Full-Time Senior Level Designer

Mob Entertainment, a startup multimedia studio, is looking for a Senior Level Designer to guide level design for the Poppy Playtime franchise.

You'll collaborate with directors, ensuring levels are tense, well-paced, and atmospheric. This hands-on role involves shaping structure and vision, mentoring designers, and building compelling spaces in Unreal Engine 5.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on level design pipeline, aligning with gameplay, narrative, and technical constraints.
• Collaborate with directors to define experience goals and spatial rhythms.
• Prototype, build, and iterate levels in Unreal Engine.
• Work with Gameplay Designers, Writers, Engineers, and Artists.
• Maintain strong documentation, workflow clarity, and progress visibility.
• Lead playtests and design reviews, gathering feedback.
• Balance level aesthetics, readability, and performance.
• Help shape level design culture and team capability.

Requirements:

• 6+ years professional game design experience, focusing on level design.
• 2+ years experience in mentoring.
• Proficiency in Unreal Engine 5, using Blueprints.
• Portfolio demonstrating authored or led level work (first-person, puzzle, or horror).
• Strong grasp of spatial pacing, gameplay, environmental storytelling, and encounter flow.
• Experience collaborating with narrative teams.
• Comfort with high-level vision and hands-on production (greyboxing, paper designs).
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with source control (Perforce), task management tools, and level design documentation.

Pluses:

• Experience with narrative-focused or horror adventure games.
• Familiarity with modular environment workflows and LD/Art pipeline coordination.
• Experience with procedural or systemic game spaces.
• Strong instincts for emotional pacing, building tension.

Performance Expectations:

• Drive vision, quality, and execution of level design.
• Empower and support level design team.
• Refine and maintain structure, pipeline, and review cadence.
• Collaborate and lead across the design team.

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