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Economic Game Designer
2 years ago
Job Description
You have a passion for paving the road for crypto-based gaming economies and have experience with the traditional F2P economies. You will use economics, behavioral psychology, and business intelligence methodologies to design an healthy play-to-earn game economy. The Economic Designer will be responsible to design and managing all systems that will encourage the player to invest in a game to enhance his experience.
Your main responsibilities will be to:
- Design, prototype, balance, and champion the economic systems to increase our main game KPIs – Retention, Engagement, Monetization, Virality, on game & platform level.
- Recommend rewards and monetization game features to create an economic system to fulfill player needs
- Contribute to game features/systems design that compels and re-engage players
- Collaborate with game designers on new game features to maximize short and long-term player engagement, and provide for monetization opportunities
- Manage the economy and pricing of virtual goods; balance free content vs. paid currency in the game economy
- Balance player experience and progression, both in skills, in-game progression, and content release pacing.
- Request detailed data analysis from the games we operate to validate design choices & drive the development of the upcoming feature/balancing
- Produce reports highlighting through data the problematics of the games & recommend next steps/adjustments/new features to further improve KPIs
- Knowledge of macro, microeconomics, pricing theory, and statistics, especially in the mobile gaming industry and/or live service-oriented products, with the ability to model problems into quantitative systems, formulate ratios and indexes specific to each game
- Keep up to date with market trends and do proactive analysis of economy tuning in relevant competitive products
- Ability to model and simulate planned changes, overall sinks, and sources while anticipating downstream effects with post-launch analysis to ensure expected outcomes are reached
Qualifications
- An avid gamer with a strong understanding of mobile games (online, multiplayer, social, F2P), while a solid knowledge about the endless possibilities of blockchain and NFT
- Extremely robust logical and analytical thinking with the ability to abstract and decompose complex systems and identify key relationships and levers that influence the outputs
- Detail-oriented and capable of providing specific solutions at each step of the process
- Advanced understanding of Excel, SQL, and/or Python
- Design by data approach
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills (oral and written)
Additional Information
Why it's great to work at Ubisoft Danang:
- An international, professional, collaborative, modern, and creative environment
- Attractive remuneration package
- Performance rewards
- Creative & endless fun projects
- Unlimited access to Ubisoft games on Uplay
- Flexible working time
- Premium healthcare insurance
- UBIVERSARY for your working milestones
- Team building, Lunar New year Celebration, Projects celebration
- Beers and treats every Friday (yay!)
- Staff clubs
- Free in-house entertainment facilities (PS5…), coffee, tea, and fresh fruits
Company Description
Ubisoft is committed to enriching players’ lives with original & memorable entertainment experiences. We build worlds that are a playground for the imagination, offering moments of surprise, fun and adventure as well as opportunities for learning and self-discovery.
At Ubisoft, you’ll grow and collaborate with highly talented teams from around the world.
Located in Da Nang, Vietnam, a hotbed for tech and culture also known as one of the best cities to live in Asia, the newest studio focuses on developing a diverse catalogue of fun-packed casual genre instant games.
By bringing the best creative and engineering talents from Vietnam, SEA and the World together, and allowing them to thrive in a dynamic and modern international work and living environment, Ubisoft Da Nang is the place to be to begin your journey in game development or take the big next step in your career.
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