Senior Game Level Designer - Remote

3 Months ago • All levels • Game Design

About the job

Job Description

Senior Game Level Designer with Unreal Engine experience, strong game design principles, and collaborative skills needed. Design, create, and balance levels.
Must have:
  • Unreal Engine
  • Game Design
  • Level Design
  • Collaboration
Good to have:
  • AI Behavior
  • Gameplay Space
  • Player Navigation
  • Design Methodologies
Perks:
  • Global Workforce
  • Training Opportunities
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About the company

PTW is a boutique games services company powered by a global team of passionate, hard-working, and ambitious gamers. For nearly three decades, PTW has expanded rapidly, now boasting 40 sites in 12 countries. Our family of companies, including SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize, enables us to offer a comprehensive range of services from dialogue production and localization to art services and esports management.

We have been dedicated to perfecting the gaming experience for players worldwide, recognizing them as integral members of our community. Our commitment to providing industry-leading solutions has allowed us to work on over 1,500 titles across all genres and platforms, solidifying our reputation in the games industry.

We believe that great work is achieved by teams who love what they do. By leveraging the strength, creativity, and passion of our global workforce, we approach every solution with an all-minds-on-deck strategy - an approach that ensures that we consistently deliver innovative and effective solutions to our clients, helping them accelerate innovation across the globe.

We connect and bring fun to the world!

About the role

PTW’s Portugal studios is looking for a Senior Game Level Designer who will be responsible for designing, creating, and balancing game levels and encounters. You will take concepts from initial ideas through to prototyping, detailed design, and implementation. The role involves collaborating with key stakeholders across multiple disciplines to deliver innovative and high-quality levels, while adhering to industry standards. You will also contribute to the development of design methodologies and best practices within the team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, create, and balance game levels and encounters.
  • Carry ideas from concept through prototyping to implementation.
  • Collaborate effectively with key stakeholders across various disciplines.
  • Demonstrate innovation while adhering to industry standards.
  • Develop knowledge of current design methodologies and practices.
  • Apply design principles from a wide range of games across multiple platforms.
  • Manage time effectively and develop prioritization skills.
  • Balance and pace single-player levels, utilizing AI behaviors and gameplay spaces.
  • Solve problems collaboratively with other departments.
  • Support leads with recruitment and mentoring of junior designers.
  • Utilize metrics to ensure consistency throughout the game.
  • Ensure strong player navigation, signposting, and progression.
  • Create balance, variety, and replayability throughout the player's journey.

Requirements

  • Experience with Unreal Engine ver. 4 or 5
  • Strong understanding of game design principles and player navigation
  • Good interpersonal, communication, and time management skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to take ownership
  • Experience mentoring junior colleagues
  • Familiarity with a variety of game platforms and design practices
  • Ability to adapt and remain flexible
  • Must be in Portugal and have the right to work in Portugal

What we offer:

  • You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and the opportunity to work on some of the biggest game clients, titles, projects, and tech in the world.
  • Attractive remuneration, holidays, regular team competitions with great prizes; and inclusion into an extensive social calendar. Our environments thrive with collaborative teamwork with people from all around the world, different nationalities, and languages.
  • A supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability. We care about the wellbeing of our employees and have a dedicated employee wellbeing program. We empower our people and offer regular progression opportunities to ensure our employees flourish.
  • Learn as you work and be part of something real that changes the face of gaming - forever.
  • Working with a global multi-lingual workforce with superb training and promotion and progression opportunities.

ALL APPLICATION MUST BE SENT IN ENGLISH

For more career opportunities, visit our career page: https://www.ptw.com/careers

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About The Company

We’re a global team of passionate, hard-working, ambitious gamers, whose goal is always to make every gamer's experience as perfect as possible. We’re dedicated to helping your players, because they’re part of our community too. We’ve been working hard for players, clients, and the games industry for over 30 years, providing industry-leading services to every part of the globe.


We believe great work gets done by teams who love what they do. This is why we approach every solution with an all-minds-on-deck strategy that leverages our global workforce's strength, creativity, and passion. 

8,500+ passionate gamers

650+ top developers and publishers as clients

5.3 million hours QA testing

7 year average client partner tenure

2,500+ LQA titles


PTW is a boutique games services company with over 40 offices in 16 countries worldwide. Our range of services include quality assurance, localization, player support, community management, art production, game development, and audio production services.


We believe that innovation comes in all sizes, which is why we take on projects of any size and love crafting a custom solution, no matter the scale. 


PTW, comprised of global subsidiaries, is a UK-based holding company formed in 2016 under the umbrella of Poletowin Holdings, Inc. which is listed on the 1st Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange as 3657. 


The PTW family of brands includes SIDE, 1518 Studios and Entalize

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