Craft: Games Design & Production Job Description: Principal Economy and System Designer
Unannounced Merge 2 Game Join our team and help shape an unannounced Merge 2 game from the ground up. We are looking for a Principal Economy and System Designer who can turn a compelling merge fantasy into a clear, generous, and sustainable player journey.
You will own the economic and systemic foundations that connect core merging, progression, events, monetisation, and long-term engagement.
This is a senior, hands-on design role for someone with proven economy design experience in successful merge games.
You will partner with creative leadership and a multidisciplinary team to build an economy that feels intuitive to players, performs against product goals, and can evolve confidently through development and live operation.
Your role within the Kingdom
You will be the principal owner and champion of economy design for the game, setting a high bar for systemic clarity, player value, and commercial sustainability.
Specifically, you will:
- Own the design, modelling, balancing,



and ongoing health of the game economy across the full player lifecycle, from first-session experience through long-term progression and live events.
- Define the Merge 2 economy: merge chains, generators, energy and action loops, currencies, rewards, inventories, orders, unlocks, progression gates, and the relationships between them.
- Design progression systems and content pacing that create clear short-, mid-, and long-term goals while preserving meaningful player choice and satisfying merge moments.
- Build and maintain economy models, simulations, and tools that forecast progression, currency flows, resource pressure, feature impact, and balancing changes.
- Establish healthy sources and sinks for currencies and resources, ensuring the economy is understandable, resilient, and appropriately tuned for both engaged and paying players.
- Partner with Creative, Product, Data, Design, Art, Engineering, and U

📌 Principal Economy Designer | New Games (Barcelona)
🏢 970 KING SHARED SERVICES
📍 Barcelona