We are looking for a talented and creative Principal Economy Designer to solve some interesting but challenging problems for Candy Crush Saga. You will get the opportunity to be part of a great team, working with an industry leading and genre defining game with over 200 million active players.

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Principal Systems and Economy Designer within the In-App Purchase team of Candy Crush, you will be working with varied stakeholders in a fun, dynamic and fast-paced environment. You’ll help us deliver a fun, engaging experience to all players in Candy Crush, by ensuring the right game balance and economy management

Key responsibilities include:

Overall Game Balance

• Defining effort to reward ratio standards for the game
• Ensuring we have the right balance of sources and sinks for game currency and resources. Highlighting gaps and challenges where applicable to game teams to action

Championing Game Economy Health

• Establishing key KPIs to assess game economy health
• Assessing, evaluating and correcting game systems and economy setup to make playing Candy Crush Saga, a fun and engaging experience for all play styles

Educating Teams and Stakeholder Management

• Draft guidelines to empower teams to make game economy decisions, aligned with vision
• Work with key stakeholders across the org to educate them on important systems & economy problems to solve, getting buy in and aligning on a clear plan of action

Collaboration

• Work together with your team consisting of data scientists, product managers, analysts and pricing experts to generate insights on player behaviour, game and business needs
• Mentor and coach game designers on systems thinking, economy management and game balancing

Skills to create thrills

• 5+ years of experience with game balancing and economy management experience on F2P games
• Adept big picture thinker, who can identify and prioritize problems effectively and generate big impact for the game and team
• Systems thinker who can balance effectively- player, game and business needs to deliver compelling player experiences
• Well versed at creating economy simulations, game models, goal- reward graphs