Mathematician - Level 1 at Derivco

Portfolio is an established team of experienced and diverse business experts who are passionate about creating legendary gaming experiences. We manage and curates the largest portfolio of games, playing a crucial role in expanding and protecting our global footprint by ensuring our best games meet regulatory, technology, operator and player requirements whilst retaining brand integrity that has stood the test of time. Our focus areas have expanded to include Game Design; responsible for evolving the product portfolio by way of introducing new and known game mechanics in compelling and innovative ways that will attract and entertain an even wider player audience.

In modifying and improving math of our existing library of games to support these product strategies the game design mathematician will be required to design and create new game experiences in a participative environment, collaborating with product owners, artists, software development and marketing teams to build and guide the player experience, trouble shoot implementation where necessary and provide support to math queries from concept through to launch.

Key responsibilities include creating statistical models to understand expected value, standard deviation and probability distribution of different game events and where science meets art - balancing the player experience to ensure the game creates excitement and entertainment for our players.

You will have the support of a network of like-minded people, the core Game Intelligence team of ‘Mathletes’, as you grow your game design craft and exposure across all parts of business to exponentially grow your career with Portfolio. This is an amazing opportunity to join our experienced team of creative, business and technical experts to be part of creating Portfolio’s next chapter and is one that shouldn’t be missed. Game on?

Key Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, develop and verify mathematical models for games
• Collaborate with team of experts to refine commercial game concepts
• Partner with software teams to guide the math implementation and player experience,
• Identify opportunities and industry trends to innovate and improve product design
• Research & develop new tools and processes
• Provide Support for Mathematical Queries
• Monitoring game performance in the market to provide customer insight.

Key Requirements

• Post-graduate degree in math, stats, physics or computer science with 75% aggregate or more
• Advanced mathematical and problem solving skills
• Experience with mathematical and statistical modelling
• Microsoft Excel, XML, coding in C#
• Domain and product knowledge is advantageous
• Communication Skills
• Team Player