Game Level Designer

About This Role

PeopleFun's New Games Team is looking for a Level Designer who lives in level editors, feeds on ideation, and brings smiles to players' faces with delightful surprises around every corner. This role involves building, tuning, and shipping levels for original casual mobile games, focusing on player retention and creating unforgettable early game experiences. You will join a small, senior-heavy incubation team where your levels go in front of real players within weeks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and tune levels in Unity or custom level editors, and prompt AI to improve these same tools as you go
• Shape the player progression across the level ramp, including introducing new mechanics and pacing the difficulty level (with hard levels intentionally balanced by breathers)
• Invent new goals, blockers, and boosters within an existing game, and prove them out with sample puzzle layouts or vibe-coded prototypes
• Use playtests to find where players struggle or get bored, and rebuild levels in response
• Review level-by-level metrics (attempts, win rate, completion time, drop-off) with data partners and retune the ramp each release
• Play and tear down the top casual games on a regular basis, and bring any lessons that apply to games back to the team
• Maintain shared docs on level design & intent – featured mechanic, target difficulty, metrics or analysis of every level, so anyone on the team can work on the ramp alongside you
• Partner with engineers to improve the game, including procedural and AI-assisted level generation
• Move across two or more prototypes at different stages, and let go of work quickly when a test tells us to pivot

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional level design experience on casual games, OR 3+ years of professional experience in related disciplines on mobile games
• Hands-on experience building levels using level editors
• Comfort with Unity and the basic tools of game development (like source control)
• Working knowledge of level design fundamentals: progression, pacing, difficulty curves, and onboarding (FTUE)
• Demonstrated experience revising your own designs based on playtest feedback
• Clear written and verbal communication of design intent, to collaborate with artists, animators, engineers, and product partners
• Ability to work on a hybrid schedule from the Dallas-area office

Nice to have:

• Shipped levels in a puzzle, word, block, or match game, with samples you can share (level breakdowns, ramp sheets, or a portfolio)
• Experience reading level funnels and tuning from data; familiarity with tools like Looker, BigQuery, Tableau, etc.
• Experience prototyping new mechanics with AI (or on paper or in whitebox) to test them before engineering investment