Economy Game Designer

About This Role

Designing and balancing game economy and meta systems for World of Warships is the core of this role, driving player activity, engagement, and long-term retention. This position combines live-service work with improvements to existing systems and the development of new meta-game mechanics, suiting a designer who can use player data and economic modeling to support decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and balance rewards and progression for LiveOps events focused on player activity and engagement
• Design and balance randomized reward mechanics in collaboration with the Monetization team, including reward composition, probabilities, expected value, and impact on the game economy
• Design and configure battle economy for new game modes, including earnings, costs, modifiers, and their interaction with the wider game economy
• Analyze the impact of new features, events, and economic changes on player behavior and key product metrics
• Monitor the health of the game economy and its key systems, identify imbalances and emerging risks, maintain their stability, and propose improvements based on data and player behavior
• Work with existing meta-game systems, identify problems and opportunities, and propose improvements aimed at increasing engagement and long-term retention
• Participate in the design and balancing of new meta mechanics and progression systems for the core audience of World of Warships
• Build economic models, simulations, and calculations to validate design assumptions and balance parameters
• Define economic rules and configurations and maintain clear design documentation
• Work with analytics and research teams to evaluate feature performance after release and use the results to improve existing designs
• Collaborate with other disciplines throughout the feature lifecycle — from initial design and economic calculations to implementation, release, and post-launch analysis

Requirements

• Professional experience in Game Design, Economy Design, Systems Design, or a similar role
• Good understanding of game economies, progression systems, rewards, resource flows, and player motivation
• Strong numerical and analytical skills and confidence working with probabilities, expected values, and balance parameters
• Experience using spreadsheets to perform calculations, build balance models, and work with game economy data
• Understanding of free-to-play and live-service game design and the relationship between economy, engagement, retention, and monetization
• Experience with game analytics and BI tools, including the ability to define analytical questions, interpret results, and use data to support design decisions
• Ability to evaluate design decisions from both the player experience and broader product perspective, including their impact on engagement, retention, monetization, and the game economy