JUNIOR GAME ECONOMIST

Are you interested in how real-world economic theory can be applied in the world of gaming? This is an opportunity for you to design, analyze and manage the economy for top grossing apps and to be a key player in the game economy department within Product Madness.
As a Junior Game Economist, you will be essential to the success of our games.
You will work closely with our product and game-ops teams to design and balance the economy of our games and to provide the teams with actionable insights.
In parallel to this you will also be working in the game economy department, helping to build the craft of game economy in the company; supporting long term strategy, help build and evaluate top class tooling to continuously improve our ways of working.
*What You'll Do* *Day to Day:* * Design, configure, monitor and optimize the economy of features and events in one or more of Product Madness games.
This will include defining the pricing of purchasable items and collectibles.
* Support the product, game ops and data teams with the understanding of the game economy to generate growth and a positive player experience.
* Explore segmentation of the players based on behavioral theories and data to recommend new and useful segments to use for our game operations and feature design.
* Drive game economy best practices and knowledge sharing throughout the company, working with other Game Economy Managers to build this knowledge capital.
*What We're Looking For* *Requirements:* * Academic background in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering or another quantitative field * An advanced degree in Economics, Finance, or in another quantitative field - an advantage * Experience in working in the field of economics (outside gaming) – an advantage * Passionate about quantitative analysis and can generate actionable business insights.
* Knowledge in SQL – an advantage * Intermediate Python or R – an advantage *Behaviours:* * Work collaboratively with other individual and teams * Good communication skills * Capable of presenting insights and ideas in a clear and concise way to large groups * Ability to motivate others into action * Interested in the mobile games industry or similarly sophisticated customer-facing digital businesses.
*Benefits:* * 25 days per year + Christmas closure + BCN Bank Holidays + Birthday off * Yearly Bonus * Cigna - Medical Insurance for all our employees.
* GYMPASS - free gym membership *Why **Product Madness**?* You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world-class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino.
The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users.
But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market.
Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United.
Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.
You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people.
Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios.
This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work.
Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get-togethers and so much more.
So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness? *Our Values* * *People First* We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being.
We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice.
We want them to re-choose us every day.
We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
* *MAD for More* Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing.
We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.
* *Champion Together * We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates.
We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.
* *Globally Inclusive* We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from.
We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
* *Customer Focused* We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.
Improving their experience and joy is what drives us.
Every client's success is our big win! *Travel Expectations* None