Senior Live Ops Designer

Senior Live Ops Designer | London | Full Time

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.  

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way. 

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Senior Live Ops Designer - Top Drives

We are looking for a dynamic Senior Live Ops Designer to join the team on our hugely successful Top Drives title.

As Live Ops Designer you will be responsible for developing and executing live operations strategies to drive player engagement, monetization, and long-term success of the game. Your role will involve overseeing in-game events, offers, and content updates, as well as working with analysts to optimise the game's performance and revenue using player data.

A passion for cars, motorsports and/or racing games is a bonus but, as a minimum, you will be excited and motivated by the prospect of immersing yourself in the Top Drives universe, developing a deep appreciation for why players care about this content and the creative opportunities that exist around it.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own a live ops and monetization strategy that accounts for both audience expectations, as well as the company's business goals.
• Drive the day-to-day execution of the strategy by owning the schedule, targets, and overall success of in-game sales, offers, and live events.
• Collaborate with the wider games team, including Product Managers and other Designers to prioritise and plan live ops activities.
• Own the roadmap of features and tools needed to grow, innovate and improve live ops of Top Drives, and coordinate their development with relevant stakeholders.
• Together with game analysts, conduct quantitative analysis to provide key insights into product performance and uncover opportunities for further engagement and monetization.
• Conduct A/B tests to optimise game retention, engagement and monetization metrics.
• Bring to the team an understanding of best-in-class F2P live ops activities, feature design and monetization mechanics.