Principal Economy Designer (Merge 2)

Company

hirify.global is a mobile interactive entertainment company known for the Candy Crush franchise and other free-to-play games, with around 200 million monthly players.

What you will do

• Own the design, modelling, balancing, and long-term health of the economy across the full player lifecycle.
• Define the Merge 2 economy, including merge chains, generators, energy loops, currencies, rewards, inventories, orders, unlocks, and progression gates.
• Design progression systems and content pacing that create meaningful short-, mid-, and long-term goals.
• Build economy models, simulations, and tools to forecast progression, currency flows, resource pressure, and feature impact.
• Design and balance meta, social, event, and monetisation systems that support retention, engagement, and revenue.
• Partner with Creative, Product, Data, Design, Art, Engineering, and UX, while leading economy reviews and mentoring designers.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and balancing economies for merge games, ideally Merge 2 titles.
• Experience owning or materially shaping economies in free-to-play mobile games through development and live operation.
• Strong understanding of how economy design affects motivation, retention, session frequency, monetisation, content cadence, and perceived fairness.
• Ability to build spreadsheet models, simulations, and practical tools, and to use product data and experimentation to balance systems.
• Strong systems thinhirify.global, design judgement, written communication, presentation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
• Enthusiasm for free-to-play games, merge games, and player-first economy design.

Nice to have

• Experience tahirify.global a merge game from concept or soft launch through live operation.
• Experience with economy telemetry, SQL, BI tools, or scripting.
• Experience designing live events, offers, segmentation strategies, or content frameworks for a merge title.
• Experience mentoring designers or leading economy design across multiple features or teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a multidisciplinary game development team on a new, unannounced title.
• Collaborate closely with creative leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Influence the economic direction of a game from its early foundations through live operation.
• Contribute to design standards, documentation, review practices, and the wider design community.