Senior Level Designer

Overview

In this role you will shape expansive, open-world experiences for AAA titles at Red Kite, collaborating across design, art, audio, and narrative to craft traversable spaces, missions, and combat encounters. You will prototype levels, implement improvements from peer reviews, and ensure gameplay remains aligned with design direction. You’ll work within a diverse project slate from major publishers, contributing to high-impact open-world systems and level storytelling. This is a role for a hands-on designer who thrives in a collaborative, studio-driven culture and enjoys pushing gameplay boundaries.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexitime – including work from home on Fridays
• 35 hours per week
• Defined Annual Bonus scheme
• Generous holiday allowance
• Learning & Development Days per year
• Employee Assistance Programme

Responsibilities

• Level Design and Whiteboxing for traversal, exploration, combat and narrative considerations
• Mission Design and Implementation: scripting and integrating missions in open-world contexts
• Combat Encounter Design: creating encounters within mission spaces
• Collaborating with art, audio and narrative teams in a large co-dev environment
• Taking ownership of parts of the game to improve gameplay and maintain functionality
• Prototyping specific level types or themes and iterating based on cross-discipline feedback
• Following design direction and implementing improvements with quality and consistency

Key requirements

• Knowledge of UE5, including blueprint scripting, World Partition, Level Instance and Data Layers
• Experience with large 3D levels or open worlds
• Ability to follow design direction and translate feedback into improvements
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience with mission scripting and integrating open-world mission flows

• collaboration
• ownership
• ability to take feedback and iterate
• Unreal Engine 5 (UE5)
• Blueprint scripting
• World Partition

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