Senior Economy Designer - LaunchOps

As a Senior Economy Designer at Voodoo, your primary responsibilities include creating and implementing economy systems for several new games, contributing to the design and balancing of monetization strategies, and collaborating with product and data professionals to optimize game economies. You'll also define A/B testing strategies to enhance both game difficulty and monetization loops.

To qualify for the Senior Economy Designer position at Voodoo, candidates should have at least 4 years of professional experience as a game economist, with meaningful contributions to at least two scaled games. Additionally, a deep understanding of mobile games, free-to-play monetization models, and strong communication skills in English are essential.

As a Senior Economy Designer at Voodoo, you will be part of our dynamic Core games team, which includes a diverse range of experts focused on turning high-potential games into hits. Collaboration and strong communication are key aspects of our passionate team environment.

Working at Voodoo as a Senior Economy Designer comes with a competitive salary based on experience, Swile lunch vouchers, premium healthcare coverage, wellness activities in our Paris office, and an unlimited vacation policy, ensuring a balanced work-life experience.

At Voodoo, we prioritize professional development and growth opportunities for our Senior Economy Designers through collaborative projects, feedback-driven culture, and continuous learning initiatives to enhance your skill set and career trajectory within the mobile gaming industry.

When explaining your approach, highlight your process of understanding player behavior, identifying key monetization strategies, and utilizing A/B testing to analyze and adjust the economy systems. Emphasize the importance of balancing player engagement with monetization.

Discuss the metrics such as average revenue per user (ARPU), player retention rates, in-app purchase conversion rates, and player engagement levels. Mention how these metrics can inform decisions about balancing and optimizing the game economy.

Demonstrate your multitasking abilities by describing how you assess the urgency and impact of each project, utilize project management tools, and keep open communication with your team to ensure that all economies are consistently optimized and monitored.

Share a specific example where you designed and executed an A/B test strategy that improved game monetization or player experience. Outline your process for hypothesis creation, the metrics you tracked, and the results that followed.

Emphasize your collaboration skills by discussing how you engage with product managers, designers, and data analysts to align visions and strategies. Share specific examples of your positive contributions towards achieving shared goals.

Discuss your proficiency with key analytical tools such as Unity Analytics, Google Analytics, or custom tools you've used to analyze player behavior and inform design decisions. Explain how these insights influence your economic design process.

Articulate the complexities of balancing player engagement with monetization. You could also mention the challenge of keeping players invested long-term while ensuring the economy remains both competitive and fair.

Describe methods you use to provide players with meaningful rewards, daily login bonuses, or incentives for continued play. Discuss the psychological aspects of game design that contribute to a satisfied player base.

Explain how you gather regular feedback from player data and incorporate trends observed in the gaming community, adjusting the economy accordingly to keep engagement levels high.

Illustrate your belief in a feedback-driven approach, where you actively seek input from users, colleagues, and internal testing teams to refine and iterate your economic systems effectively, ultimately enhancing player experience.