Gameloft Barcelona is hiring a new Game Economy Designer! Join the game!
Company Description
A leading digital and social game publisher, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms and with an audience of 157 million monthly users offers via Gameloft Advertising Solutions a unique level of visibility and involvement to advertisers. Gameloft operates its own established franchises such as Asphalt®, Order & Chaos, Modern Combat and Dungeon Hunter and also partners with major rights holders including Universal, Illumination Entertainment, Disney®, Marvel®, Hasbro®, Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel® and Ferrari®.
Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries and employs 6,000 people worldwide. Gameloft is a Vivendi company.
Job Description
As
a Game Economy Designer, your responsibility is to understand how a
game works as a service for its customers and project how customers
behave. You are expected to improve each game’s financial performance by
identifying and developing the purchase drivers in the game economy
context. You will also provide constant data-driven recommendations on
design, tuning and pricing.
To do this pre-release, you’re able to design the virtual products a game will offer, define metrics that allow you to individually measure their impact on a given title, and work closely with the development team to see designs refined and metrics implemented.
Once the game is launched, you’re able to analyze the collected data and report which are the performing/underperforming aspects of the game economic model, why, and provide solutions to Gameloft management.
Main responsibilities:
- Defining virtual products and their statistics with the development team, and project how each change modifies game dynamics.
- Identifying the potential sale drivers for the different product categories in the game economy, defining the key points of exposure for those drivers.
- Balancing virtual products – identifying needs, relationships, life-cycle and streams of availability.
- Managing pricing – create specific price point roles and implement selling strategies for key consumers.
- Regularly providing user feedback and stat/price point tuning to the development team based on play-testing, both during game development and post-release.
- Analysing the evolution of defined metrics to spot both, monetization bottlenecks and facilitators, and suggest game design improvements or enhance the customer experience accordingly.
This is a position requiring a mix
of strong economy and marketing knowledge with passion for analytical
game design and the emerging free-to-play business model.
Qualifications
Skills:
- Strong sensitivity to gameplay and game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game.
- Strong analytical and formal thinking, able to break problems down in their key variables and identify the relations between them.
- Strong econometrics skills, able to model problems into quantitative systems, and draw qualitative conclusions out of quantitative data.
- 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
Requirements:
- > 2 years´ experience as Game Economy Designer or Game Balancer.
- Graduate degree in Economics or BA, preferably specialized in Marketing or Strategic direction.
- Mastery of Excel.
- Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market, both web-based and on smartphones.
- Passion for games on all existing formats: board games, card games, sports, paper RPGs, gambling, all genres of videogames with special focus on MMOs and competitive games.
Pluses:
- Previous experience in econometrics / data mining.
- Previous experience as game designer, social designer or gambling designer.
And above all, motivation and a passion for video games!
*An assessment test will be sent to all suitable candidates
Additional Information
Why Join Gameloft Barcelona?
- Permanent contract, full-time job and excellent Social Benefits.
- Career-development opportunities.
- An exceptional, dynamic, demanding and motivating working environment within a fast growing company.
- Challenging and rewarding work on the next great frontiers in games.
- Exceptional library of diverse games with broad distribution.
- An international environment which offers daily contact with other countries & cultures.
- Excellent local working conditions (quality of offices, geographical location of office in the centre of Barcelona)
We can’t wait to find our next great talent!
Want to know more? Please visit our Website: www.gameloft.com
Interested applicants send your CV to glbarcelona-jobs@gameloft.com with the reference topic "Game Economy Designer - Polycount"