Game Level Designer

Tripledot Studios•Dallas, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

PeopleFun’s New Games Team is seeking a Level Designer to create original casual mobile games for a mass-market audience. The role focuses on building, tuning, and shipping levels that encourage players to keep coming back. You will design memorable early-game experiences and develop level ramps spanning hundreds of levels, introducing mechanics and pacing difficulty over time. The team works hypothesis-first, building polished games to test market ideas and using player feedback to guide development. As part of a small, senior-heavy incubation team, your levels may reach real players within weeks. You will work across multiple prototypes at different stages and be prepared to pivot when test results call for it. The position is based on a hybrid schedule from the Dallas-area office. The anticipated base salary range is $80,000–$105,000, with actual compensation determined by qualifications and other factors.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Experience shipping levels in a puzzle, word, block, or match game, with shareable samples such as level breakdowns, ramp sheets, or a portfolio.
Experience reading level funnels and tuning from data; familiarity with tools such as Looker, BigQuery, or Tableau.
Experience prototyping new mechanics with AI, on paper, or in whitebox to test them before engineering investment.
Fluency with spreadsheets for authoring and tuning content, including formulas, ramp tables, and parameter sheets.
Experience taking a game from prototype through soft launch or working on an incubation team.
Scripting experience in C# or Python, or experience with procedural or AI-assisted content generation.
Experience designing or evaluating A/B tests on level content.
Recent examples of prototypes or tools built by prompting AI.
A habit of playing current top-grossing casual games, explaining why they work, and spotting salient innovations.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and tune levels in Unity or custom level editors, and use AI prompting to improve those tools.
Shape player progression across level ramps by introducing mechanics and pacing difficulty, including balancing hard levels with easier breather levels.
Invent goals, blockers, and boosters for existing games and validate them with sample puzzle layouts or prototypes.
Use playtests to identify where players struggle or lose interest, then revise levels in response.
Review level metrics such as attempts, win rate, completion time, and drop-off with data partners, and retune the level ramp for each release.
Regularly play and analyze leading casual games and share relevant takeaways with the team.
Maintain shared documentation of level design intent, featured mechanics, target difficulty, and level metrics or analysis.
Partner with engineers to improve the game, including procedural and AI-assisted level generation.
Work across two or more prototypes at different stages and quickly let go of work when testing indicates a pivot.