📍 Zoetermeer
Mentor Bio
Alex Rietveld is a product manager and game designer for Miniclip Netherlands (formerly known as Gamebasics). He has been working for the Zoetermeer based mobile games studio for over a decade. Throughout the years he has fulfilled many different roles at the company: developer, scrum master, game designer, producer and product manager.
Besides that, he is also a member of the works council (ondernemingsraad) where he advises studio management & HR about employee interests.
Current role and activities
Product Manager & Game Designer at Miniclip Nederland.
What you can learn from him
- Organizing your own work and the work of your team.
- How to research competitors in the mobile games market.
- How to manage different stakeholders.
- How to pitch ideas for new features.
- Applying the Scrum framework in a game studio.
- An insider’s perspective of how a professional games studio could and should be run.
Alexander’s First Advice
Actively use a digital to-do list for managing your own tasks and priorities. It can really make a huge difference and help provide an overview of what you should be doing and what you should be saying no to.