UserWise Services

External game dev teams using AI

Live-Ops Game Designer - Mobile F2P

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Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

3–5 years of game design experience in free-to-play mobile games, focused on LiveOps, economy, and systems design.
Experience designing and balancing game economies, including hard-currency pricing and value perception, sinks and taps, inflation management, long-term economy health, and utility and satisfaction of player rewards.
Hands-on experience designing and balancing LiveOps events from concept to launch, with a focus on engagement and calendar planning.
Experience with feature-unlock sequencing and progression pacing.
Practical experience designing offers, event monetization loops, and consumable and non-consumable item monetization; familiarity with in-app purchases and in-app advertising and optimizing them for performance.
Ability to use data and metrics to guide design decisions, balance tuning, and post-launch iteration.
Fluent spoken and written English, including speech, reading, writing, and comprehension, for collaboration and documentation.

Responsibilities

Design and balance LiveOps events end-to-end, focusing on engagement, retention, and clear goals; work within and contribute to a LiveOps calendar.
Design and balance game economies, including hard-currency pricing, sinks and taps, inflation control, and clear utility and value for players.
Own or contribute to feature-unlock sequencing and progression pacing so players experience a clear, satisfying journey.
Design offers, event-monetization loops, and itemization; work across consumable and non-consumable monetization and optimize in-app purchases and in-app advertising where applicable.
Use data to validate assumptions, conduct and track A/B tests, tune and balance player progression, and improve event performance.
Own LiveOps strategy, game economy health, and systems design focused on engagement, retention, sustainable monetization, and player experience.

Desired Qualifications

Experience working on established or licensed intellectual properties.
Experience with live games with frequent content and event cadences.

Live-Ops Game Designer - Mobile F2P

UserWise Services · Serbia (Remote) · — · Posted 2026-02-20

Workplace: remote

Department: Design

Description

Live-Ops Game Designer — Mobile F2P

Location: Serbia, Romania, Turkey, Poland

Experience: 3–5 years in F2P mobile game design with a track-record of shipped titles with successes & learnings in Live-ops.

Focus: LiveOps, economy, & systems design

About the role

We’re looking for a Live-Ops Game Designer to join our team working on established & highly successful IP’s in the mobile free-to-play space. You will own LiveOps strategy, game economy health, and systems design focused on driving engagement, retention, and sustainable monetization while keeping the player experience at the centre.

Requirements

What you’ll do

LiveOps & events - Design and balance LiveOps events end-to-end with a strong focus on engagement, retention, and clear goals; work within and contribute to a LiveOps calendar.
Economy & systems - Design and balance game economies: hard currency (HC) pricing, sinks and taps, inflation control, and delivering clear utility and value to players.
Progression & pacing - Own or contribute to feature unlock sequencing and progression pacing so players experience a clear, satisfying journey.
Monetization - Design offers, event-monetization loops, and itemization. Work across consumable and non-consumable monetization and optimize for both IAP and IAA where applicable.
Data & iteration - Use data to validate assumptions, conduct and track AB tests, tune/balance player progression, and improve event performance.

What we’re looking for

3–5 years of game design experience in free-to-play mobile, with a clear focus on LiveOps, economy, and systems design.
Economy design: Experience designing and balancing economies including:
Hard currency (HC) pricing and value perception
Sinks and taps design and balancing
Managing inflation and long-term economy health
Delivering tangible reward utility and satisfaction to players
LiveOps: Hands-on experience designing and balancing LiveOps events from concept to launch, with a focus on engagement and calendar planning.
Progression & systems: Experience with feature unlock sequencing and progression pacing.
Monetization: Practical experience in designing offers, designing monetization loops within events, consumable vs non-consumable item monetization; familiarity with IAP and IAA and optimizing them for performance.
Data-driven: Comfortable using data and metrics to drive design decisions, balance tuning, and post-launch iteration.
Fluent English: Excellent spoken and written English (speech, reading, writing, and comprehension) for collaboration and documentation.

Nice to have

Experience working on established or licensed IPs.
Experience with live games with frequent content/event cadences.

Soft skills & fit

We value candidates who are:

Focused and clear - You communicate design intent and trade-offs clearly and stay on top of priorities.
Hard-working - You take ownership, meet deadlines, and care about quality.
Team players - You collaborate well with product, analytics, art, and engineering and contribute to a positive, constructive work-culture.

Benefits

Market competitive, USD salaries
Paid Time Off
Performance Bonus
Annual Performance Reviews

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About the Company

UserWise Services

External game dev teams using AI

UserWise Services builds high-performance external teams for game studios to move fast, scale intelligently, and operate for the long term. They focus on new game development, LiveOps, growth, maintenance, and portfolio-level product execution, embedding teams that act like internal staff. How it works: their teams take ownership and run production and LiveOps using a proprietary AI-powered toolset that accelerates design, content creation, LiveOps execution, and decision-making as part of daily workflows. The company differentiates itself through a distributed, senior-leaning workforce and tools that reduce friction across design, art, engineering, data, and LiveOps, enabling decisions grounded in player impact. Their goal is to help partners grow games to large, sustainable outcomes, already supporting studios managing $100M+ in annual revenue across portfolios, with operations across the US and EU.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Madison, WI
Founded: 2020

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