Position: Game Economist
Company: GamePoint Development
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**About the Role**
GamePoint seeks a **Game Economist** with a passion for gaming to join our Poker team on a genre bending poker experience!
As the Game Economist, you will collaborate with your team and stakeholders, identify methods and oversee the strategic blending of numbers and narrative.
You will apply F2P economic design fundamentals; continually revising your hypothesis to ensure meaningful player experiences that monetize and delight. The economy systems you will own are key to engaging products, community wellbeing, and long-term growth. This is a unique position that requires a passion for Poker and RPGs. Our new Poker product offers you an opportunity to stand out in the mobile gaming space. Come, help us build it!

**Responsibilities:**
- As a member of the Product/Analytics team, you will own the in-game economy and will collaborate closely with Product Managers and analysts to devise the strategy for the game’s economy. You will be the point of contact and expert on the game economy, including features, live operations, and pricing.
- Design flexible economy systems and features (progression & reward structures, currencies, sinks & sources etc.) aligned with the creative, game, and monetization directions
- Create flexible systems and data structure to allow for rapid iteration.
- Keep up to date with market trends and do proactive analysis of economy tuning in relevant competitive products
- Balancing virtual products – identifying needs, relationships, life-cycle and streams of availability
- Analyze complex data sets, characterize different users and create player incentives while considering product, marketing and analytical effects
- Collaborate and provide answers and explanations to relevant math questions for game designers, engineers, compliance requirements and other departments as necessary
- Write and maintain design documentation that will serve as a reference to guide interdependent team
 
**Requirements:**
- 2 years  experience as Game Economy Designer or Game Balancer or Game Mathematician
- Collaborative and excels in communicating with product managers, analysts and executives.
- Excellent working knowledge in mathematics, combinatorics, statistics, and probability theories
- Ability to balance multiple projects in parallel while delivering high-quality work.
- Strong analytical and formal thinking, able to break problems down in their key variables and identify the relations between them
- Ability to model and simulate planned changes, anticipating downstream effects, and make adjustments prior to releasing changes.
- Detail-oriented and capable of providing specific solutions at each step of the process.
- Ideally loves playing mobile games and/or Poker.
- Advanced understanding of Excel, SQL and/or Python.
- Good communication skills, team worker, high personal discipline and self-learning
- English – spoken intermediate (and higher)
- Deep, up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market, both web-based and on mobile

**To keep the balance, GamePoint offers:**
- Fun, passionate and creative game studio with a casual, friendly atmosphere
- International environment which offers daily contact with other countries & cultures
- Excellent benefits and studio culture
- Competitive salary
- Training opportunities — you will have your ownd budget for conferences and cources
- An epic annual company trip to GamePoint Summit every September
- English courses
- Office in city center (Pecherska metro station), kitchen with cookies, coffee, fruits
- Playstation, Counter Strike team, Ping Pong addicted colleagues
- Paid vacation (20) and sick leaves (10)

**About GamePoint:**
GamePoint is one of the world’s leading social and mobile game developers. GamePoint aims to entertain a worldwide audience with its real time multiplayer social games (slots and casino). By providing social features in our games and extensive community support, GamePoint builds on long term relationships with their users.

We highly appreciate our employees. If you have new ideas or want to try out new technologies in our company; please do! If your job makes you happy, you make us happy!