Lead Level Designer

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : What is your role?

As a Lead Level Designer at Eleventh Hour Games, you will be responsible for shaping the environments, encounters, and player experiences that bring Last Epoch to life.

You will guide a team of designers in creating compelling levels that balance gameplay flow, narrative integration, and visual storytelling.This role requires both creative vision and production discipline. Youll partner closely with design, art, and engineering teams to ensure levels are fun, functional, and performant. As a leader, youll mentor designers, refine workflows, and ensure the level design team is aligned with project goals and deadlines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional level design experience in the game industry, with at least 2+ years in a lead or senior design role
• Track record of shipping at least one title in a senior or leadership capacity
• Understanding of encounter design, pacing, and player progression
• Experience working with level design tools in engines such as Unity or Unreal
• Collaborative mindset with experience guiding cross-disciplinary teams (art, design, and engineering)
• Communication and documentation skills in a remote-first environment
• Problem-solving and organizational skills

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Responsibilities

Why Eleventh Hour Games?

EHG is a fast growing studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs.We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth!Our missionis to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge extraordinary games. Extraordinary games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators.With our breakout titleLast Epoch,we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

EHG is an equal opportunity employer. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contactHR@eleventhhour.games.Please note, general employment questions cannot be accepted or processed this way.