Game Economy Designer

Vira Games; United States; A distancia; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Vira Games Inc. is seeking a skilled Game Economist to balance mobile F2P economies, design progression, and optimize monetization across live operations. You will build mathematical models, validate decisions with analytics, and collaborate with design, development, and analytics teams.

The role requires deep knowledge of retention metrics, LTV/ARPDAU, and proficiency in SQL and advanced spreadsheets to maintain scalable, production-ready data formats and documentation.

Formación

• 3+ years as an economist in mobile F2P games.
• Experience with Core and Meta cycles.
• Experience with LiveOps games.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills (formulas, pivot tables).
• Ability to build readable and maintainable mathematical models.
• Understanding of probability theory, progression curves, and drop rates.
• Knowledge of retention metrics (Retention, Session Length) and monetization metrics (LTV, ARPDAU, Conversion).
• Basics of SQL for data retrieval and analysis.

Responsabilidades

• Balance the game economy from tutorials to late game and adjust currency value.
• Design progression by computing experience, pace, and session length.
• Manage monetization with balanced hybrid IAP + Ads strategies.
• Write production-ready GDDs with data formats and analytics needs.
• Audit game economics and maintain a unified project knowledge base.
• Identify and fix vulnerabilities in game balance and logic.
• Build and maintain live economic models and progression curves.
• Analyze playtest data and metrics to justify decisions with numbers.
• Collaborate with game design, development, and analytics teams.

Conocimientos

Game economy design

LiveOps experience

Data analysis

SQL

Excel/Sheets

Math modelling

Retention metrics

LTV/ARPDAU understanding

Herramientas

SQL

Descripción del empleo

About the Company

Vira Games is an independent game company specializing in the development and publishing of mobile games. Our team is a creative alliance that combines experience, creativity, drive, and professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Balance the game economy by configuring resource inflows and outflows and controlling currency value from tutorial to late game
• Design progression by calculating experience, game pace, and session duration
• Manage monetization by balancing prices for hybrid IAP + Ads models
• Write production-ready GDDs for developers including limits, data formats, and analytics requirements
• Conduct audits and maintain a unified knowledge base of project economics
• Identify and eliminate vulnerabilities in game logic and balance
• Build and maintain live economic models, including progression formulas and difficulty curves
• Analyze playtest data and behavioral metrics to justify decisions with numbers
• Collaborate with game design, development, and analytics teams

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as an economist in mobile F2P games
• Experience with Core and Meta cycles
• Experience working with games in LiveOps stage
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets (complex formulas, pivot tables, arrays, indexes)
• Ability to build readable and maintainable mathematical models
• Understanding of probability theory (Gacha, drop rates), combinatorics, and progression curves
• Understanding of retention metrics (Retention, Session Length) and monetization metrics (LTV, ARPDAU, Conversion Rate)
• Knowledge of SQL for independent data retrieval and analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• AI-Native Workflow: Using AI/neural networks for simulating game sessions and generating Python code
• Advanced Python skills (Pandas/NumPy) for complex calculations
• Experience in visual system modeling
• Ability to forecast long-term currency surpluses or deficits (LTV 180+)