Economy Designer

About the company

• Scopely Explore (formerly Niantic), creator of Pokémon GO, Monster Hunter Now, and Pikmin Bloom
• Fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team based in Tokyo, San Francisco, and Seattle

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Production, Data, and Feature Designers to drive systems design across the feature roadmap and live ops calendar
• Run the game economy, balancing resource sources, sinks, and progression across the player lifecycle
• Plan long-term progression strategy, integrating new progression systems and content releases
• Partner with Product, Live Ops and Data to find high impact optimization opportunities
• Own key gameplay metrics tied to economy design
• Promote understanding of key game systems from market comps
• Collaborate with Live Ops leadership to ensure events are accretive to the game economy
• Collaborate with Feature Designers to integrate features into core progression loops
• Mentor and foster a player-centric, outcome-oriented culture

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in free to play game systems and economy design
• Track record of leading game economies in successful free to play mobile games post-launch
• Experience impacting KPIs via systems design
• Deep understanding of game economy and live operations in midcore games
• Expertise analyzing and interpreting data
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English and Japanese
• Ability to mentor and lead by example
• Passion for video games, avid gamer
• Experience on a high profile game with significant DAU
• Based in Japan

Conditions

• Required in-office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
• Hybrid environment