Game Designer - Economy

Overview

This role is for a Game Designer - Economy at a AAA sports game development studio. The studio is building the next generation of professional football (soccer) video games using Unreal Engine 5, focusing on high-fidelity gameplay, deep progression, and live-service-ready systems for long-term engagement.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Game Designer - Economy to design, balance, and iterate on the in-game economy for a AAA European football title built in Unreal Engine 5. This position is crucial for managing how players earn and spend currencies, pacing rewards, and ensuring progression systems foster fun, fairness, engagement, and long-term economic health across seasons and live content updates. A cover letter detailing past sports game development experience and relevant soccer experience/fandom is required with applications.

What You'll Do

• Design and balance the in-game economy, including currency flows, reward pacing, progression structures, seasonal content rewards, and incentive loops aligned with the game vision.
• Build and maintain models, spreadsheets, and simulations to represent economic outcomes; analyze player behavior and KPIs to identify friction points and tuning opportunities.
• Collaborate with design, live ops, and engineering partners to integrate economy systems into gameplay and content updates; document assumptions, decisions, and tuning rationale and iterate through playtests and metrics.

Who You Are

• 2+ years of game design experience with a focus on economy, progression, and/or balancing systems (AAA and/or live service experience preferred); at least one shipped AAA title preferred (sports titles a plus).
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, including comfort with spreadsheets and economic simulations; strong understanding of reward loops, progression pacing, and player motivation models.
• Clear written and verbal communicator with passion for football games and an understanding of how economy/progression supports meaningful long-term engagement; bonus: familiarity with Unreal Engine 5 workflows, live-service economies, BI tools (Looker/Tableau), telemetry, and/or A/B testing.

Key skills/competency

• Game Economy Design
• Progression Systems
• Live Services
• Unreal Engine 5
• Data Analysis
• Player Behavior
• Sports Games
• AAA Development
• Economic Modeling
• KPI Analysis
• Monetization Strategy