Level Designer

About the company

• Tripledot Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world.
• 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios, reaching over 25 million daily active users.
• This role sits within the Peoplefun studio, a Dallas-based game studio.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and tune levels in Unity or custom level editors, prompting AI to improve tools.
• Shape player progression across the level ramp, introducing new mechanics and pacing difficulty.
• Invent new goals, blockers, and boosters within an existing game and prove them out with prototypes.
• Use playtests to find where players struggle or get bored, and rebuild levels in response.
• Review level-by-level metrics (attempts, win rate, completion time, drop-off) and retune the ramp.
• Play and tear down top casual games and bring lessons back to the team.
• Maintain shared docs on level design and intent.
• Partner with engineers to improve the game, including procedural and AI-assisted level generation.
• Move across two or more prototypes at different stages.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional level design experience on casual games, OR 3+ years in related disciplines on mobile games.
• Hands-on experience building levels using level editors.
• Comfort with Unity and basic game development tools (like source control).
• Working knowledge of level design fundamentals: progression, pacing, difficulty curves, onboarding (FTUE).
• Demonstrated experience revising designs based on playtest feedback.
• Clear written and verbal communication of design intent.
• Ability to work on a hybrid schedule from the Dallas-area office.

Nice to have

• Shipped levels in a puzzle, word, block, or match game.
• Experience reading level funnels and tuning from data; familiarity with Looker, BigQuery, Tableau.
• Experience prototyping new mechanics with AI.
• Fluency with spreadsheets for authoring and tuning content.
• Scripting experience (C# or Python) or procedural/AI-assisted content generation.
• Experience designing or evaluating A/B tests on level content.

Conditions

• Hybrid schedule from the Dallas-area office.
• Flexible Discretionary Time Off policy in addition to bank holidays.