Hybrid Senior Economy Designer

at Lighthouse Games

• Job title: Senior Economy Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Economy Designer designing in-game economies and progression systems at Lighthouse Games. Collaborating across teams to ensure player engagement and satisfaction through economic design.

Responsibilities

• Design, model, and tune in-game economies including currencies, sources/sinks, pacing, and reward distribution.
• Define and maintain progression systems, live events, and reward structures that drive engagement and sustain healthy player progression.
• Establish economic models and set parameters to maintain balance and prevent inflation/deflation across the player base.
• Partner with Analytics to monitor key metrics, set alerts for economic anomalies, and implement corrective adjustments when necessary.
• Define pricing frameworks and value propositions for in-game content, offers, and bundles (including regional considerations).
• Translate high-level design goals into clear economy specs, data tables, and configuration templates with acceptance criteria and rollback plans.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, UI/UX, and analytics teams to develop, test, and deploy live economy updates safely and efficiently.
• Specify telemetry requirements for tracking key performance indicators such as retention, progression pacing, and player engagement.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing or tuning in-game economies, progression systems, or meta layers, with at least one shipped title or live update supported post-launch.
• Strong craft in systems and economy design: currencies, pacing, reward loops, and player motivation.
• Proven ability to identify and correct economic imbalances (inflation, reward loops, drop rate tuning).
• Experience delivering scalable meta systems such as seasonal progression, collection loops, or reward ladders.
• A modular, data-driven mindset – you build reusable systems, templates, and tools that scale safely with content.
• Comfortable working hands-on with editor tools and data models to iterate quickly and effectively.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to clearly define systems and their intended outcomes.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including proficiency with Excel/Sheets (pivots, lookups, modelling).
• A strong sense of player empathy and value perception across different audiences and regions.
• **Desirable**
• Background in behavioural economics, or formal training in micro/macro-economics.
• Experience working with first-party platforms, regional pricing, and entitlement systems.
• Familiarity with live service pipelines, telemetry systems, and rollback planning.
• Exposure to content pipelines and localisation workflows.
• Basic SQL or Python knowledge for data analysis and validation.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday, plus 1 day for your birthday
• Studio Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare
• Health and Well-Being Benefits
• Dental Care
• Optical treatments
• Mental Health Support