Game Economy Lead
Summary
Designs and balances in-game economies for mobile games, using data-driven models to optimize player retention, monetization, and engagement.
Who We Are:
Gram Games is the studio behind popular titles like 1010!, Six!, Merge Dragons!, and Merge Magic!, with more exciting projects in the pipeline. We are proudly part of the Zynga & Take-Two Interactive family. We do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, giving you an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy, and impact.
At Gram, everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on creating a tangible impact on their team, their work environment, and on the overall company strategy. If you are motivated by autonomy, constant improvement, collaboration, and a sense of belonging, this is the place for you.
Position Overview:
As a Game Economy Lead, you will build and optimize in-game economies that balance engaging player experience with sustainable monetization. Utilizing data-driven models and game design principles, this role focuses on maximizing long-term retention, revenue, and player satisfaction throughout the game's lifecycle.
What You’ll Do:
- Economy Design & Optimization: Design, manage, and optimize complex in-game economies, including virtual goods, currencies, pricing models, and reward systems for events and progression paths. Set ideal pricing to balance long-term player satisfaction with strong monetization opportunities.
- Modeling & Simulation: Build models, predictive simulations, and prototypes to proactively forecast the impact of game features, content updates, and game balance on player behavior.
- Data-Driven Strategy: Define critical metrics, plan A/B testing, and analyze game data to continuously iterate on live features and address economic issues. Ensure balanced revenue growth without sacrificing player engagement.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Game Design, Data, Engineering, and LiveOps teams to deliver impactful features and craft the most efficient experience for players. Provide expert advice and support data-informed decision making across the studio.
What You Bring:
- Proven experience in mobile/freemium games in roles such as economy design, game design, data science, liveops, or product.
- Strong analytical skills and logical thinking, with proven experience in data-oriented projects.
- Strong interpersonal communication, highly collaborative, open-minded, and self-motivated.
- A degree in economics or a related field.
- Advanced level of English.
Benefits
In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry!
- Highly competitive salary
- Private medical care
- Company bonus scheme
- Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
- Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
- Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
- Healthcare cash plan, including dental and optical coverage
- Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!
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We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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