Lead Level Designer - Sci-Fi Shooter

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we've been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We are on the lookout for a Lead Level Designer to join a passionate and expanding Design team developing a new and exciting sci-fi IP with an attitude and philosophy based on by high levels of trust, autonomy, and collaboration.

As a Lead Level Designer, you will lead a team of designers on a brand-new project from pre-production to shipping, overseeing the development of the level design. You'll collaborate with the Head of Design, Designers, Producers, and Programmers to balance creative vision with production realities.

Growth is a big part of the team's philosophy, and we try to encourage people to learn new skills and work towards their career goals. You will help facilitate and encourage learning within the team and be a key point of contact should anyone feel they need assistance should they be struggling.

This exciting opportunity can be based out of either of our studios in Oxford or Warwick, offering flexibility, collaboration, and the chance to work with a world-class team! We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

We believe in the power of face-to-face collaboration and encourage working from our studios. However, we understand that flexibility matters, so we're open to discussing hybrid options based on individual needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Level Designers with best practice people management techniques, proactively manage your team's performance and professional development through performance review cycles giving constructive, actionable, relevant feedback.
• Collaborate with Production, the Art Director and Design Director to balance creative vision with production realities.
• Verify the quality of level design in the game, and make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction.
• Conduct gameplay evaluations with the Design Director, Lead Game Designer and Producer with the team providing feedback and suggestions to help fine-tune and improve the game.
• Be an active mentor and role model for the Design team. Work to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm.

• Expert knowledge of the video game development process, including working in a timely / time-bound manner, and prototyping/iterating appropriately within that restriction.

• Expert knowledge of production pipelines.
• Expert knowledge of creating level design documents and prototype specifications.
• Proactively ensure the level design serves the audience of the game, is appropriate to the state of the market and effectively uses the resources available.
• Able to focus on individuals and teams to achieve a specific outcome to drive performance.
• Able to apply an understanding of the games industry to improve the effectiveness of teams and projects.
• Able to develop resolutions to unusually challenging problems and mentor individuals and teams to solve problems creatively.

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years - one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more... including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

About Us

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn't sound quite like you, we're recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we're always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers