Level Designers - 2025 Opportunities

1 Month ago • 2-8 Years • Level Design

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Job Description

Keywords Studios is seeking talented Level Designers to join their team and contribute to innovative game titles. As a Level Designer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining documentation for all owned environments, designing and building immersive levels, adhering to project vision and best practices, providing constructive feedback during level reviews, playing the game regularly and providing suggestions, understanding and implementing narrative and gameplay ambitions, and collaborating with a creative team. This role requires experience as a Senior Level Designer on at least two published console titles, a strong understanding of level flow, metrics, and pacing, a good visual eye for scene setting, sight lines, and vistas, proven experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5, greyboxing levels to a professional standard, scripting gameplay content, enemy placement, and excellent communication skills.
Must have:
  • Senior Level Designer experience on 2+ published console titles
  • Strong understanding of level flow, metrics, and pacing
  • Visual eye for scene setting, sight lines, and vistas
  • Unreal Engine 4/5 experience
  • Greyboxing levels to a professional standard
  • Gameplay content scripting
  • Enemy placement
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Level design experience for third-person action games
  • Mentoring experience for junior Level Designers
Perks:
  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • Projects aligned with your expertise
  • Collaborate with industry leaders on AAA titles
  • Professional growth opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Fully Remote opportunity
  • Dedicated to diversity and inclusion
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • IT schemes
  • Pensions
  • Healthcare
  • Social events
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Description

Keywords Studios is the leading provider of creative and technical services to over 950 clients, including major AAA developers and publishers such as Microsoft, Bandai Namco, and PlayStation. With a global network of 75+ studios, we co-develop games and provide comprehensive support across all aspects of game development including Localization, QA, Audio Services, Art Production, Game Development, Marketing services and much more. Our teams bring the visions of industry leaders to life, whether enhancing iconic franchises or building new projects from the ground up.

About the Role:

In 2025, we’re excited to expand our studios worldwide! We’re looking to bring on board talented level designers to join our team and bring their unique touch to renowned game titles.

At Keywords Studios, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to innovative game titles, working alongside a dynamic team of creative professionals. Your work will play a key role in upholding the high-quality standards and exceptional service that Keywords Studios is renowned for across the globe.

If you're ready to make an impact in the gaming industry and help shape the future of gaming, we’d love to hear from you!

Key responsibilities: 

  • Build and maintain documentation for all owned environments.
  • Design and build large, immersive levels that create memorable gameplay experiences.
  • Keep to project vision for best practices, methodologies used and quality benchmark.
  • As part of level reviews, able to provide constructive critique and solutions.
  • Regularly play the game and provide suggestions and feedback in a clear and constructive manner.
  • Able to understand and action the narrative and gameplay ambitions for the levels.

Requirements

  • Experience working as a Senior Level Designer on at least two published console titles.
  • A strong grasp of level flow, metrics & pacing.
  • A good visual eye for scene setting, sight lines, vistas and areas of interest.
  • Proven experience working within Unreal Engine 4 or 5, as well as with Blueprinting.
  • Experience of greyboxing levels to a professional standard.
  • Experience in scripting gameplay content in levels such as events, interactions and encounters.
  • Experience with enemy placement/spawn points.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a creative and multidisciplinary team.
  • Level design experience for third person action games is a benefit.
  • Experience of mentoring more junior Level Designers.

Benefits

Here are some of the benefits our studios can offer:

    • Competitive salary and benefits
    • Projects aligned with your expertise
    • Collaborate with industry leaders on AAA titles
    • Professional growth opportunities
    • Flexible work arrangements
    • Fully Remote opportunity
    • Dedicated to diversity and inclusion
    • Additional perks: cycle-to-work, IT schemes, pensions, healthcare, social events, and more.

Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment:Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any adjustments during the process please let us know in your application. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We especially welcome applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the industry.

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By providing your information in this application, you understand that we will collect and process your information in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice. For more information, please see our Applicant Privacy Notice at https://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/applicant-privacy-notice.

Role Information: EN
Studio: Keywords Studios
Location: Europe, United Kingdom, Ireland
Area of Work: Design
Service: Create
Employment Type: Full Time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, on-site, remote

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