Economy Designer
Studio Firefly
What you will do
Studio Firefly is looking for a best in class Economy Designer with experience in games to join our rapidly expanding team. As Economy Designer, you will oversee, implement and tune the in-game economy while optimising user experience. You will utilise methodologies of economics, behavioural psychology, and business intelligence to strategically design and maintain a healthy free-to-play mobile game economy. The economy systems you will build and manage are core to game progression, reward payouts, and overall game economy balance.
Responsibilities
- Create desired player experiences through game economy, balance, and feature tuning across the entire game.
- Strong sensitivity to gameplay and game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game.
- Strong marketing knowledge, able to formulate adequate selling strategies to improve the financial performance.
- Analyse player experience of feature tuning and balance through building simulation tools and analyzing player data.
- Assess and apply qualitative and quantitative feedback to improve game balance and experience.
- Statistics knowledge, able to formulate ratios and indexes specific to each game, identifying specific weaknesses and strengths in its economy design.
- Define the virtual products and their statistics with the development team, and understand how each of them contributes to the game dynamics.
- Identify the potential sale drivers for the different product categories in the game economy and define the key points of exposure for those drivers.
- Work collaboratively with other designers and cross-functionally with UX, engineering, and product management on the design and implementation of new game features.
- Create and own the implementation of fun, engaging in-game events and other game content.
- Create clear and complete game design documentation for game balance, content, and features.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in mobile game design, including at least 2 years on games in live ops
- Solid understanding of balancing and tuning designed to create a desired player experience
- Experience writing clear and concise specs, user flows, and feature documentation
- Strong knowledge of free-to-play games in general, on RPG, action & strategy genres specifically
- Excellent communication and critical thinking skill
Your Base
Our production studio is headquartered in Bucharest and we have another sister studio in Cluj, Romania, housing multiple teams across many disciplines including Marketing, PR, Sales and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Bucharest is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create some of the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.
Our World
Great Games Start with Great People! This is an exciting time to join us! Studio Firefly and Flaregames have been leading the way developers think about LiveOps for years now — as a leading LiveOps specialist and Mobile publisher, our teams have created some of the world's biggest, most ground-breaking, and beloved entertainment franchises in the industry. Ask anyone who works within our group what their favourite thing about it is, and they’ll tell you it’s the people. We have world class brands, infrastructure, and resources, but our success comes from people producing greatness together. We are nothing without our employee’s brilliance.
We are looking for talented, passionate people to help us grow our production studio in Bucharest. If you are motivated to learn and grow as part of the fast-paced, global mobile games industry, we would very much like to meet you.
COVID-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.
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