Associate Product Manager, Game Economy

HellaGoodAudio; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries with annual bonus

401k matching

In office Mon-Thu, Fridays remote

Ergonomic workspace and game room

Fully stocked kitchen with stipends

Paid family leave

Paid volunteer time

Annual company retreat

Job summary

SciPlay is hiring an Associate Product Manager (Economy focused) to tune in-game economies and drive monetization decisions. You will collaborate with LiveOps, Monetization and Analytics to run experiments, monitor KPIs, and steer pricing and progression strategies.

This role is part of SciPlay’s Project Rising onboarding program, designed to rapidly build your understanding of social/mobile gaming through hands-on learning and projects.

Qualifications

• Degree in economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering or another quantitative field.
• 2+ years in game economy, F2P product management or a closely related analytical role.
• Advanced spreadsheet modeling (Excel or Sheets) for balance models and simulations.
• Working knowledge of statistics and probability, and of simulation methods such as Monte Carlo.
• Python or R for analysis and modeling.
• Hands-on experience designing and reading A/B tests.
• Understanding of behavioral economics and player motivation.
• Background in mobile, online or social free-to-play games.
• Familiarity with LiveOps tooling and event operations, and a habit of working alongside a LiveOps team.
• Clear communicator who turns models into recommendations that stakeholders at every level can act on.

Responsibilities

• Help design and maintain the game economy: currencies, sources and sinks, progression, and the pricing of virtual goods, with KPIs that show whether it is healthy.
• Support week-to-week economy tuning: feature configurations, rewards, level progression, bonus values and offer contents, using data and experiments with guidance from senior teammates.
• Build simulations and predictive models that forecast how content, pricing and balance changes might land before they ship.
• Help plan and run A/B tests on economy and pricing changes, read the results, and bring recommendations to the team.
• Help define player segments from behavior and motivation, and test economy parameters tailored to each segment.
• Monitor economy health (player balances, inflation, source and sink ratios, conversion), flag anomalies, and help investigate them.
• Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Marketing and Engineering so the economy supports game goals, and present findings to the team, with opportunities to present to senior leadership.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Critical thinking

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Degree in economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering or another quantitative field

Tools

Python or R

Excel or Sheets

Monte Carlo

A/B testing

LiveOps tooling

Job description

SciPlay is hiring an Associate Product Manager (Economy focused) to tune in-game economies and drive monetization decisions. You will collaborate with LiveOps, Monetization and Analytics to run experiments, monitor KPIs, and steer pricing and progression strategies.

This role is part of SciPlay’s Project Rising onboarding program, designed to rapidly build your understanding of social/mobile gaming through hands-on learning and projects.