AGBO
Senior Level Designer
Raleigh, NC · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 41 days ago
Unreal EngineEpicMentoring
About the role
- As a Senior Level Designer, you will play a key role in bringing game worlds to life through both gameplay design and visual storytelling.
- You will design and build gameplay spaces, including test maps and sandbox environments, that support system iteration and player experience development.
- Working closely with Design, Art, and Engineering, you'll help shape player-facing gameplay spaces while ensuring alignment between mechanics, pacing, and visual direction.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop greybox levels and test maps to support gameplay exploration, pacing, and player experience.
- Integrate environment art assets into gameplay spaces, ensuring strong composition, readability, and support for visual storytelling.
- Collaborate closely with combat, systems, and engineering teams to help implement gameplay scenarios while maintaining performance targets and player flow.
- Partner cross-functionally to support the implementation of shared environment assets and contribute to consistent world-building across environments.
- Contribute to worldbuilding, space planning, and the development of modular design approaches.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Strong worldbuilding instincts with a solid understanding of gameplay space design, player flow, and environmental storytelling.
- Comfortable collaborating across disciplines-design, art, and engineering-and contributing effectively within a team environment.
- We're building the future of storytelling-and we're looking for bold, creative minds to help shape it.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Unreal Engine 5, with hands-on experience in both greybox design and art implementation workflows.
Skills
- A strong eye for layout, lighting, and visual clarity in 3D environments.
- Experience working on action, narrative, or exploration-driven titles.
- Familiarity with modular asset workflows and real-time optimization techniques.
- Bonus: Previous experience working on early-phase projects or in fast-paced development environments.
- Bonus: Interest in film, cross-medium storytelling, worldbuilding, or experimental gameplay.
Benefits
- We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education and experience.
- Qualifications & Skills: 5-8 years of experience in level design and/or environment art roles, preferably with hybrid experience; bonus if you've supported or contributed to a live service game.
Company info
- Founded in 2017 by Anthony and Joe Russo, AGBO is an artist-led independent studio shaping the future of film and television.
- The Russo Brothers and AGBO have generated more than $7 billion at the global box office, including Avengers: Endgame.
- The studio's projects include Academy Award-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once, Netflix hits The Gray Man and Extraction, and Prime Video's visceral thriller The Bluff and the global Citadel franchise.
- Citadel Season 2 premieres in May 2026.
- AGBO is currently in production with Netflix on Tygo and Mercenary, both part of the Extraction universe, as well as with Lionsgate on John Rambo, a prequel to the iconic franchise.
- The studio is in post-production on The Whisper Man, starring Robert De Niro, and Avengers: Doomsday, which will be released December 18, 2026.
- AGBO will begin shooting Avengers: Secret Wars later this year.
- Both upcoming Avengers films are directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and co-produced by AGBO and Marvel Studios.
- In 2023, AGBO welcomed Donald Mustard-former Chief Creative Officer at Epic Games and co-creator of Fortnite -as a partner.
- Mustard brings a bold creative vision to AGBO: to expand what storytelling can be through immersive, interconnected worlds that span across media.
- If you're ready to help define what comes next, we'd love to meet you.
- About the Position: As a Senior Level Designer, you will play a key role in bringing game worlds to life through both gameplay design and visual storytelling.
- The Russo Brothers and AGBO have generated more than $7 billion at the global box office, including
This listing is sourced directly from AGBO's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.