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Game Economy Designer (M/F)
4 years ago
Voodoo is a tech company focused on creating mobile apps for a wide audience. Leader in the mobile gaming market and the n°1 company worldwide with the most downloads on the App Store per day.
Our games have over 300M monthly active users and generated 2 billion downloads.
We believe in continuous improvement of processes and sharing best practices. Our culture is based on our strategy : achieve excellence by creating and publishing hit games and hiring great talent !
You will join an organic structure where you will take ownership of your role and contribute actively with new ideas of new projects in a creative and stimulating working environment. You will be part of a small and high performing team, and you will work together in goodwill to achieve best results.
Role
You will design the economy for different virtual products that the game offers, define different metrics that allow you to measure and keep improving.
Your responsibility is to identify and develop the purchase drivers and challenges in the game economy context, create new segments on design, and optimize the pricing to improve the game performance.
Once the game is launched, you’re able to monitor and analyze the collected data and report which are the performing/underperforming aspects of the game economic model.
You will work on multiple games in the portfolio, in different development phases.
Challenges
- Design the economic systems to drive players to play and enhance their game experience
- Design new features that improve long-term player satisfaction and provide more monetization opportunities
- Recommend rewards and monetization game features to create an economic system to fulfill player needs
- Collaborate with product owners, marketing managers, UX/UI designers, analytics team, data scientists and development teams
- Manage the economy and pricing of virtual goods; balance between free content vs. paid currency in the game economy
- Balance customer experience and revenue opportunity for in-game currency and virtual goods
- Investigate different macro economy models for different segments of users.
- Build and analyze simulations and predictive models to proactively forecast the results of changes to content
- Plan A/B testing plans and analyze their effectiveness
Must Have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a quantitative field
- 3 years experience as a Game Designer, Game Analyst or an Economy Manager in a gaming company
- Excellent understanding of F2P game economy and familiarity with different revenue models
- Comfortable with numbers, formulas and experience in data analysis
- Excellent skills in Excel
- SQL\R knowledge
- Experience with visualization tools (Tableau or Periscope)
- Great team-work and collaboration skills
- Willing to relocate to London or Paris
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