Junior Game Economist

3 Months ago • 1-2 Years • Game Economy

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Junior Game Economist at Product Madness, you'll be responsible for designing, analyzing, and managing the economy of top-grossing mobile games. This role involves collaborating with product and game-ops teams to define pricing, balance the economy, and provide actionable insights. You will also contribute to the game economy department by building knowledge capital, evaluating tools, and supporting long-term strategy. Key responsibilities include designing and optimizing game features and events, supporting data analysis, and driving best practices.
Must have:
  • Academic background in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering or another quantitative field
  • Passionate about quantitative analysis and can generate actionable business insights
  • Experience in working in the field of economics (outside gaming) – an advantage
  • Work collaboratively with other individual and teams
  • Good communication skills
  • Capable of presenting insights and ideas in a clear and concise way to large groups
  • Ability to motivate others into action
  • Interested in the mobile games industry or similarly sophisticated customer-facing digital businesses
Good to have:
  • An advanced degree in Economics, Finance, or in another quantitative field
  • Knowledge in SQL
  • Intermediate Python or R
Perks:
  • 25 days per year + Christmas closure + BCN Bank Holidays + Birthday off
  • Yearly Bonus
  • Cigna - Medical Insurance for all our employees
  • GYMPASS - free gym membership

Job Details

Are you interested in how real-world economic theory can be applied in the world of gaming? This is an opportunity for you to design, analyze and manage the economy for top grossing apps and to be a key player in the game economy department within Product Madness. As a Junior Game Economist, you will be essential to the success of our games. You will work closely with our product and game-ops teams to design and balance the economy of our games and to provide the teams with actionable insights. In parallel to this you will also be working in the game economy department, helping to build the craft of game economy in the company; supporting long term strategy, help build and evaluate top class tooling to continuously improve our ways of working.

What You'll Do

Day to Day:

  • Design, configure, monitor and optimize the economy of features and events in one or more of Product Madness games. This will include defining the pricing of purchasable items and collectibles. 
  • Support the product, game ops and data teams with the understanding of the game economy to generate growth and a positive player experience. 
  • Explore segmentation of the players based on behavioral theories and data to recommend new and useful segments to use for our game operations and feature design.
  • Drive game economy best practices and knowledge sharing throughout the company, working with other Game Economy Managers to build this knowledge capital.

What We're Looking For

Requirements:

  • Academic background in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering or another quantitative field
  • An advanced degree in Economics, Finance, or in another quantitative field - an advantage
  • Experience in working in the field of economics (outside gaming) – an advantage
  • Passionate about quantitative analysis and can generate actionable business insights.
  • Knowledge in SQL – an advantage
  • Intermediate Python or R – an advantage

Behaviours:

  • Work collaboratively with other individual and teams
  • Good communication skills
  • Capable of presenting insights and ideas in a clear and concise way to large groups
  • Ability to motivate others into action
  • Interested in the mobile games industry or similarly sophisticated customer-facing digital businesses.

Benefits:

  • 25 days per year + Christmas closure + BCN Bank Holidays + Birthday off 

  • Yearly Bonus

  • Cigna - Medical Insurance for all our employees.

  • GYMPASS - free gym membership

Why Product Madness?

You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world-class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino.  The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United. 

Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.

You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get-togethers and so much more. 


So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?

Our Values

  • People First

    We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.

  • MAD for More

    Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.

  • Champion Together
    We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

  • Globally Inclusive

    We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

  • Customer Focused

    We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.

    Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!

Travel Expectations

None

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Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an ASX20 listed company and one of the world’s leading providers of gaming solutions. We’re licensed in over 300 jurisdictions and operate in over 90 countries around the world. We’re also proud to have a team of over 7000 employees that deliver outstanding results by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity and technology each day. We offer a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, social gaming and casino management systems, but it doesn’t stop there. Despite our global presence and exponential growth, we remain an ideas company at heart that is committed to delivering outstanding results for our customers and players and an unparalleled experience for our employees, who have the opportunity to grow, be inspired and be the best they can be.


Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us to live our mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play – every day.  


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