Economy & Balancing Game Designer – Casual HTML5 Games

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🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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CoolGames

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51 - 200 employees

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Gaming • Media • B2C

CoolGames is a pioneering company in the field of cloud gaming, dedicated to reshaping the mobile gaming experience. By leveraging cloud technology, CoolGames allows players to enjoy HTML5 games instantly without the need for downloads, making it easy to play and share games across social media, messenger platforms, and websites. CoolGames is committed to developing and distributing high-quality cloud-based HTML5 games for a global audience. Its collaborations with notable entities like Netflix, Hasbro, and Facebook showcase its leadership in casual and mobile gaming platforms. With successful titles like MONOPOLY Sudoku and Angry Birds on Facebook Messenger, CoolGames continues to be at the forefront of instant gaming experiences.

📋 Description

• Design and balance the economy, progression, and reward systems of casual games from initial design sessions through live operations • Own the revenue outcome of the economies designed • Build and maintain economy models, balancing sheets, and simulations for each title • Model and simulate changes before they ship • Use player data and A/B tests to identify friction points, progression bottlenecks, and monetization opportunities • Demonstrate how balancing proposals affect retention and revenue • Design motivation loops and cohesive LiveOps event ecosystems • Communicate design rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to the team and studio • Take ownership of a title’s economy when moving between projects • Research comparable games’ economy structures, pacing, and pricing • Collaborate within a multidisciplinary agile team on new titles, live games, tools, and scalable processes

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years designing, balancing, and operating the economies of successful, released free-to-play games on mobile and/or HTML5, including casual or puzzle titles • Comfortable being accountable for a title’s KPIs and defending decisions • Advanced spreadsheet and modeling skills, including balancing, simulation, and forecasting models • Fluent use of AI tools to build and analyze models faster • Strong analytical mindset and ability to translate data into concrete design changes • Deep understanding of player motivation, retention mechanics, LiveOps, and monetization design • Empathy for what the casual audience will and will not accept • Independent and proactive, with ability to quickly get up to speed on a new game and its audience • Excellent English • Experience working in remote, multidisciplinary teams • Habit of benchmarking and knowledge of leading games’ economies in relevant genres • CV and, where possible, a portfolio, economy models or balancing sheets, shipped games, design documents, or examples demonstrating thinking about progression, monetization, and player experience

🏖️ Benefits

• An international team of 80+ professionals from almost 20 different countries • Work closely with some of the biggest upcoming game platforms in the world on high-quality casual games that are played by millions of players • Competitive remuneration • A flexible remote working environment • A very open, informal, and international company culture where everyone can make a difference