Game Economist

Company Summary
Product Madness is a Global Powerhouse where the greatest mobile games and experiences are crafted by world-class talent.

A top-grossing leader in free to play mobile games, we have more than 800 team members working across seven global talent hubs including London (headquarters), USA, Canada, Spain, Poland and Ukraine.

With remarkable hit games including Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and Big Fish Casino, we boast more than 50 million active users and 400 million downloads and counting.

We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what brings us together as a studio, connects us with our partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.

Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital game's division of Pixel United.

Job Posting Title:

Game Economist

Summary:

Are you interested in how real world economic theory can be applied in the world of gaming?

This is an opportunity for you to design, analyze and manage the economy for top grossing apps and to be a key player in establishing a game economy department within Product Madness.

As a Games Economist you will be essential to the success of our games.

You will work closely with our product teams to design and balance the economy of our games and to provide the product team with actionable insights.

In parallel to this you will also be working in the Game Economy team, helping to build the craft of game economy in the company; supporting long term strategy, help build and evaluate top class tooling to continuously improve our ways of working and ensure we support new games currently in production.

What You'll Do:

This role is intended to strengthen the craft of game economy in Product Madness and to ensure that economy design is included in the way we make and operate our games.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• To support the product team with a holistic understanding of the game economy to generate growth and a positive player experience. This will include defining the pricing of all purchasable items and collectibles.
• To build and run simulations and predictive models to forecast the results of changes and balancing of content, for optimal player experience.
• To explore micro segmentation of the players based on behavior and motivation theory and to recommend new and useful segments to use for our game operations and feature design.
• To increase the level of insights in game economy within the product team. This by building dashboards, having presentations and workshops as well as supporting the product managers and head of games with process optimization.
• To drive game economy best practices and knowledge sharing throughout the company, working with other Game Economy Managers to build this knowledge capital.

Why you should join Product Madness

• 25 days per year + Christmas closure + BCN Bank Holidays + Birthday off
• Flexibility of 1 hours at the start and end of the working day + Summer working hours
• Fully hybrid working arrangements to suit you
• 50€ Amazon voucher for your birthday
• 40€ via Uber Eats voucher every month have a take a way on us
• WFH allowance of 250€ (one off) to set up your home office

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• Medical Insurance for all our employees.
• GYMPASS free gym membership
• Basket of Fruit worth 25€ each month of fruit and veggies sent to your house.
• Referral Scheme of 5000€ per referral hired (to be paid after successful completion of probation period)

What We're Looking For:

• Good understanding of more advanced statistical techniques suitable for analysis of highly skewed populations.
• Experience in predictive analytics, segmentation, and related areas; experience in experimental design.
• Experience with analytical coding: Using tools such as Python, R, Matlab (and sometimes Excel) for analytical purposes.
• A good working knowledge of SQL.
• Experience in working in the field of economics (outside gaming)
• Skills with standard reporting tools such as Looker/QlikView/Tableau/etc.

Why Product Madness
?
Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.

We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates.

Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.

Despite a pandemic, there isn't a day where we don't feel connected to one another.

With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.

We also try to cater for all our staff's needs - be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.

We love to organise plenty of so

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