Senior Level Designer

About the role

You will own the end-to-end level design lifecycle for one of Voodoo's top live mobile games, ensuring that every stage feels fresh, engaging, and aligned with long-term retention goals. You will act as both a hands-on creator and a strategic leader, defining how players progress through increasingly clever and challenging scenarios while respecting business expectations. You will partner with artists, engineers, and data analysts to translate abstract concepts into concrete, playable spaces that are polished, scalable, and fun. Your work will directly influence millions of players who encounter the unique personality of Hole.io through your carefully tuned layouts and pacing. You will also own the craft of level design by establishing clear guidelines, standards, and documentation that keep the team aligned. Over time, you will shape the direction of the Levels Pod by mentoring junior designers and elevating the overall quality of output. Finally, you will explore how emerging tools like AI can be integrated responsibly to accelerate iteration without sacrificing the human touch that makes the gameplay compelling.

Key facts

What you'll do

Define and maintain a robust level progression and difficulty curve for Hole.io that balances fun, fairness, and long-term engagement using both qualitative feedback and quantitative data.

Use Unity and internal proprietary tools to craft innovative, polished 3D levels that highlight the game's distinct art style and emergent gameplay while remaining performant on target devices.

Partner with the Level Design pod to design, iterate, and refine gameplay experiences, helping to plan and prioritize tasks that keep production pipelines smooth.

Establish clear, actionable level design guidelines tailored to the game's mechanics and audience, ensuring consistency across all live and experimental content.

Define and iterate on the specifications of Level Design tools to improve workflow efficiency, quality, and scalability for the entire team.

Maintain comprehensive documentation of level layouts, progression paths, and ongoing A B tests to support decision making and future troubleshooting.

Proactively contribute ideas for new mechanics, level assets, and environmental themes that preserve cohesion while expanding the variety of immersive spaces and interactive challenges.

Collaborate closely with artists, animators, and engineers to ensure that level designs are technically feasible, artistically expressive, and aligned with production constraints.

Test and balance levels thoroughly, using player behavior data and qualitative feedback to adjust pacing, difficulty, and reward structures to meet high quality standards.

Ensure every design decision respects the technical limitations and opportunities presented by the Unity engine and the live service architecture.

Help introduce and integrate an AI driven pipeline that enables the team to scale level production and streamline content generation workflows responsibly.

Act as an ambassador for data informed design by setting up experiments, interpreting results, and proposing adjustments that improve key engagement and retention metrics.

Support the studio in creating memorable seasonal moments and events that refresh the experience for existing players and attract new users.

Champion best practices in version control, naming conventions, and asset management to keep the level pipeline robust and understandable.

Requirements

Bring at least 4 years of proven experience in level design for 3D games, with a portfolio that clearly demonstrates your ability to create engaging, well paced levels.

Possess intermediate or higher proficiency in Unity, including familiarity with editor workflows, scripting basics, and performance optimization.

Show a strong grasp of game design fundamentals, especially within the casual live service genre, and an understanding of what drives retention and monetization.

Have experience or a genuine interest in leading and mentoring a team of level designers, helping them grow through clear feedback and structured challenges.

Demonstrate a methodical, data driven approach to tuning and balancing, using analytics to validate design choices and iterate quickly.

Exhibit excellent problem solving skills and a creative mindset when confronted with design constraints, technical limitations, or player expectations.

Communicate clearly and effectively, both in writing and verbally, to align cross functional teams and articulate design intent.

Be comfortable working in a fast paced, agile environment where priorities can shift based on live service needs and player behavior.

Nice to have

Experience designing open world, outdoor 3D environments that feel expansive yet coherent.

Proven success leading and mentoring a small team of level designers in a live service context.

A degree in game design, computer science, or a related field that has given you a solid foundation in design theory and production practices.

Practical notes

This role is based in Paris and is a full time position.

Candidates must be authorized to work in France without sponsorship, as the company cannot at present sponsor visas.

The start date will be aligned with team availability and project milestones.