Level Designer

Stellenbeschreibung:

Sumo India are looking for Level Designers of all levels to join our growing team of designers focused on building robust and cohesive levels and gameplay experiences for a variety of multi-platform titles, in collaboration with our UK based teams.

As a Level Designer at Sumo, you will be responsible for creating engaging, readable, and performant gameplay spaces that support the game’s vision, mechanics, narrative, and technical constraints. Working closely with technical designers and environment artists, you will prototype, build, iterate, and polish levels to a high standard of quality.

Job Requirements

Essential

Understanding of Level Design theory and concepts such as spatial design, player navigation, pacing, and encounter flow, appropriate to seniority.
Experience working with industry‑standard game engines and design tools.
Fluency in English with excellent communication and feedback skills, both written and verbal.

Desirable

Professional experience in Game Development, in the field of Level Design.
Experience collaborating with outsourced or external development teams in multiple time-zones.
A background spanning varying genres such as open world, action-adventure, platforming and/or racing titles.
Familiarity with performance, memory, and technical constraints in world building.

Job Responsibilities

Collaborate with Design, Art, Code, Production, and Audio teams to define and deliver level experiences in line with the project vision.
Craft the second-to-second and moment-to-moment gameplay experience through spatial design, pacing and player flow.
Build and implement world and level spaces, integrating missions, level objects, gameplay mechanics, combat and narrative elements as needed.
Engage in playtesting and feedback loops to capture player‑centric insights and inform iterative improvements.
Work closely with Technical Design to ensure that content is robust and implemented efficiently, and that it meets performance, memory and technical requirements.
Owns smaller levels or major sections from block out to polish.
Implements encounters and gameplay mechanics within levels.
Balances gameplay pacing, difficulty scaling and player guidance.