Principal Economy Designer - Unannounced Project
Job Summary
Job Description
Scopely seeks a Principal Economy Designer for an unannounced cross-platform Strategy/MMO title in Barcelona. Responsibilities include owning the technical, creative, and strategic vision for the game's economy, defining monetization and progression goals, crafting engaging player experiences, and optimizing features to delight millions. The role involves collaborating with various teams to achieve KPI targets, developing design documents, iterating on live game economies, and contributing to roadmap prioritization. Success requires deep game design passion, extensive experience in systems/economy design, MMO experience, and expertise in crafting game features to meet product outcomes using data.
Must have:
- Extensive game economy design experience
- MMO/Strategy-MMO experience
- Progression system & reward structure expertise
- Data-informed design approach
- Mobile game market understanding
Good to have:
- Monetization experience on live games
- System-driven narrative understanding
- Event-driven live operations experience
- Mentoring experience
- F2P strategy game playing experience
4 skills required
Job Details
Description
Scopely is looking for a Principal Economy Designer to join our unannounced project in Barcelona on a hybrid basis.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
We are in the early stages of development on an ambitious, unannounced, cross-platform Strategy/MMO title, creating a team of talented and passionate game makers to join us on this exciting journey!
What You Will Do
You will be responsibele for owning and driving the technical, creative, and strategic visions for best-in-class mobile free-to-play games. As a game economy expert, you will help define and achieve monetization and progression goals of the game while shaping an engaging and rewarding player experience from concept through to completion. You will thrive on crafting and optimizing features that delight millions of players by improving qualitative and quantitative insights and experiences; this includes:
- Be a driving force for smart economy design and slick innovation within the organization
- Partner with product management, production, and the creative teams to develop designs and optimizations that achieve KPI targets
- Craft game structures that support 5+ year player lifecycles
- Develop design documents, economies, progression systems, and feature designs
- Iterate, optimize, grow, and evolve economies and designs for live games
- Contribute to the prioritization of feature and optimization roadmaps, working closely with PMs and GMs to build and grow games into category-leading blockbusters
What We’re Looking For
- A deep passion for games and for making games
- Extensive experience as a Systems or Economy Designer
- Experience working on games in pre and post-launch development environments
- Experience modelling/maintaining complex Economies (MMO, Strategy-MMO, RPG)
- Strong understanding of progression Systems and reward structures
- Demonstrated expertise in crafting game features, systems, and economies toward product outcomes in a data-informed creative environment
- A comprehensive understanding of the mobile games marketplace paired with an unwavering obsession for tracking new trends and evolving your design philosophy
- Ability to simulate and prototype progression systems in Excel
- Incredible energy and the ambition to build the next blockbuster mass-market game
- Outstanding organizational agility - the ability to partner with a variety of specialists and personalities to work towards your goals
- A positive, confident, open-minded, and inspirational attitude
- Highly proactive and action focused
Bonus Points
- Monetization Experience on Live Games
- Understanding of system-driven player-owned narrative
- Relevant qualifications in Computing, Maths, Statistics, and/or Economics
- Strong knowledge of event-driven live operations in mobile games
- Experience in mentoring
- An avid player of F2P strategy games
At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!
About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com.
Notice to candidates: Scopely, Inc and its affiliates will never request payment or ask for financial information as a condition for applying to a position or receiving an offer of employment. All official Scopely, Inc. recruiters only use email domains that end with @scopely.com.
Our official website is www.scopely.com. Please only apply to positions posted on our official website and ensure the recruiter only communicates via the official email domain.
Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact recruiting@scopely.com.
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