Mobile Game Product & Economy Consultant

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Mobile Live Game Product & Economy Consultant based in Australia.

This is a consulting opportunity for an experienced mobile gaming professional to shape the product, economy, monetization, and retention strategy of a competitive free-to-play title.

• Evaluate the first-time user experience and early player journey, identifying tutorial drop-off, time to meaningful gameplay, early-game difficulty, and opportunities to improve onboarding.
• Assess how effectively new players understand core mechanics and determine which systems and complexity should be introduced early versus later.
• Analyse the game economy, including currencies, progression systems, sinks, faucets, resource scarcity, progression gates, and the overall player power curve.
• Evaluate progression pacing, player demand, long-term goals, and the relationship between power progression and competitive fairness.
• Identify and mitigate potential pay-to-win risks while maintaining a healthy and sustainable economy.
• Review monetization strategy across first purchases, offers, pricing, regional price points, payer segmentation, conversion, battle passes, rewarded advertising, and spending progression.
• Develop recommendations for monetization structures that enhance the player experience rather than negatively affecting engagement or competitive integrity.
• Analyse retention and live-game depth, including core loops, match quality, fairness, short- and long-term goals, collection motivation, and daily or weekly engagement mechanisms.
• Evaluate events, content cadence, LiveOps opportunities, churn patterns, and return behaviour to identify ways to strengthen long-term engagement.
• Analyse raw player and product data, including cohorts, funnels, retention, conversion, and behavioural metrics, to identify meaningful patterns and opportunities.
• Translate quantitative and qualitative analysis into clear, actionable product recommendations and help prioritise opportunities based on expected impact.
• Work cross-functionally with product, game design, economy, analytics, and LiveOps teams to implement recommendations and assess the results after changes are shipped.
• Balance monetization, progression, retention, player experience, and competitive fairness when making product recommendations.

• Strong professional experience working on live free-to-play mobile games.
• Deep practical expertise in game economy and progression systems.
• Strong understanding of mobile game monetization, retention, engagement, and player behaviour.
• Demonstrated experience making economy, balance, progression, or monetization decisions for a live mobile title.
• Ability to work directly with raw player and product data and independently identify meaningful insights.
• Strong understanding of cohorts, conversion funnels, retention metrics, player segmentation, and behavioural analysis.
• Sound analytical judgment, including the ability to distinguish between reliable evidence and data that does not yet support a clear conclusion.
• Proven ability to translate analysis into concise, practical, and impactful product recommendations.
• Strong understanding of competitive integrity and the risks associated with pay-to-win mechanics.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across product management, game design, economy, analytics, and LiveOps functions.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a part-time consulting capacity while communicating recommendations clearly to stakeholders.

• Part-time consulting contract.
• Fully remote working arrangement.
• Opportunity to influence the product strategy of a competitive free-to-play mobile game in soft launch.
• Direct impact across game economy, monetization, retention, FTUE, and LiveOps.
• Flexible consulting environment suited to experienced gaming professionals.
• Opportunity to work with cross-functional product, design, analytics, and LiveOps teams.
• English-speaking international working environment.