Economy & Balancing Game Designer – Casual HTML5 Games

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Create and balance the economic, progression, and reward systems for casual games, starting from initial design meetings through to live operations.

• Take responsibility for the revenue outcomes of the designed economies.

• Develop and manage economy models, balancing sheets, and simulations for each game title.

• Model and simulate adjustments prior to release.

• Utilize player data and A/B testing to pinpoint friction points, progression bottlenecks, and monetization prospects.

• Illustrate how proposed balancing changes impact retention and revenue.

• Design motivation loops and cohesive LiveOps event ecosystems.

• Clearly articulate design rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations to both the team and the studio.

• Assume responsibility for a title’s economy when transitioning between projects.

• Investigate the economic structures, pacing, and pricing of comparable games.

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary agile team on new titles, live games, tools, and scalable processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in designing, balancing, and managing the economies of successful, released free-to-play games on mobile and/or HTML5, particularly in casual or puzzle genres.

• Comfortable taking accountability for a title’s KPIs and justifying decisions made.

• Proficient in advanced spreadsheet and modeling skills, including balancing, simulation, and forecasting models.

• Proficient use of AI tools to expedite model creation and analysis.

• Strong analytical skills with the capability to convert data into actionable design modifications.

• In-depth understanding of player motivation, retention mechanics, LiveOps, and monetization design.

• Empathetic towards the casual audience's preferences and limitations.

• Independent and proactive, with the ability to swiftly familiarize oneself with a new game and its audience.

• Excellent command of English.

• Experience in working within remote, multidisciplinary teams.

• Consistent habit of benchmarking and knowledge of leading games’ economies in relevant genres.

• A CV and, where applicable, a portfolio showcasing economy models, balancing sheets, launched games, design documents, or examples reflecting thought processes regarding progression, monetization, and player experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Join an international team of over 80 professionals hailing from nearly 20 different countries.

• Collaborate closely with some of the largest upcoming game platforms worldwide on high-quality casual games enjoyed by millions of players.

• Competitive salary package.

• Flexible remote working environment.

• A very open, informal, and international company culture where every individual can make a significant impact.