Economy Designer | New Games

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Principal Economy and System Designer

Unannounced Merge 2 Game

Join our team and help shape an unannounced Merge 2 game from the ground up. We are looking for a Principal Economy and System Designer who can turn a compelling merge fantasy into a clear, generous, and sustainable player journey. You will own the economic and systemic foundations that connect core merging, progression, events, monetisation, and long-term engagement.

This is a senior, hands-on design role for someone with proven economy design experience in successful merge games. You will partner with creative leadership and a multidisciplinary team to build an economy that feels intuitive to players, performs against product goals, and can evolve confidently through development and live operation.

You will be the principal owner and champion of economy design for the game, setting a high bar for systemic clarity, player value, and commercial sustainability. Specifically, you will:

Why This Role

You will have the opportunity to establish the economic DNA of a new game and influence its direction at every level. This role is ideal for a principal designer who wants to combine deep merge-game expertise with creative leadership, rigorous analysis, and close collaboration to build an experience players will return to for years.

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.