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Economy Manager

Description

SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day.

As the economy manager of a casual Free-to-play game, you will be responsible for setting the experience and incentive of our players – from the numbers’ side. You will be controlling the difficulty level, rewards, pricing, bonuses and more.

Using economic and behavioral insights, mathematical models, simulations, data analysis and A/B testing – you will be making the game more fun and increase engagement and monetization in the process.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners, game designers and developers in defining new game features as to set healthy incentives and keep the game economy balanced
• Design the structure and parameters you will use to control and configure a feature
• Create configurations for new features, live-ops challenges, in-app-purchase offers, bonus plans and more
• Find useful players’ segmentations for optimizing different KPIs
• Control the pricing in the game – both for game currency and real currency
• Optimize configurations using data analysis and A/B testing
• Balance engagement aspects of user experience with revenue increasing strategies
• Monitor important in-game economic KPIs and maintain a balanced economy

Requirements

• BA/BSC degree in: Economics, statistics, mathematics, physics, business studies or any other quantitative field
• Passion for gaming
• A skill for modeling complex structures
• Knowledge in statistics and probability theory
• Excellent control with Excel
• Good control with SQL (or other data querying language)
• Experience in data analysis – advantage
• R / Matlab / scripting language skills – advantage
• Experience in F2P online / mobile gaming – big advantage