Game Economy Designer

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

📋 Description

• Economic balance: Configuring the acquisition and expenditure of all types of resources.

• Monitoring the value of in-game currencies from Tutorial to Late Game.

• Progression design: Calculating experience, adjusting game pace, and session duration.

• Managing limits and creating motivation for players to return to the game regularly.

• Monetization: Setting up a unified economy.

• Price balancing for a hybrid IAP + Ads model.

• Technical game design: Writing production-ready GDD for developers, detailing limits, data formats, and analytics requirements.

• Audit: Maintaining a unified knowledge base on project economics.

• Identifying and resolving vulnerabilities in game logic and balance.

• Building and sustaining live economic models: progression formulas, difficulty curves, simulations.

• AI balancing.

• Analyzing playtest data and behavioral metrics, identifying imbalances; justifying each decision with data.

• Creating production-ready documentation for developers (limits, data formats, analytics requirements).

• Collaborating with game design, development, and analytics; implementing within the game designer’s vision; proposing improvements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as an economist in mobile F2P games, with expertise in configuring Core and Meta cycles.

• Essential experience working with games in the operational phase (LiveOps).

• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets (complex formulas, pivot tables, arrays, indexes).

• Ability to construct mathematical models that are easy to read, maintain, and modify.

• Understanding of probability theory (Gacha, item drop rates), combinatorics, and principles for calculating progression curves.

• Familiarity with retention metrics (Retention, Session Length) and monetization (LTV, ARPDAU, Conversion Rate), as well as how balance impacts player behavior.

• Knowledge of SQL for independent data retrieval and analysis.

• Additional requirement: AI-Native Workflow: AI for you is not just chats and prompts but a tool that significantly accelerates work processes.

• Advanced Python skills (Pandas/NumPy) for complex calculations.

• Experience in visual modeling of systems.

• Advanced SQL proficiency for complex analytics.

• Ability to calculate whether a player will have a surplus or shortage of in-game currency after six months (LTV 180+), even at the concept stage of a new feature.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefit café: Freedom of choice - a personal budget for insurance, training, gym, or anything that supports your balance.

• Achievement bonuses: We value the strive for excellence and teamwork, recognizing notable results, initiative, and real impact.

• Remote First: Work from anywhere in the world; remote work is the standard, not the exception.

• Business impact: Minimal bureaucracy, maximum freedom of action, and the opportunity to implement your ideas.

• Career Boost: Development of professional expertise, training, internal seminars, strategic sessions.

• Culture Driver: An atmosphere of a unified team where success is the result of collective effort.