Senior Game Designer

About This Role

This senior game designer role focuses on creating high-quality puzzle levels for mobile games, ensuring engaging challenges and strong gameplay variety. It involves balancing difficulty, optimizing based on player data, and improving level design systems and tools. The position requires cross-functional leadership and support for live operations, mentoring junior designers, and taking ownership of overall level quality and difficulty health.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and iterate high-quality puzzle levels with clear goals, engaging challenges, and strong gameplay variety
• Ensure levels effectively introduce, combine, and evolve game mechanics throughout the player journey
• Maintain consistent level quality and design standards across the game
• Review and provide feedback on levels created by other Level Designers
• Define and maintain the overall difficulty curve, progression pacing, and challenge distribution
• Balance levels using both design judgment and player performance data such as win rate, attempts, fail rate, booster usage, and churn
• Collaborate with Product and Data teams to integrate Level Balancing with Player Segmentation, delivering appropriate difficulty experiences for different player groups
• Design and validate balancing rules for different player states, such as struggling, stable, and high-skill players
• Continuously identify difficulty spikes, frustration points, and overly easy sections and propose balancing solutions
• Analyze level and player performance data to identify opportunities for improving retention, engagement, and progression
• Develop hypotheses and support A/B tests related to difficulty, level configuration, progression, and personalized balancing
• Evaluate experiment results and translate insights into actionable level design improvements
• Establish key level health metrics and monitoring practices for continuous optimization
• Build and maintain level design frameworks, difficulty standards, templates, and reusable design guidelines
• Collaborate with Developers to improve internal tools for level creation, testing, balancing, configuration, and publishing
• Explore AI-assisted and procedural level generation to accelerate content production and generate level variations
• Improve the level production pipeline to increase testing speed and scalability while maintaining quality
• Collaborate closely with Product, Game Design, Development, Data, Art, and QA teams to align level design with product goals
• Support LiveOps events, limited-time modes, and new gameplay features with appropriate level content and difficulty strategies
• Mentor Junior/Mid Level Designers and provide structured design feedback