Level Designer (Word Games)
Location: Belarus
Project: Philwords
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a Level Designer to create, improve, and analyze levels for a word-based casual game. We value individuals with strong analytical thinking, an understanding of puzzle complexity, and an interest in word mechanics.
Responsibilities
- Creating new and improving existing levels in various languages based on data and product goals.
- Utilizing AI tools to accelerate content creation, verification, and analysis.
- Working with dictionaries: populating, cleaning, categorizing.
- Segmenting levels by various parameters.
- Analyzing level performance based on metrics and identifying problem areas.
- Reworking underperforming levels and verifying the effectiveness of changes.
- Preparing hypotheses for A/B tests.
- Analyzing competitor levels, mechanics, and approaches.
- Participating in the refinement of internal level design tools.
Requirements
- Level Designer experience of 2+ years, preferably in casual puzzle games.
- Experience in creating levels for puzzles and core mechanics.
- Experience in building and adjusting difficulty curves.
- Ability to analyze level metrics: completion rate, difficulty, engagement.
- Experience in adapting level difficulty for different player segments.
- Analytical mindset and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Ability to formulate hypotheses for level improvement and test them through data.
- Experience with AI tools for generation, analysis, automation, or pipeline acceleration.
- Attention to detail, systematic approach, and ability to work with large volumes of content.
Bonus Points
- Experience in creating or improving level design tools.
- Experience with word games and understanding of word-based levels.
- Understanding of dictionary management principles.
- Personal gaming experience and familiarity with word puzzles.
- Experience in preparing A/B tests: formulating hypotheses, setting up tests, analyzing and interpreting results.
Working at OMG is about:
- Flexible work arrangements. You can choose remote work or an office in Gomel or Minsk (with paid lunches, board games, and a massage chair).
- All necessary equipment and services for work.
- Investment in education. We support the professional development of our employees and allocate funds for their training.
- Salary pegged to the currency exchange rate.
- Health care. We provide VHI with dental coverage and full sick pay (100%).
- Compensation for sports and fitness.
- 25 vacation days + 5 sick days per year.
- Bonus program, events, and corporate parties, gifts for occasions, and other perks.
