Game Economist / Economy Designer - Social Discovery app
Blue
Throne is a
- first company
that work from all around the world.
Our specialty is turning product
- fit apps into companies. We have over 50 million organic downloads
and 4. 6 million monthly active users.
With a mission to transform i
OS and Android applications to a new scale, we’ve achieved a remarkable ARR in just 25 months, exemplifying sustainable growth and innovation.
Our team, rich in tech entrepreneurship and mobile marketing expertise, thrives in an environment that values agility, growth mindset, flexibility, creativity, and tangible outcomes.
Game Economist / Economy Designer - Social Discovery app
First things first, if you are looking for a fully remote role with flexible hours, unlimited time off, and are based somewhere in Europe or Asia, read on.
About Blue
Throne
Embark on a transformative journey with Blue
Throne, a pioneer in the mobile app domain.
Our specialisation: Turning indie apps into market leaders, boasting over 49. 5 million downloads and 4. 6 million monthly active users.
Our mission: Propel i
OS and Android applications to new heights. We've organically achieved a remarkable $8M ARR in just 25 months, exemplifying sustainable growth and innovation.
Our team: Rich in tech entrepreneurship and mobile marketing expertise, we thrive in an environment that values agility, growth mindset, flexibility, creativity, and tangible outcomes.
At Blue
Throne, your career is more than a job—a journey toward excellence in an innovative culture where high performance is as valued as innovation.
About our social discovery app
You will join one of our brightest stars: a social app rapidly becoming the global
- to platform for Gen Z to discover
- minded people and create meaningful friendships.
Our product, live in multiple countries, has achieved 30 million organic downloads, demonstrating a strong
- market fit. We are now ready to scale the product exponentially, from 1 to 10 and then from 10 to 100.
You’ll love it here if:
- You prefer flexible hours, unlimited time off, and the ability to work from anywhere.
- You are naturally curious and eager to make an impact for both the users and the business.
- You enjoy wearing multiple hats - we value experts but appreciate jacks of all trades.
- You thrive in a
- free, calm, and systematic
- solving environment.
- You love challenges and are always ready to roll up your sleeves.
- You believe in working smarter, not harder - prioritizing productivity and quality over punching the clock.
- Above all, you follow your passion and have fun while doing it.
Your Mission
- free, calm, and systematic
- solving environment.
We are looking for an experienced Game Economist / Economy Designer, preferably with experience in game economies. In this role, you will support the General Manager in shaping the app’s virtual economy to drive growth in engagement and revenue. You’ll collaborate closely with the
- functional product team to design systems that optimise our virtual currency, user resources and reward mechanics.
The perfect fit for this role is someone with
- on experience balancing supply and demand by managing the inflation and deflation of virtual currencies, goods, and services. You deeply understand the interplay between price and demand, quality and price, and quality and demand. Beyond that, you excel at translating virtual economic systems into
- world spending behaviours, ensuring every aspect of the economy aligns with user engagement and monetisation goals.
What you’ll be doing- Design and implement virtual economies by developing sustainable and
- centric economic systems, including virtual currencies, reward systems, and resource flows.
- Analyse user behaviour and transaction data to understand how users interact with features, identify areas for optimisation, and ensure systems align with user needs and business objectives.
- Create models for subscription pricing,
- app purchases, and virtual goods to drive monetisation strategies and ensure they balance user value with revenue growth.
- Explore segmentation based on behavioural theories and data to recommend new strategies for influencing feature design and build economic models to accurately forecast revenue and user engagement.
- Monitor and maintain the economic health of the app by continuously assessing and refining economic systems to prevent inflation, deflation, or unintended user behaviours, ensuring fairness and balance.
- Experiment and iterate on economic systems by collaborating with the product team to design A/B tests and analyse results, using insights to optimise user experiences and monetisation strategies.
- Collaborate with product, design and engineering to ensure economic systems are seamlessly integrated into the app experience.
- Support
- driven
- making by partnering with product analytics and engineering to develop dashboards and predictive models for tracking key economic metrics and performance.
- Promote user satisfaction by designing systems that reward engagement, foster loyalty, and encourage meaningful interactions, ensuring users feel valued and incentivised.
What you’ll need to succeed- You’ve extensive experience analysing complex economic dynamics and making the right modelling tradeoffs by applying strong economic reasoning.
- You have solid experience balancing supply and demand by managing the inflation and deflation of virtual currencies, goods and services. You also strongly understand designing and optimising virtual economies, including resource management, progression and rewards mechanics.
- You believe in
- driven design, with the ability to analyse massive amounts of data on user behaviours to adjust the economy based on performance metrics.
- You know SQL well enough to analyse data independently.
- You're
- versed in behavioural analytics and believe in the scientific approach to experimentation, including A/B testing and multivariate testing. You can lean on significance analysis,
- parametric methods, bootstrapping, and causal inference when needed.
- You’re passionate about keeping
-
- date with market trends and can advise how to fix potential economic issues within the business.
- You can present economy design decisions and impact to stakeholders across the company while constructively challenging and influencing them.
- You can leverage economic theory and market insights to build models for future economic systems demonstrating the scale of opportunity, possible risks, and associated mitigations.
Bonus points
- A degree in mathematics, economics, statistics or other related quantitative fields.
- Big bonus! Experience with gaming, particularly mobile games/F2P/social games, with a strong understanding of player behaviour and virtual economies. Yes, you can take all your experience and knowledge and apply it to a
- gaming social app. - Experience using R or Python.
- Experience in working in the field of economics (outside gaming).
The interview process - First round: a 30-minute conversation with the People team to understand your motivation.
- Second round: a 45-minute discussion with the VP of Growth to explore your background and experience.
- Third round: a 1-hour session with the General Manager, focusing on experimentation, virtual economies and their application to
- world scenarios. - Final round: a 45-minute meeting with the CEO and General Manager, where you will be presented with a challenge that you will solve and discuss.
- centric economic systems, including virtual currencies, reward systems, and resource flows.
- app purchases, and virtual goods to drive monetisation strategies and ensure they balance user value with revenue growth.
- driven
- making by partnering with product analytics and engineering to develop dashboards and predictive models for tracking key economic metrics and performance.
- You’ve extensive experience analysing complex economic dynamics and making the right modelling tradeoffs by applying strong economic reasoning.
- You have solid experience balancing supply and demand by managing the inflation and deflation of virtual currencies, goods and services. You also strongly understand designing and optimising virtual economies, including resource management, progression and rewards mechanics.
- You believe in
- driven design, with the ability to analyse massive amounts of data on user behaviours to adjust the economy based on performance metrics.
- You know SQL well enough to analyse data independently.
- You're
- versed in behavioural analytics and believe in the scientific approach to experimentation, including A/B testing and multivariate testing. You can lean on significance analysis,
- parametric methods, bootstrapping, and causal inference when needed.
- You’re passionate about keeping
-
- date with market trends and can advise how to fix potential economic issues within the business.
- You can present economy design decisions and impact to stakeholders across the company while constructively challenging and influencing them.
- You can leverage economic theory and market insights to build models for future economic systems demonstrating the scale of opportunity, possible risks, and associated mitigations.
Bonus points
- A degree in mathematics, economics, statistics or other related quantitative fields.
- Big bonus! Experience with gaming, particularly mobile games/F2P/social games, with a strong understanding of player behaviour and virtual economies. Yes, you can take all your experience and knowledge and apply it to a
- gaming social app. - Experience using R or Python.
- Experience in working in the field of economics (outside gaming).
The interview process - First round: a 30-minute conversation with the People team to understand your motivation.
- Second round: a 45-minute discussion with the VP of Growth to explore your background and experience.
- Third round: a 1-hour session with the General Manager, focusing on experimentation, virtual economies and their application to
- world scenarios. - Final round: a 45-minute meeting with the CEO and General Manager, where you will be presented with a challenge that you will solve and discuss.
- world scenarios.
Our average process takes 2-4 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. Being Speedy Gonzales is important to us as it is for you.
Equal opportunities for everyone
We prioritise diversity and inclusion to represent our vibrant and diverse community. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work. We strongly encourage applicants of all backgrounds. We consider all candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity, or disability. Please let us know if you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process.
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