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Our Story
At Wooga, we are very proud of the diverse, creative and friendly environment we have established and we believe you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry. Each of our Woogas plays an important role in our success as a company and in shaping our culture. We really value our razor-sharp focus on story-driven casual games, excellent craftsmanship, truly collaborative way of working, and the values we strive to live up to every day. We create joyful experiences that awaken our players’ desire to see what happens next. Based in the heart of Berlin, with over 300 employees from around the world, we work together to create high-quality casual games with engaging stories at the core of the experience.
We are seeking an experienced Economy Designer for our enormously successful Hidden Object Game, June’s Journey. Do you want to work in a stable environment that strives for and recognizes excellence, and where values like diversity, integrity, and innovation are more than just words on a page? If so then we would love to hear from you!
About the role
- Leverage your data-driven mindset to ensure that our players have engaging, long-lasting and fun experiences
- Create economy models that facilitate new features and event creation, while staying healthy in the long run
- Collaborate closely with LiveOps, Game Analysts, Customer Care, Data Scientists and Feature development teams to assess trends in the game economy and control its levers (which will be installed and maintained by you)
- Stay aware of new trends in the mobile game market (esp. hidden object). Reverse engineer solutions from competitive titles and learn from them
- Manage a small team of Economy Designers
About you
- You have relevant design and live-ops experience
- You have set up and expanded a game economy to support expanded feature sets and live ops events
- You understand economical dynamics as a natural part of the User Experience
- You assess and understand these dynamics and use this knowledge to improve various KPIs
- You have experience working with data, ideally with a background in SQL
- You are able to use spreadsheets in very versatile ways (eg. as balancing tools, monitoring tools, LiveOps tools, and more)
- You can visualize and present ideas in a clear and comprehensive way using a variety of tools
- You have effective time management skills in order to effectively work against deadlines
- You are constantly working on enhancing your skills and are willing to accept and provide open feedback
- You have experience working cross-functionally with diverse and international teams
- Ideally, you already have experience mentoring and leading fellow Game Designers
Please note: Research has shown that some under-represented groups in the gaming industry (eg: women) tend to apply only if they meet every single requirement. Here at Wooga, the desire to learn and the willingness to solve problems are more important to us than your experience on paper. We encourage you to apply even if you do not think that you tick all the boxes - thinking outside of such boxes and embracing the diversity of mindsets and backgrounds is what we believe makes our teams thrive.
Our Promise
- Shape the future! Challenge the status quo and team up with a diverse group of experts (over 57 nationalities!) working on crafting the world’s best games.
- We offer a generous relocation package and home search support if you are not already located in Berlin. Did we mention that we also cooperate with Kindergartens?
- Make use of a significant education budget and extra days off for self-development. Join our meet-ups, talks, brown bag lunches, internal trainings, workshops and many others.
- Enjoy the yoga, mindfulness app, sports and transport subsidies. And a Purpose Day to donate your time to a worthy cause!
- Did you know that German is the third most commonly taught language worldwide? Learn it too! We offer German language classes for you and your significant other.
- With our hybrid work model you will work in the office with your teams twice a week, to encourage in-person collaboration and team bonding The other three days you can choose if you want to work from home or from the office. We also offer 10 days a year to work from abroad. We got your back!
At Wooga we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) and game preferences. Be yourself, we like you that way!
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What We Do
Each of our 300 Woogas play an important role in growing our success as a company and in shaping our company culture. We are proud of our razor-sharp focus on story-driven casual games, the excellent craftsmanship we put into them, and our truly collaborative way of working
