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Game Designer / Game Economy Manager
4 years ago
Are you passionate about game economy and analytics? If you said “yes!” to these questions, we’d love to hear from you!
We are looking for a Game Designer / Game Economy Manager to join our team at Seriously (Helsinki office). You will be working in one of our game teams and collaborating closely with the Product Lead, Designers, Artists and Analysts in order to design and build our free-to-play game economy, to help understand how our games work and how different customers behave in it.
In addition to the skills and experience listed below, we are looking for a motivated self-starter who is ready to hit the ground running in an energetic start-up environment, where everybody pulls their weight, where every idea is valued, and where, we are just about to conquer the globe.
What does the ride include?
- Design, model, monitor and balance game economy systems, to create a fun and engaging game experience and help drive retention and monetisation improvements
- Work closely with the product lead, designers, artists and analysts on the team, to help identify key areas for balancing, growth and improvement within the game economy
- Recommend rewards and monetization game features to create an economic system to fulfill player needs
- Manage the economy and pricing of virtual goods, maintaining a balance between free content and paid currency
- Build and analyze models simulating the game economy to proactively forecast the results of changes to content
- Investigate different macro economy models for different segments of users
- Plan and use A/B testing to analyze the effectiveness of different game economy strategies
- Share results with the team and company through reports, interactive documents, dashboards, and presentations
What does it take to sign up for the race?
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience in a similar role in the games industry; experience with, free-to-play, social games, casino games, or mobile games strongly preferred
- Strong sensitivity to gameplay and game design in order to build needs and emotions in the context of a game
- An in-depth understanding of free to play games and how their game economies work
- Enjoy working with numbers, formulas, data analysis and excellent skills in Excel
- Experience with data analysis and an understanding of statistical analysis
- A strong analytical and quantitative problem solving ability
- Pride and responsibility in your work and craft
- Fluent in English as it’s our working language
What we also appreciate?
- Bachelor's degree or higher in mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, engineering, or a quantitative field
- Knowledge of SQL and experience querying large, complex data sets
In a nutshell, your background can be in data analytics, game design or programming as long as you feel confident in leading us the way when it comes to good game economy design.
We offer you a steady, transparent, startup-minded working environment, not to mention free apples in the kitchen! This role is a new one for us which means that you can have a huge effect on how it will turn out. We dare to say that we are one of the most successful gaming companies in Finland so with us you surely are working with the best on the field!
If you feel you´re up for the challenge, please apply as soon as possible as we´ll fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate.
About Seriously Digital Entertainment
We are building mobile games that become entertainment properties. We are passionate about great storytelling, unique characters, desperate conflict and unlikely heroes. We are inspired to build brands that can give back to the world.
We are in this because we are driven to make great games. We want to make games that keep you playing, in the blue glow of your phone until the small hours. Games that stay in the back of your head through the day and games that you want to fire up quickly for just one more round during your lunch break.
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