Electronic Arts

Associate Game Designer/Game Economy Designer - Live Service

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for tens of millions of players around the world, pioneering award-winning and creative technology and experiences that connect players to the speed, skill, and creativity of the NHL.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of remarkable talent on a mission to accomplish on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, you will have the chance to turn a job into something you love.

As a Game Economy Designer, you will promote the delivery of game value to the customer, encouraging players to keep coming back and engaging with the core game loop. You will employ methodologies of economics, sociology, and business intelligence to create a healthy game economy, tightly integrated with systems for player customization, game progression, reward structures, and overall gameplay balance.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Live Content Lead, you will tune and help build essential features that further the strategic vision of the product, and improve retention, acquisition, and monetization.

• Model, build, and tune complex game economy systems with multiple currencies, progression systems, sinks, faucets and points.

• Tune a live service economy, incorporating limited time events, reward structures, purchases, and adjustments that support new features throughout the product life cycle.

• Partner with our Analytics team to collect and analyze data, and optimize performance. 

• Be the resident authority on important metrics such as engagement time, retention, and LTV.

• Guide economy health, daily game updates, and content pricing.

• Establish and tune the economy, including drivers of purchase behaviour, gameplay earn rates, purchase packages, pricing, virtual products, and special events.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Marketing, Business, or Social Science.

• 3+ years designing digital games; 1+ years optimizing live service games.

• Understand game balance and pacing in online games.

• Expertise with spreadsheets (can perform complex functions), manipulating and summarizing large datasets.

• Break down problems, identifying important relationships and levers that influence the outputs.

• Model problems into quantitative systems, anticipate downstream effects, and draw conclusions.

• Statistics knowledge, allowing you to create ratios and indexes specific to each game, and identify specific weaknesses and strengths in its economy design.