System & Economy Designer – Intermediate/Senior

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About the role

  • Systems and economy designer improving progression, economies, monetization, and live operations for A Thinking Ape’s long-running social mobile games. Using models, data, and player insight to guide launches and iteration.

Responsibilities

  • Design, balance, maintain, and iterate on progression systems, currencies, reward structures, monetization systems, and other core game systems
  • Investigate complex system and economy problems, uncover root causes, and develop solutions
  • Build spreadsheet models to simulate progression, balance economies, and forecast outcomes
  • Lead design initiatives from problem definition and scoping through implementation and launch with Product, Engineering, Creative, Community, and other designers
  • Use data, player behaviour, and community feedback to guide decisions, define success metrics, and evaluate outcomes
  • Improve tools, frameworks, documentation, and processes, including scripting, AI, and automation
  • Participate in live-ops on-call rotation for several days per month and respond to urgent issues
  • Monitor player sentiment, community discussions, and free-to-play mobile market trends
  • Mentor, support, and collaborate with other designers

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of experience in game design, with a focus on systems or economy design
  • Experience working on free-to-play games, preferably live service mobile games
  • Strong understanding of F2P economies, progression, monetization, and retention mechanics
  • Strong familiarity with the free-to-play mobile market and genuine interest in understanding its games, systems, and player behaviours
  • Strong spreadsheet skills and experience building models to simulate balance, progression, or economic outcomes
  • Strong data literacy, including familiarity with F2P KPIs and using data to investigate problems and evaluate design changes
  • Experience owning design projects through implementation, launch, analysis, and subsequent iteration
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex systems and design rationale clearly across disciplines
  • Experience with strategy, farming, puzzle adventure/exploration, or match-3 games (nice to have)
  • SQL query and/or Looker experience (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Flexible, safe, inclusive work environment
  • Autonomy and supportive leadership
  • Career development space and resources
  • Health and wellbeing support
  • Equipment provided
  • Home workspace setup support
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Three weeks of vacation to start
  • Flexible sick days
  • Generous health benefits package
  • Competitive and equitable compensation
  • Perks

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$109,000 - CA$124,500 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

SQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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