Contract Senior Level Designer

The role

A Senior Level Designer will craft levels for the Poppy Playtime franchise using Unreal Engine 5. This role involves greyboxing, iterating through polish, and bridging cinematic storytelling with real-time gameplay.

What you will do

• Partner with directors to define level experience, goals, and pacing.
• Collaborate on the level design pipeline.
• Prototype, build, and iterate on levels in Unreal Engine 5.
• Author and iterate on in-level cinematic sequences using Sequencer.
• Build and maintain gameplay scripting in Blueprints.
• Bridge cinematic storytelling with real-time gameplay systems.
• Work cross-discipline with System Designers, Writers, Engineers, and Environment Artists.
• Balance level aesthetics, readability, and performance.
• Lead regular playtests and design reviews.
• Mentor designers and document best practices.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional game design experience, with a strong emphasis on level design.
• Proficiency in Unreal Engine 5, with experience using Blueprints for gameplay interaction and scripting.
• Strong background in Unreal Engine’s Sequencer, with shipped examples of in-engine cinematics or scripted story moments.
• Experience bridging cinematic storytelling with real-time gameplay systems.
• A portfolio demonstrating authored or lead level work, ideally in first-person, puzzle, or horror-based games.
• Strong grasp of spatial pacing, gameplay readability, environmental storytelling, and encounter flow.
• Experience collaborating with narrative teams.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with source control (Perforce), task management tools (Jira, Confluence), and level design documentation best practices.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping narrative-focused or horror adventure games.
• Familiarity with modular environment workflows and LD/Art pipeline coordination.
• Experience working with procedural elements or systemic game spaces.
• Strong instincts for emotional pacing, building tension, and delivering impactful moments through level layout.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• paid time off
• sick time
• holidays

About the company

Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio best known for the indie horror game Poppy Playtime.