Game Economy Designer

Summary

Join Gameloft, a leading game developer and publisher, as a Game Analyst. This role blends strong economic and marketing knowledge with a passion for analytical game design and the free-to-play model. You will define virtual products and their statistics, identify sales drivers, balance product needs, and provide regular feedback to the development team. Analyze game metrics to pinpoint monetization bottlenecks and facilitators. The position requires a graduate degree in Economics or a related field, mastery of Excel and SQL, and deep knowledge of the free-to-play market. Gameloft offers remote work possibilities, competitive salaries, paid time off, medical insurance, parental leave, an educational platform, employee referral bonuses, and technical support.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in Economics or BA, preferably specialized in Marketing or Strategic direction
• Mastery of Excel
• Advanced understanding of SQL
• Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market, both web-based and on smartphones
• Passion for games on all existing formats
• Fluent written and spoken English, concise writing skills, full working proficiency Ukrainian

Responsibilities

• Define the virtual products and their statistics with the development team
• Identifying the potential sale drivers for the different product categories in the game economy, defining the key points of exposure for those drivers
• Balancing the needs for those virtual products, their relation, life cycle, and their streams of availability
• Regularly provide user feedback and stat/price point tuning to development team based on play-testing, both during game development and post-release
• Analyze the evolution of the metrics you defined to spot both monetization bottlenecks and facilitators

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong sensitivity to gameplay and game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game
• Strong econometrics skills
• Statistic knowledge, able to formulate ratios and indexes specific to each game, identifying specific weaknesses and strengths in its economy design
• Strong marketing knowledge, able to formulate adequate selling strategies to improve the financial performance
• Understanding of client/server architecture and data collecting pipeline and mining

Benefits

• Possibility to work remote in a global product company with talented people
• Competitive salary according to the qualifications
• 21-day paid vacation, 5 days paid sick leave and national holidays as non-working days
• Medical insurance, psychologist
• Parental leave
• Own educational platform with courses, training programs, certifications
• Employee Referral Program with great bonuses
• Technical support and equipment