Internship LiveOps Product & Design

The Internship LiveOps Product & Design role at Goodgame Studios involves working on successful free-to-play MMO titles like Goodgame Empire. This full-time internship, lasting 4-6 months, offers a practical entry into game design and LiveOps product work. Interns will learn to conceive, balance, launch, and optimize LiveOps features, events, and economies, integrating player experience, data, and business goals in a live MMO environment.

Must Have

• Support design, iteration, and documentation of LiveOps features, events and gameplay systems.
• Assist in analyzing game data and KPIs.
• Help optimize existing features and events based on data, player feedback and design goals.
• Research comparable games and emerging AI-driven design/analytics approaches.
• Collaborate with designers, developers and product stakeholders.
• Enrolled student at a German university in a relevant field.
• Strong interest in free-to-play games, especially MMO systems, events and economies.
• Confident working with Excel, Google Sheets, or similar tools.
• Very good written and spoken English.

Good to Have

• Curious, analytical mindset and interest in player motivation and data-driven decision making.
• Passion for games across different genres.

Perks & Benefits

• A paid, full-time internship for up to 6 months (compulsory internship as part of your studies can be combined with a voluntary internship).
• Competitive compensation and a healthy work-life balance.
• Fully remote within Germany or working from our office in Hamburg-Altona.
• Direct mentorship and close collaboration with experienced Live Ops and Product Designers.
• A learning-focused environment with real responsibility and exposure to live games.
• Flat hierarchies, agile ways of working and room to grow professionally.

As an Intern in the Empire Family Live Ops Product & Design Team, you’ll work hands-on on long-running, successful free-to-play MMO titles such as Goodgame Empire and Empire: Four Kingdoms. This internship is designed as a practical entry point into game design and LiveOps product work in a real production environment. You’ll learn how LiveOps features, events, and economies are conceived, balanced, launched, and optimized - and how player experience, data, and business goals come together in a live MMO. With a strong mutual fit, there is a clear perspective to continue with us as a Working Student after the internship.

YOUR MISSION

• Support the design, iteration, and documentation of LiveOps features, events and gameplay systems
• Assist in analyzing game data and KPIs to understand player behavior and feature performance
• Help optimize existing features and events based on data, player feedback and design goals
• Research comparable games and emerging AI-driven design/analytics approaches and contribute ideas for Live Ops and player experience improvements
• Collaborate with designers, developers and product stakeholders in day-to-day production work

YOUR PROFILE

• You are an enrolled student at a German university in a relevant field such as game design, economics, mathematics, psychology, computer science, or similar
• Strong interest in free-to-play games, especially MMO systems, events and economies
• Confident working with Excel, Google Sheets, or similar tools
• Curious, analytical mindset and interest in player motivation and data-driven decision making
• Passion for games across different genres
• Very good written and spoken English

WHAT WE OFFER

• A paid, full-time internship for up to 6 months (compulsory internship as part of your studies can be combined with a voluntary internship)
• Competitive compensation and a healthy work-life balance
• Fully remote within Germany or working from our office in Hamburg-Altona
• Direct mentorship and close collaboration with experienced Live Ops and Product Designers
• A learning-focused environment with real responsibility and exposure to live games
• Flat hierarchies, agile ways of working and room to grow professionally

In this role, you'll join the Empire Family Team working on Goodgame Empire, Empire Four Kingdoms and future additions to the franchise. Collaborate closely with our 30+ dedicated professionals, employ your initiative and strong communication skills to seamlessly integrate your ideas into our MMO pioneer games with more than 200 million registered players worldwide and a history of more than 1bn € in revenues. If you're ready to take on this challenge and thrive in a high-target environment, we want you on our team!