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Game Economy Designer

Permanent contract
Kharkiv
Salary: Not specified
No remote work

Gameloft
Gameloft

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This is a position requiring a mix of strong economy and marketing knowledge with a passion for analytical game design and the emerging free-to-play business model.


Preferred experience

  • Strong sensitivity to gameplay and game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game;
  • Strong econometrics skills;
  • Statistic knowledge, able to formulate ratios and indexes specific to each game, identifying specific weaknesses and strengths in its economy design;
  • Strong marketing knowledge, able to formulate adequate selling strategies to improve the financial performance;
  • Understanding of client/server architecture and data collecting pipeline and mining.

Requirements:

  • Graduate degree in Economics or BA, preferably specialized in Marketing or Strategic direction;
  • Mastery of Excel;
  • Advanced understanding of SQL;
  • Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market, both web-based and on smartphones;
  • Passion for games on all existing formats;
  • Written and spoken English at intermediate and upper level, and full working proficiency Ukrainian.

Responsibilities:

  • Defining the virtual products and their statistics with the development team;
  • Identifying the potential sale drivers for the different product categories in the game economy, defining the key points of exposure for those drivers;
  • Balancing the needs for those virtual products, their relation, life cycle, and their streams of availability;
  • Regularly provide user feedback and stat/price point tuning to development team based on play-testing, both during game development and post-release;
  • Analyze the evolution of the metrics you defined to spot both monetization bottlenecks and facilitators.

Benefits:

  • Join a leading global mobile and video games publisher and developer utilizing the state-of-art mobile technologies and devices;
  • Become a part of the talented international team in a friendly, creative and dynamic environment;
  • Become a true pro in the fast-growing, exciting and innovative video games industry;
  • Be proud to deliver the prestigious products winning the top rankings worldwide;
  • Build up your career with dynamic promotions and world wide opportunities.

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