Remote Senior Systems & Economy Designer - Live Ops

Logoslabs; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 77,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

A Thinking Ape seeks a Systems & Economy Designer (Intermediate/Senior) to tackle complex design problems in our live games. You’ll own long-term balance, run hypothesis-driven experiments, and measure outcomes while understanding player behavior and community response.

You’ll join a distributed team across Canada, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Creative, and Community to iteratively improve progression, currencies, and monetization systems for iconic titles like Party in my Dorm and

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in game design with focus on systems or economy design.
• Experience on free-to-play live service mobile games is a plus.
• Strong understanding of F2P economies, progression, monetization, and retention.

Responsibilities

• Design, balance, maintain, and iterate on progression systems, currencies, reward structures, monetization systems, and other core game systems.
• Investigate complex system and economy problems to uncover root causes and develop solutions.
• Build spreadsheet models to simulate progression, balance economies, and forecast outcomes.
• Lead design initiatives from problem definition through implementation and launch, coordinating with Product, Engineering, Creative, Community, and other designers.
• Use data, player behavior, and community feedback to guide decisions and evaluate outcomes.
• Improve tools, frameworks, documentation, and processes for design and maintenance, including scripting, AI, and automation.
• Participate in live-ops on-call rotation for several days per month to respond to urgent issues.
• Stay connected to player sentiment, community discussions, and trends in the free-to-play mobile market.
• Share expertise and mentor other designers through feedback and collaboration.

Skills

Systems design

Economy design

F2P economy

Data literacy

Spreadsheet models

Communication

Ownership

Mentorship

Tools

SQL

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Job description

A Thinking Ape seeks a Systems & Economy Designer (Intermediate/Senior) to tackle complex design problems in our live games. You’ll own long-term balance, run hypothesis-driven experiments, and measure outcomes while understanding player behavior and community response.

You’ll join a distributed team across Canada, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Creative, and Community to iteratively improve progression, currencies, and monetization systems for iconic titles like Party in my Dorm and