Principal Level Designer - Unannounced Project | Concepteur·rice de niveaux principal·e - Projet non-annoncé

Job description

Are you ready to dive into the world of cutting-edge video game development? Headquartered in Montreal, Behaviour Interactive is at the forefront of the gaming industry, crafting unforgettable experiences across PC, console, and mobile platforms. We’re a dynamic, independent studio of over 1200 passionate employees, with studios in Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Rotterdam (Behaviour Rotterdam) and in the UK (Behaviour UK–North & South). Our day to day revolves around two core business focuses: Services and Original Games. Our Services team collaborates with gaming and entertainment giants like Disney, Sony, Activision, and Nintendo, delivering exceptional work-for-hire development and pioneering immersive location-based entertainment (LBE). Meanwhile, our Original Games unit pushes our creative limits, with our signature IPs, including the iconic *Dead by Daylight*. Join us and be a part of the future of interactive entertainment! *At Behaviour Interactive, we believe in giving everyone a fair shot. We embrace a diverse and creative environment where everyone is celebrated. We value folks of all ages, sex, ethnicity, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, civil status, disability, or any other protected characteristics as per applicable law.* As a Senior Level Designer, you are the architect of player experience: you build the spaces where every fight, decision, and story moment happens. You think in terms of flow, sightlines, pacing, and risk/reward. You know that a great map is a system as much as it is a place, one that holds up under the weight of dozens of playtests and still surprises players on their hundredth match. You're equally comfortable sketching a rough flow diagram and getting hands-on in engine to block out and test your ideas yourself. At this stage, you won't just execute a brief, you will help define what "good" looks like for the team, mentor through example and partner closely with art, tech, and design leadership to make sure the spaces you build serve both gameplay and vision. ### In this role you will : - Take ownership of a map for the full length of the prototype, pushing it from blockout to a polished, art-integrated playable level. - Design and iterate on multiplayer maps / arenas / battlefields for an asymmetrical FPS, balancing tight, readable spaces with meaningful tactical options and strong use of verticality. - Define the rules of navigation for the game and translate them into concrete gameplay implications. - Establish and maintain the level design metrics for the game (scale, pacing, cover spacing, engagement distances, traversal timing) to support multiple modes of traversal. - Work hand-in-hand with the Art Director, tech, and environment artists rapidly prototyping ideas in Blueprints to validate gameplay before committing to production. - Help establish and protect the core gameplay loop during the prototype phase, prioritizing what's essential over full-game scope. ### What we are looking for : - Minimum of 7 years of level design experience. - Proven experience designing multiplayer maps, arenas, or battlefields: spaces with high replay value, multiple viable strategies, and strong, deliberate verticality. - Strong, hands-on experience with Unreal Engine and solid experience with Blueprints, comfortable scripting your own prototypes alongside programmers. - Experience shipping or prototyping multiplayer games, with a demonstrated ability to prototype quickly and test gameplay ideas fast. - Solid fundamentals in space, pacing, flow, and player guidance, with the ability to project unfinished blockouts into a final art vision alongside the art team. - Comfortable designing for sci-fi/futuristic settings and the conventions of FPS / asymmetrical shooters, with strong collaboration skills across distributed teams. ### Dans ce rôle tu devras : - Prendre en charge une carte pendant toute la durée du prototype, en la faisant évoluer d’un blocage initial (*blockout*) jusqu’à un niveau jouable finalisé, intégré à la direction artistique; - Concevoir et itérer sur des cartes multijoueurs, arènes et champs de bataille pour un FPS asymétrique, en équilibrant des espaces lisibles et bien structurés avec des options tactiques significatives et une utilisation marquée de la verticalité; - Définir les règles de navigation du jeu et les traduire en implications concrètes pour le gameplay; - Établir et maintenir métriques de level design du jeu (échelle, rythme, espacement des couvertures, distances d’engagement, temps de déplacement/traversée) afin de soutenir plusieurs modes de déplacement et de traversée; - Collaborer étroitement avec le Directeur artistique, les équipes techniques et les artistes d’environnement, en créant rapidement des prototypes dans Unreal Blueprints afin de valider les concepts de gameplay avant leur passage en production; - Contribuer à définir et à préserver la boucle de gameplay principale pendant la phase de prototypage, en privilégiant les éléments essentiels plutôt que l’ensemble du périmètre du jeu.