Level Designer - Picture Blast Solitaire

About the role

Joyteractive, a mobile game developer and publisher of puzzle games, is looking for an experienced Level Designer for its Picture Blast Solitaire team. The game is a casual puzzle for mobile (iOS and Android), and the role owns the level design direction and delivers levels to production.

Key responsibilities

• Own the level design direction and deliver levels weekly to production, including art review, feedback to artists, uploading levels to the build and controlling deadlines and quality
• Tune the difficulty curve across levels and within a single level
• Work with the level editor to set up the content delivery queue based on defined constraints
• Analyse level metrics (churn, playtime), replace and improve underperforming levels
• Generate and test level design hypotheses to improve playtime, retention and monetisation (e.g. interstitial versus rewarded ad balance)
• Assemble level sets for A/B tests and set them up with developers and the game designer
• Automate routine processes in the content pipeline

Required profile

• 3+ years of level design experience in puzzle, solitaire, match-3 or merge games
• Strong experience in difficulty curve tuning
• Experience with A/B testing of levels and level sets
• Ownership of results and proactivity
• Nice to have: visual taste or an art background, experience with procedurally generated levels

Required skills

• Analytics: behavioural and monetisation metrics, including ad metrics (interstitial, rewarded, eCPM)
• Level editors or internal tools

What we offer

• Remote work
• 18 business days of paid day-offs and 10 paid personal days per year, plus one extra each year
• Flexible public holidays policy and 100% sick leave compensation
• Payment for wear and tear on equipment used on a personal computer