Sr Game Designer (Progression & Economy)

About This Role

This Senior Game Designer role focuses on progression systems, player lifecycle, and economic health for an upcoming live service title. The designer will translate high-level creative vision into mathematically sound progression loops and economy systems, ensuring player investment, rewards, and monetization strategies are cohesive, fair, and engaging within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, model, and maintain complex player progression frameworks, monetization loops, and virtual economies that support long-term player retention and engagement in a live service environment
• Translate abstract player experience goals into precise structural maps, detailed spreadsheets, data tables, and algorithmic logic models
• Own the balancing, pacing, and tuning of player rewards, XP curves, drop rates, sink/source mechanics, and overall game economy to eliminate inflation or progression bottlenecks
• Coherently integrate progression, monetization, and social layers within a multiplayer AAA ecosystem, aligning features across both PvE and PvP dimensions
• Act as the primary point of contact for progression and economy systems, working closely with Directors, Producers, Data Analysts, and Engineers to ensure structural feasibility and data telemetry readiness
• Adapt and optimize systems post-launch based on player metrics, behavior patterns, and shifting market trends while maintaining structural balance with new content releases

Requirements

• Extensive experience in systems or progression design with at least one shipped AAA multiplayer live service title where you owned or significantly contributed to the game's economy or progression loops
• Proven, highly methodical approach to design, relying on strong mathematical logic, complex spreadsheets, and structural documentation over guesswork
• Deep understanding of macro and micro-economy principles in modern gaming, including monetization strategies, virtual currencies, reward pacing, and incentive loops
• Strong ability to work directly within the Unreal Engine editor to hook up data structures, configure data tables, and test progression parameter changes locally
• Strong competence in interpreting live telemetry, player cohorts, A/B testing data, and macroeconomic analytics to guide balance adjustments and systems optimization
• Exceptional ability to distill complex, multi-layered economic dependencies into clear, highly readable system specifications for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience using economy simulation software or advanced mathematical scripting (e.g., Python, Machinations, or specialized spreadsheet modeling) to stress-test systems before implementation

Nice to have:

• Prior design experience crossing into complementary fields such as Level Design, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or UX Design