Senior Economy & Engagement Designer: Monetization Strategy

Embark Studios AB; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Embark Studios AB is seeking a Senior/Lead Economy and Engagement Designer to craft engaging monetization and economy systems that keep players involved over the short, medium and long term.

You will shape in-game stores, pricing, and catalog strategies while coordinating with marketing, CRM, and acquisitions. This role focuses on player engagement, retention, and monetization across game loops and frontend presentation.

Qualifications

• A creative and curious mind.
• 5+ years or more experience in equivalent roles.
• An understanding of acquisition, retention and monetization concepts.
• Understanding of AAA gameplay and game design, including player psychology, UX design, gameplay design.
• Proficiency with the Unreal Engine and experience with Blueprints and scripting.
• Ability to design and continuously improve the optimization process of any given game.
• Experience with experimental design and/or AB Testing for data driven designs.
• Experience of coaching more junior members of the team.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Professional English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation and evaluation of our monetization strategy including quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as any available automation and simulation strategies.
• Understanding player motivations and how they relate to our game loops, especially in terms of delivering a fun gameplay experience with engagement systems.
• Responsible for in-game virtual store including recommendations and contributions towards catalog and pricing strategy for micro-transactions.
• Joint optimization with marketing, acquisition and crm teams for the entire user journey.
• Be a key stakeholder in game frontend presentation and flow for engagement and game economy features.
• Design and collaborate on metagame, progression and economy systems for long term player retention and engagement.
• Analyze the impact of changes in the game, identify opportunities that will have a positive impact on monetization and engagement in development and post launch.
• Help define key performance indicators (KPIs) related to monetization, analyze KPI reports and share information with the team and stakeholders to identify and predict trends.
• Monitor trends on monetization in order to identify best practices, achieve optimal results and innovation.

Skills

Monetization concepts

AAA gameplay design

Player psychology UX design

Cross-functional communication

Experiment design AB testing

Coaching team members

English communication

Tools

Unreal Engine

Blueprints

Job description

Embark Studios AB is seeking a Senior/Lead Economy and Engagement Designer to craft engaging monetization and economy systems that keep players involved over the short, medium and long term.

You will shape in-game stores, pricing, and catalog strategies while coordinating with marketing, CRM, and acquisitions. This role focuses on player engagement, retention, and monetization across game loops and frontend presentation.