[Hiring] Senior Level Designer @Keywords Studios

Role Description

Electric Square is looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic, and self-motivated Senior Level Designer to join our Brighton-based team working on an exciting, critically acclaimed franchise. A Senior Level Designer at Electric Square:

• Strives to achieve the level design goals for the game
• Creates clear and concise level design documentation
• Pitches level ideas and improvements in a clear and digestible way
• Plans and implements metric conforming level blockouts in-engine
• Works in close collaboration with other disciplines to ensure features, assets, and visual language are well considered and successfully integrated into the level
• Maintains and balances the flow and readability of levels
• Confident in solving problems by working with other departments
• Communicates effectively with others to align, playtest, iterate, and improve levels
• Reflects on and acts accordingly to feedback

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience as a designer working on levels
• Worked on at least one AAA FPS title
• Expertise in level design concepts and level layouts
• Experience of combat and encounter design
• Strong proficiency in design tools used in UE5 or equivalent proprietary game engine
• Experience in the level blockout phase, understanding feature requirements, and building spaces that support mechanics
• Knowledge of various support tools such as Miro, Jira, and Confluence
• Excellent bug diagnosis and debugging skills
• Confident 3D level blockout & prototyping skills
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable with asking for and providing feedback
• Able to manage time and workload effectively
• Self-motivated and takes initiative

Requirements

• Desirable: Experience of melee and ranged combat.
• Desirable: Experience with cinematic set-pieces.