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Systems Designer

GSN Games is looking for a Systems Designer to join our fabulous team!

About the GSN SuperCasual Studio:
It’s a super exciting time in our SuperCasual Studio! We’re hard at work on our next big game whilst building upon the huge success of our #1 game, Solitaire TriPeaks, and we’re looking for a brilliant Systems Designer to help us with both!

We believe that play matters and that’s why we create genre-leading games that are fun, engaging and rewarding. Joining GSN Games will give you a platform to work on incredible games while working alongside the best people in the business!

What You’ll Do:
As our Systems Designer, you will be responsible for determining and understanding what makes our game appealing and enjoyable for our customers while identifying and developing opportunities to drive purchases. You’ll be responsible for designing and maintaining game economies, including design, balancing and optimization (alongside Monetization). You’ll work closely with the Product, Design and Monetization teams to develop and implement balancing strategies to improve user experience and monetization. You will constantly assess game performance and use the available data to provide recommendations on relevant changes and optimizations. You will:

• Identify the potential revenue drivers in the game economy and outline how they should be maximized
• Manage a healthy economy by adjusting sinks and faucets based on data and monetization strategy
• Create game economy simulations to predict the result and player responses to changes
• Draft and maintain clear and well-presented game design documentation
• Balance all virtual products within the game economy
• Work closely with the design team to maximize all relevant free-to-play mechanics within the game
• Regularly providing user feedback and price point tuning to the development team based on play-testing, both during game development and post-release
• Analyze the evolution of defined metrics to highlight any issues with and/or opportunities for monetization
• Suggest game design improvements or enhance the customer experience
• Build the main progression and economy systems in order to make the game a long-term viable product

About you:
You’ll be an experienced Systems Designer with a passion for analytical game design and both economy and monetization skills - especially in casual, free-to-play mobile games. You’ll be energetic, enthusiastic, well-organized and collaborative in your approach to design. You’ll have:

• A positive, open and personable approach to working within a team
• 4+ experience as Systems Designer, Game Economy Designer or Game Balancer
• Superior level experience with Excel
• Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market, both canvas and mobile
• A highly-tuned awareness and understanding of gameplay and what makes it work
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong econometrics skills and the ability to model problems into quantitative systems, and draw qualitative conclusions out of quantitative data
• The ability to formulate ratios and indexes specific to the game, identifying key weaknesses and strengths in its economy design
• The ability to formulate effective and innovative selling strategies to improve the financial performance
• An understanding of client/server architecture and data collecting pipeline and mining
• A passion for gaming