Game Economy Designer in Gameloft

Company DescriptionA leading digital and social game publisher, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms and with an audience of 157 million monthly users offers via Gameloft Advertising Solutions a unique level of visibility and involvement to advertisers. Gameloft operates its own established franchises such as Asphalt®, Order & Chaos, Modern Combat and Dungeon Hunter and also partners with major rights holders including Universal, Illumination Entertainment, Disney®, Marvel®, Hasbro®, Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel®, and Ferrari®. Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries. Gameloft is a Vivendi company.The company has operated in Ukraine since 2007. Gameloft Kharkiv is one of the largest and the most successful Gameloft Studios.Gameloft Lviv is a young Studio that continues to grow, establishing a full development pipeline for mobile games.Job DescriptionThis is a position requiring a mix of strong economy and marketing knowledge with a passion for analytical game design and the emerging free-to-play business model.QualificationsStrong sensitivity to gameplay and game design, understanding how to build needs and emotions in the context of a game;Strong econometrics skills;Statistic knowledge, able to formulate ratios and indexes specific to each game, identifying specific weaknesses and strengths in its economy design;Strong marketing knowledge, able to formulate adequate selling strategies to improve the financial performance;Understanding of client/server architecture and data collecting pipeline and mining.RequirementsGraduate degree in Economics or BA, preferably specialized in Marketing or Strategic direction;Mastery of Excel;Advanced understanding of SQL;Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market, both web-based and on smartphones;Passion for games on all existing formats;Fluent written and spoken English, concise writing skills, full working proficiency Ukrainian.ResponsibilitiesDefining the virtual products and their statistics with the development team;Identifying the potential sale drivers for the different product categories in the game economy, defining the key points of exposure for those drivers;Balancing the needs for those virtual products, their relation, life cycle, and their streams of availability;Regularly provide user feedback and stat/price point tuning to development team based on play-testing, both during game development and post-release;Analyze the evolution of the metrics you defined to spot both monetization bottlenecks and facilitators.BenefitsJoin a leading global mobile and video games publisher and developer utilizing the state-of-art mobile technologies and devices;Become a part of the talented international team in a friendly, creative and dynamic environment;Become a true pro in the fast-growing, exciting and innovative video games industry;Be proud to deliver the prestigious products winning the top rankings worldwide;Build up your career with dynamic promotions and world wide opportunitiesAdditional InformationIn order to consider your application, we require you to send the fullversion of your CV in English. Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a test assessment. Show more Show less Position level Senior secondary level Type of employment Full-time Job responsibilities Analyst Industries Graphic Design and Entertainment Providers