Game Level Designer – Live Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Design and implement innovative game systems, features, mechanics, levels, and content for existing hybrid-casual games.

• Create, maintain, and enhance levels, missions, challenges, and gameplay experiences for active players.

• Define and optimize level progression, sequencing, pacing, difficulty curves, and player journeys.

• Analyze the performance of levels, including completion rates, fail rates, retries, churn points, and progression behaviors.

• Design and enhance LiveOps events, challenges, competitions, missions, rewards, and experiences aimed at driving engagement.

• Balance levels by utilizing player behavior, data, playtests, and community feedback.

• Design and optimize progression systems, rewards, game economy, monetization, and free-to-play systems.

• Identify opportunities for new mechanics, level elements, obstacles, boosters, and gameplay variations.

• Analyze game KPIs, player behaviors, funnels, A/B testing, and economic data.

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Data Analysts to define hypotheses, prioritize opportunities, assess performance, and enhance KPIs.

• Work closely with developers, artists, and other disciplines to deliver features, levels, and LiveOps content.

• Create and maintain design documentation, level layouts, progression plans, flows, balancing sheets, and economic models.

• Research competitors, market trends, LiveOps strategies, and emerging design techniques.

• Utilize AI tools for level creation, ideation, balancing, economic modeling, testing, research, and data analysis.

• Contribute creative ideas and design leadership within an agile, multidisciplinary team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in game and level design within a mobile free-to-play studio or gaming company.

• Ideally experienced in casual, hybrid-casual, or puzzle games.

• Strong practical experience in level design, including level creation, balancing, pacing, difficulty tuning, and progression.

• Experience in designing or enhancing game systems, mechanics, features, and content for live games.

• Deep understanding of player motivation, progression, difficulty curves, balancing, pacing, and reward structures.

• Strong free-to-play mindset and understanding of LiveOps, game economy, monetization, and player engagement.

• Experience using KPIs, analytics, spreadsheets, playtests, and player data for design and balancing decisions.

• Ability to translate player journey challenges, data, and behaviors into tangible design improvements.

• Proficient with level editors, game engines, spreadsheets, or content creation and balancing tools.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills complemented by creativity and player empathy.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Broad knowledge of casual and hybrid-casual mobile games and current market trends.

• Curiosity and a willingness to experiment with AI tools and emerging technologies.

• Advantage: 3+ years of specific experience working on hybrid-casual, casual, or puzzle games.

• Advantage: Experience designing and maintaining a significant volume of levels for a successful live mobile game.

• Advantage: Experience optimizing difficulty curves and level progression using player data.

• Advantage: Experience designing LiveOps events and event content.

• Advantage: Significant experience with free-to-play economy and monetization design.

• Advantage: Experience working on games with large, established player communities.

• Advantage: Proficiency in Unity 3D or custom level editors.

• Advantage: Experience utilizing AI tools for level generation, balancing, testing, game design, or data analysis.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual team trip.

• Global holiday celebrations and gifts.

• Birthday gifts.

• Job anniversary gifts.

• Flexibility for remote work.

• Support from a knowledgeable People team for integration and career progression.

• AI Lead team dedicated to teaching, training, and assisting employees in smart AI utilization.