Level Designer - 6 Month FTC/Freelance Contract, Electric Square

Overview

Level Designer role on a critically acclaimed AAA franchise, working in a Brighton-based team to design and build levels for the game.

What you'll do

• Strive to achieve the level design goals for the game.
• Create clear and concise level design documentation.
• Pitch level ideas and improvements in a clear and digestible way.
• Plan and implement metric conforming level blockouts in-engine.
• Work in close collaboration with other disciplines to ensure features, assets, and visual language are well considered and successfully integrated into the level.
• Maintain and balance the flow and readability of levels.
• Solve problems by working with other departments.
• Communicate effectively with others to align, playtest, iterate, and improve levels.
• Reflect on and act accordingly to feedback.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of professional experience as a designer working on levels.
• Worked on at least one AAA FPS title.
• Expertise in level design concepts and level layouts.
• Experience of combat and encounter design.
• Strong proficiency in design tools used in UE5 or equivalent proprietary game engine.
• Experience in the level blockout phase, understanding feature requirements, and building spaces that support mechanics.
• Knowledge of support tools such as Miro, Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent bug diagnosis and debugging skills.
• Confident 3D level blockout and prototyping skills.
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable with asking for and providing feedback.
• Able to manage time and workload effectively.
• Self-motivated and takes initiative.

Nice to have

• Experience of melee and ranged combat.
• Experience with cinematic set-pieces.

Details

• Brighton-based team; applicants need to be within 2 hours of the GMT time zone.
• Full Time, Permanent working pattern, remote.
• Location: Europe, United Kingdom.