uncover gaps, unmet user needs, and product patterns impacting key metrics.
- Synthesize data from multiple sources: analytics, market intelligence tools, app stores, communities, and user feedback.
- Work with hypotheses: formulate research questions, define validation approaches, and propose methods for testing.
- Deliver clear insights and recommendations for product, analytics, marketing, and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to research for new projects: analyze market, audience, competitors, and product-market fit.
It will help you with this:
- 3–5 years of experience in product analytics, product marketing, market research, or product strategy within mobile games or gaming.
- Strong experience in market and competitor research with a focus on actionable product insights and impact on decision-making.
- Solid understanding of mobile gaming, F2P, live ops, retention, engagement, monetization, and key product metrics.
- Ability to connect market insights with product metrics (retention, DAU/MAU, ARPU/ARPPU, etc.).
- Ability to work with ambiguity and turn broad questions into structured research plans.
- Experience analyzing competitors across mechanics, economy, audience, and positioning.
- Strong hypothesis-driven thinking, ability to work with data, and distinguish facts from assumptions.
- Strong familiarity with game genres such as shooter, RPG, strategy, and action.
- English level B2+ for working with international markets and sources.
Would be a plus:
- Experience with midcore / competitive / shooter projects.
- Experience working as a product analyst or closely collaborating with product analytics teams.
- Experience working on products at pre-production / soft launch stages.
- Understanding of UX / player research methods: surveys, interviews, playtests, focus groups.
- Experience working with analytics, BI, and market intelligence tools.
- Experience evaluating product hypotheses through metrics, research, A/B testing, or post-release analysis.
You'll find it here:
- The opportunity to influence product development, contribute your ideas and test hypothesesFlexible work schedule
- A culture focused on innovation, creativity and teamwork
- Caring for employees, which you will notice both personally and through useful benefits.
And more about the benefits:
- LMS
- Official registration
- The opportunity to work from comfortable offices in different countries, or remotely
- English Language Courses
- Corporate Library
- Compensation for sessions with a psychologist
- Sports season ticket compensation
- Paid parking
