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Senior Economy Designer - Small Giant Games
Who We Are:
Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile, including Star Wars™: Hunters, CSR Racing™, Dragon City, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Monster Legends, Toon Blast™, Top Eleven, Toy Blast™, Two Dots, Words With Friends™, and Zynga Poker™.Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog
Position Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Game Economy Designer to take ownership of Empires & Puzzles economy. You will be part of the Empires & Puzzles development team helping us to continue providing a great player experience for our players. You will design, analyze, and optimize the economic systems that drive player progression, retention, and monetization in Empires & Puzzles.
What You'll Do:
- Translate product and design vision into workable economy and balancing models, simulations, and resulting inputs, as well as feature designs and proposals that impact game success
- Take ownership of Empires & Puzzles economy and balance new and existing features.
- Develop, model and fine-tune in-game economic systems, including currencies, resource sources, sinks, rewards and acquisition rates.
- Work closely with our analytics team to monitor key economic KPIs, such as retention, conversion rates, and ARPU and identify and address potential economy imbalances, including currency inflation and resource scarcity.
- Collaborate with designers, developers and live-ops team to align economy design with overall game goals
- Design and create new tools to help you and the rest of the team succeed
What You Bring:
- Several years of experience in game economy design in a live mobile game.
- Ability to clearly present complex game economy topics to broader audiences
- Good grasp of economy balancing in F2P games.
- Ability to deduce insights from multiple data points.
- A very thorough understanding of Gacha mechanics.
- Experience in simulating the game economy
Bonus Points:
- Experience with Collectable Card Games and/or RPGs
- Experience in implementing economy simulations.
- Familiarity with game development tools such as Unity or Unreal Engine.
What We Offer You:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Exciting, fun and highly successful projects to work on
- Extremely talented and helpful colleagues
- Lots of power and responsibility
- Office conveniently located in downtown Helsinki
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