Senior Economy Designer

at  Magic Media

ABOUT MAGIC MEDIA

At Magic Media, we’re an experienced global entertainment service provider with industry-leading experts in game development, art, video production, and VFX, among others. We are passionate about gaming and delivering the highest-quality results to our clients.
Our huge, versatile team is backed by industry experts and veterans, supported by meticulously prepared processes, rules, and guidelines, and ruled by our “Let’s create magic” motto. Furthermore, we’ve expanded into practically all spheres of media and entertainment, striving to become the world’s number-one service provider.

ABOUT THE JOB

Job Title: Senior Economy Designer
Location: Remote
Contract Type: Freelance, Project Based
Contract Length: 3+ months
We are currently seeking an economy designer that can perform at a wide variety of game genres, platforms and target audiences and who is able to execute a game’s vision and bolster its systems through skillful and thorough Economy Design.
The person should be capable of working on multiple projects and cooperating with Producers, Customers, and other Stakeholders -internal and external- in a fast-paced international environment.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Professional experience in economy design: +5 years
• Deep knowledge creating Game Design Documentation
• Quest and Economy Design experience
• Web3 Economy Design experience
• Fluent English and excellent communication skills
• Experience working with Art and Programming departments
• Experience tuning game economies for FTUE and game tutorials
• Ability to work methodically and using predictive and iterative models
• Experience working on games from pre-production to release and LiveOps
• Shipped multiple game titles as Game Designer
• Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, capable of working autonomously and energetic

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in other fields of game design, such as game mechanics, level design, game narrative
• Experience working with Unity and Unreal game engines
• Basic scripting skills to adjust features created by developers
• Experience developing for PC and console platforms
• Knowledge of NFT Game Design
• Experience in developing sandbox games
• Experience in developing big open world games
• Experience with mobile and WebGL games
• Experience with play to earn concepts

• Ability to create effective game economies that fit our client’s vision and provide solutions that match industry standards
• Ability to create in-game and out-of-game economic systems for a wide variety of game genres and for a wide variety of audiences
• Knowledge of Game Theory and Game Design
• Create clean and structured sheets that make the necessary values easily available to developers and fellow designers
• Design and balance game systems core to the game economy
• Ability to create effective and well-documented sheets
• Strong mathematical skills, with emphasis on Statistics and Probability; being able to formulate indexes to identify strengths and weaknesses of the economy design in the game
• Perform in-engine balancing, tweaking and polishing tasks related to economy design
• Work within a multidisciplinary team towards shared goals
• Estimate, prioritize and coordinate economy design activities
• Coach teammates in economy design tasks
• Communicate and cooperate with Customers and other Stakeholders
• Participate in different Design Department activities to collaborate and coordinate with fellow game designers
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills