Live Ops Designer — Events, Monetization & Growth

Supercell Oy; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Supercell Oy is seeking a Live Ops Game Designer for the Hay Day team to drive player engagement and monetisation through live operations. You will own multiple areas of the game, design fresh events, and iterate on the live ops framework to balance player joy with business growth.

You will collaborate with marketing and the Hay Day team to ensure cohesive narratives, intuitive incentives, and innovative monetization mechanics, while maintaining autonomy in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in live-service, free-to-play mobile games.
• Proven track record in running and growing a live free-to-play game.
• Experience with live ops tooling.
• Deep understanding of engagement drivers in live service games.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to apply them to your work.
• Relentless problem solver who is also not afraid to ask for help.
• Sharp communicator who frames conflicting perspectives and trade-offs succinctly.
• Patient collaborator who listens first and builds others up.

Responsibilities

• Plan and maintain the live ops calendar balancing events, economy, and drops.
• Plan and execute ways to deliver fresh game experiences through creatively remixing existing game capabilities.
• Generate creative design ideas for new events and monetization mechanics.
• Plan the live ops economy design, ensuring players have intuitive incentives to engage.
• Coordinate with marketing to align event narratives, timing, and messaging for a consistent experience.
• Coordinate with the broader Hay Day team to keep live ops plans aligned with the game.
• Iterate on designs collaboratively and evolve them.
• Deconstruct key games and market shifts, sharing insights with the team.
• Contribute to shaping the wider direction of the game as part of the design team.
• Leverage AI tools and develop automation solutions.

Skills

Live ops

Free-to-play games

Analytics

AI tooling

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

Live ops tooling

AI tooling

Job description

Supercell Oy is seeking a Live Ops Game Designer for the Hay Day team to drive player engagement and monetisation through live operations. You will own multiple areas of the game, design fresh events, and iterate on the live ops framework to balance player joy with business growth.

You will collaborate with marketing and the Hay Day team to ensure cohesive narratives, intuitive incentives, and innovative monetization mechanics, while maintaining autonomy in a fast-paced environment.