Lead Level Designer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $160k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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📋 Description

• Define the vision and direction for levels in collaboration with the Design Director • Set and uphold the level design quality bar across disciplines while balancing scope and constraints • Communicate level goals and intended player experience through vision documents, feedback, and presentations • Conduct level reviews and critiques, providing constructive improvement feedback • Champion playtesting and feedback loops using data and observation to refine flow, pacing, and player clarity • Define and improve level design standards, pipelines, workflows, and best practices • Lead and mentor level designers through guidance, feedback, and coaching • Collaborate with production to plan milestone deliverables and a realistic roadmap • Drive level execution on schedule and escalate when clarity or resources are needed • Cultivate collaboration across design and disciplines and foster an open feedback culture • Own and build levels from pitch and blockout through final polish • Design layouts, puzzles, traversal spaces, and environmental storytelling aligned with gameplay, narrative, and worldbuilding • Collaborate with environment artists, gameplay and content design leads, narrative, and engineering • Author documentation communicating level goals, structure, and intended player experience

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience, ideally 10+ years, designing high quality levels for 3rd person action-adventure games, including ownership of major spaces from concept to polish on multiple shipped titles • Experience leading and mentoring level designers, including setting direction, giving feedback, and supporting their growth • Deep understanding of level design principles, pacing, layout, flow, and intuitive player guidance through gameplay and story • Strong engine proficiency, ideally including Unreal, with hands-on ability from blockout through polish • Ability to define a quality bar, communicate it clearly, and ensure delivery at quality standards while balancing scope and schedule • Experience planning and tracking level work against milestones and coordinating dependencies across disciplines • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Proactive problem-solving and initiative • Ability to give and receive constructive feedback

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities for bonuses • Retirement plan matching • Comprehensive benefits

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