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 UX to translate the game vision into coherent systems, features, and player experiences.
* Design and balance meta, social, event, and monetisation systems that support retention, engagement, and revenue without compromising player trust or the core merge experience.
* Use quantitative analysis, player research, playtests, and qualitative feedback to identify opportunities, diagnose issues, and make clear,



evidence-led recommendations.
* Lead economy reviews and communicate complex system behaviour, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and the wider game team.
* Set standards for economy craft, documentation, and review practices; mentor other designers and contribute to the broader design community. Skills to create thrills
* Demonstrable, hands-on experience designing and balancing economies for merge games. Experience on Merge 2 titles is strongly preferred, with a clear understanding of generators, merge chains, board pressure, energy loops, order systems, and progression pacing.
* A record of owning or materially shaping economies on games in development and live operation, ideally in free-to-play mobile games with meaningful scale.
* Deep understanding of how merge-game economy decisions affect player motivation, retention, session frequency, monetisation, content cadence, and the perceived fairness of the game.
* Strong analytical capability and confidence building spreadsheet models, simulations, and practical tools to test assumptions and communicate outcomes.
* Experience using product data and experimentation to balance systems,



assess feature performance, and improve player journeys.
Excellent systems thinking: able to connect individual mechanics into a coherent whole, anticipate second-order effects, and simplify complexity for players and teammates.
* Strong design judgement, written communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to create clear specifications and align varied senior perspectives.
* A collaborative leadership style. You are comfortable working across disciplines, giving constructive feedback, and creating momentum in an evolving development environment.
* Genuine enthusiasm for free-to-play games, merge games, and the craft of building player-first economies. Nice to Have
* Experience taking a merge game from concept or soft launch through live operation.
* Experience with economy telemetry, SQL, BI tools, or scripting used to investigate player behaviour and validate economy hypotheses.
* Experience designing live events, offers, segmentation strategies, or content frameworks for a merge title.
* Experience mentoring designers or leading economy design across multiple features or teams. Why This Role You will have the opportunity to establish the economic DNA of a new game and influence its direction at every level. This role is idóneo for a principal designer who wants to combine deep merge-game expertise with creative leadership, rigorous analysis, and close collaboration to build an experience players will return to for years. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Principal Economy Designer (Cataluña)
🏢 King
📍 Cataluña