Remote Game Designer: Level & Mission Design

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental and health benefits

Group RRSP with employer matching

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking an experienced Level Designer to contribute to our Unreal Engine-based projects from Canada. You will design levels and missions, collaborate with global teams, and optimize gameplay through iterative testing and storytelling.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in professional production, strong 3D sensitivity, and fluency with Unreal Engine. This remote-friendly role offers a competitive CAD salary and opportunity to work across diverse studios.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in game design, level design and mission design.
• Collaborator able to work across internal and external teams as a team player.
• Pro-active problem solver who sees problems through to resolution.
• Excellent active communication skills and follow through.
• Experience conceptualizing, developing, and shipping levels and missions end to end.
• Strong understanding of 3D game space, pacing, flow, immersion, motivation and aesthetics.
• Solid grasp of technical concepts, logic and logic flow.
• Strong Unreal Engine development experience and environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal and external teams to meet end-user experience goals.
• Conceptualize, document and ideate levels, spaces, missions and gameplay experiences.
• Work with a variety of technologies, systems and platforms.
• Grey-boxing, pacing, layout beats, scripting, encounters and gameplay implementation.
• Test, debug, level performance, streaming and optimization.
• Environmental storytelling, world building, tone, setting and art props.
• Manage and maintain work and documentation.
• Contribute to pipeline improvements and the team.
• Be a source of knowledge and mentorship for others.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Level design

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

3D space

Maya/Max

Other engines

Tools

Maya/Max

Job description

Keywords Studios is seeking an experienced Level Designer to contribute to our Unreal Engine-based projects from Canada. You will design levels and missions, collaborate with global teams, and optimize gameplay through iterative testing and storytelling.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in professional production, strong 3D sensitivity, and fluency with Unreal Engine. This remote-friendly role offers a competitive CAD salary and opportunity to work across diverse studios.