Game Level Designer

Tripledot Studios•Dallas, TX

2d•$80,000 - $105,000•Hybrid

About The Position

PeopleFun’s New Games Team is seeking a Level Designer to create, tune, and ship levels for original casual mobile games aimed at a mass-market audience. The role focuses on designing memorable early-game content and developing progression ramps that keep players engaged over time. The team uses a hypothesis-first approach to test market ideas, with player feedback guiding what comes next. As part of a small, senior-heavy incubation team, the designer’s work can reach real players within weeks and may span multiple prototypes at different stages.

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 with 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 in response to 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 Looker, BigQuery, Tableau, or similar tools.
Experience prototyping new mechanics with AI, on paper, or in whitebox 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 useful tools created by prompting AI.
A habit of playing current top-grossing casual games, explaining why they work, and identifying 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 harder 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 accordingly.
Review level metrics such as attempts, win rate, completion time, and drop-off with data partners, and retune level ramps for each release.
Regularly play and analyze leading casual games, sharing applicable lessons with the team.
Maintain shared documentation of level design intent, featured mechanics, target difficulty, and level metrics or analysis.
Partner with engineers to improve games, including procedural and AI-assisted level generation.
Work across two or more prototypes at different stages and quickly move on from work when testing indicates a pivot.