Game Economy Designer (f/m/d*)

Embark on an exciting journey with GameDuell! Join our dynamic team as a Game Economy Designer and play a pivotal role in crafting engaging and rewarding player experience in F2P board and card games. You will maintain the balance between player enjoyment and sustainable business growth.

The passion for creating high-quality games and the focus on a superior customer experience have made GameDuell one of the largest cross-platform games communities in the world. Since 2003, more than 130 million players have played with us, and we offer a broad portfolio of over 40 casual online skill games.

Your tasks

• Design and map out game progression from a systems and monetization perspective
• Take full ownership of game monetization, manage pricing of virtual goods, balance game systems, and balance incentivized and purchased items in the game economy context
• Take responsibility for the quality of game systems. Analyze content from our current games to design and drive meaningful changes or improvements to economy design and monetization concepts
• Provide clear system and economy documentation, diagrams, calculation models, analyses, wireframes, and/or prototypes
• Work closely with game designers to match desired player behavior, systems, and creative game design for maximum effect
• Analyze target game genres’ game economies

What we expect

• At least 3 years of proven successful work experience in game system design, balancing, pacing & monetization strategies for F2P games
• A completed university degree in economics, mathematics, computer engineering, computer science, or similar
• Highly analytical, skilled at building models and tools to simulate and analyze the game economy and player behavior
• Very good econometrics skills, able to model problems into quantitative systems, and draw qualitative conclusions out of quantitative data
• Statistical knowledge, able to formulate ratios and indexes specific to each game, identifying specific weaknesses and strengths in its economy design
• High ability to understand player motivations and merge them with business needs
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Fluency in English is required

What we offer

• Independent work with interesting possibilities for your personal development
• Working directly with cross-discipline teams
• Flexible working hours, hybrid work model possible
• A versatile, friendly, and international team that guarantees fun on the job
• Meet-ups, tech talks, networking events, BBQs, newbie dinner, summer party, Halloween party, family-and-friends party, gaming sessions, sports activities, etc. just to name a few – we are hosting all of them with our own event team
• One of the best working spaces in Berlin: our well-situated office in Mitte! (Includes free soft drinks, fruit, pool table, table tennis, game events, sports courses, a sunny rooftop terrace, and much more)

We are an ecological and socially sustainable company and have our very own “Green Team” where you can make an impact and actively implement ideas and initiatives to help protect our environment and for charity. As a games community, we take our social responsibility seriously. We are co-founders of the “Leaders for Climate Action” and have committed ourselves to becoming carbon neutral.

• We pay attention to environmental friendly and resource-efficient standards when purchasing our office and food supplies
• We match your charity donations
• Social responsibility begins with each of us. Our corporate culture is characterized by mutual trust and respect. Our open and international team welcomes and respects diversity

Contact us

Say "hello" to our recruiter Kumar!

We look forward to receiving your application. Please send your application including possible starting date as PDF with the subject ‘Game Economy Designer *’.

(*) GameDuell is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring practices. Any terms referring to people are valid for all genders whether male, female, or diverse.