Game Economy Manager

🤩 Would you like to play with us?

Whatwapp is a leading mobile game company in Italy with three major titles, focusing on casual games. The company, comprising around fifty diverse team members, operates in English and supports hybrid work options. Whatwapp is transitioning from a startup to a scale-up, aiming to expand globally and innovate within the gaming industry. We encourage a flat hierarchy, allowing rapid idea execution and learning opportunities directly from our leaders, with a commitment to the personal and professional growth of our employees.

We are looking for a Game Economy Manager to join us.

The ideal candidate is hungry for a win, smiles when facing a challenge, and is always ready for another round.

📖 Your quests will be to:

• Collaborate with product owners, game designers and developers in defining new game features as to set healthy incentives and keep the game economy balanced
• Design the structure and parameters you will use to control and configure a feature
• Create configurations for new features, live-ops challenges, in-app-purchase offers, bonus plans and more
• Find useful players’ segmentations for optimizing different KPIs
• Control the pricing in the game – both for in-game currencies and real money
• Optimize configurations using data analysis and A/B testing
• Balance engagement aspects of user experience with revenue-increasing strategies
• Monitor important in-game economic KPIs and maintain a balanced economy
• Plan ab tests for existing / new features to steadily improve performance

🎮 To start playing, you will need:

• Experience in F2P online / mobile gaming economy
• A skill for modeling complex structures
• Knowledge in statistics and probability theory
• Excellent control of Excel
• Curious to understand why things are happening

👤 The type of player you are:

• A game lover
• Hungry for a win
• A careful and detailed planner
• Data-oriented
• Enjoys solving problems and puzzles
• Critical thinker

👑 Our company values:

• Use critical thinking: don't assume, validate your gut feeling!
• Take ownership and make it happen!
• Love what you do and have fun doing it!
• Work on the problem, not just the symptoms!
• Don't overcomplicate it, keep it simple and effective!
• Share ideas to reduce bias and improve results!

🌈 Power-ups to have more fun

🏡 Smart Working policy

🥳 An innovative, dynamic, and friendly work environment in which you will have the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, thanks to our amazing team

🏢 Amazing HQ office in the center of Milan (M2 – Stazione Garibaldi)

🇬🇧 English courses provided by a native teacher (related to your English level)

🎤 Monthly Product/Design/Marketing/Tech panels to be aligned with all departments’ results

💻 Amazing workstation with the latest MacBook Pro and a Display Screen (Whatever makes you work better is welcome!)

📄 A top-notch contract proposal

🍽️ Ticket restaurant when working from the office

🍕 Free Coffee & Beer; once a month pizza lunch together

🕙 Flexible work hours

🏄 Internal Team Building events

🛋️ Relax Area with Sofà, Foosball Table, and Board Games

Don't live in Milan? Check out our work model

Building community and having a place to connect with each other is very important for us. We like not only to work together, but to have time to get to know each other, to celebrate and have fun. We also value people's choice to work from anywhere, that's why we have a very flexible hybrid model.

Our policy is 4 days per month at the office, and we decide however we're gonna go. There are people who like to go once every week, or two days every two weeks, four days straight, or even combining the last 4 days of one month with the first 4 days of the next month and only go 8 days straight every two months. Whatever works best for you!

If you don’t live in Italy, we have two options: if you would like to relocate, our company offers a relocation package to help you move to Milan; if you want to stay where you are, we offer a benefit to help you with travel expenses and flexible working hours around your journey time.