Lead Level Designer
Lingokids
Design
Spain · Studzionka, Poland · Remote
Lead Level Designer
We’re looking for passionate professionals to join our team, make a real impact, and contribute to something truly meaningful. Let’s build the future of education together! 🚀
Lingokids is on a mission to help families raise amazing kids through Playlearning™. Ready to join us on this exciting journey? 🚀
Lingokids is a global leader in educational technology, helping over 185 million families worldwide raise amazing kids through Playlearning™,our unique approach that blends education with play. Our mission is to empower children with modern learning experiences, combining educational subjects with essential life skills to help them grow into confident, conscious, and resilient lifelong learners.
Beyond our award-winning app, we’ve built a multi-platform educational universe, including our “Baby Bot” and “Baby Bot’s Backyard Tales” shows, Podcasts, and Music Publishing. Our content, developed in collaboration with top education experts and Oxford Press University, ensures an engaging, high-quality learning experience in a safe, ad-free environment. This dedication to excellence has earned Lingokids multiple industry awards across app, podcast, and video categories, including Best Original Learning App by Kidscreen Awards, National Parenting Product Awards by NAPPA Awards, and Best Parenting Product by Good Housekeeping, among many others!
As a Lead Level Designer you will build and run Level Design as an independent vertical team at Lingokids Studios.
Level Design at Lingokids is not what you might expect from a traditional games company. Our level designers sit at the intersection of game design, technical implementation, and production. They reskin games for major IP partners (Disney and beyond), support localization at scale, contribute to template development, and increasingly drive initiatives that shape how we produce content across the entire studio.
You'd report directly to the Studios Director and manage a team of ~12 people.
If you want to be part of a team that's redefining the future of education, we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll do
Team Leadership & Development
Develop Level Design into a properly structured vertical team with clear roles, growth paths, and accountability.
Manage and develop seniors, juniors, and interns — including a mix of remote and in-office team members (Madrid office).
Create a culture where level designers proactively contribute to game quality.
Cross-Department Alignment
Alongside engineering, QA, and production, act as the connective tissue between Scale and Innovation.
Ensure learnings from reskin production feed back into template design decisions early — representing the LD perspective in the conceptual phase of template development.
Coordinate with Game Developers and Game Designers to position LD as a strategic partner, not a downstream service team.
Instance Production
Oversee the production of game instances across IP partners, meeting quality bars set by partners like Disney.
Support Production in instance planning and conceptualization — level designers have the deepest knowledge of what each template can and can't do.
Analyze production costs and performance data per template to identify what scales best for specific audiences and IPs, and turn those insights into clear, actionable decisions for the team.
Make data-backed suggestions for template improvements that increase gameplay depth and scalability.
Localization
Own LD's role in localization. Work with the Sr. Level Designer (Localization) to build scalable processes and leverage AI tooling to reduce manual effort.
Ensure localization work doesn't create a talent vacuum in other areas — staff and plan accordingly.
Template Development Involvement
Push for structured LD involvement in the final phases of template development (asset integration, parametrization, visual polish).
Define where LD adds value vs. where it overlaps with Game Development, and draw clear lines.
Own post-launch template support: bug fixing, parameter tuning, and IP-specific adaptations — freeing programmer capacity for higher-leverage work.
Identify and champion new ways LD can add value — whether that's tooling, process improvements, or expanding the team's design influence.
What you’ll bring
10+ years in level design or a closely related discipline (technical game design, content production) in a live, content-heavy game environment.
5+ years leading a team — actual people management, not just project coordination.
Strategic thinker who can zoom out from day-to-day tasks to see where the team should be in 6–12 months, then build the roadmap to get there.
Cross-functional operator: comfortable working with game designers, developers, artists, animators, and producers.
Process builder: you've taken an unstructured or under-structured team and given it clarity without drowning it in bureaucracy.
Experience managing remote and hybrid teams.
Strong pluses
Experience with IP-licensed content production (Disney, Nintendo, or similar quality-bar partners).
Experience with localization pipelines for games.
Familiarity with mobile/casual game production at scale (hundreds of content pieces, not a single-title AAA pipeline).
Hands-on experience with Unity or similar game engines in a level design context.
Experience with AI-assisted tools for content production workflows.
English is a must: We’re a multicultural team providing a service in English, so while certifications aren’t necessary, fluency is essential. As a fully remote company, clear and effective spoken and written communication, especially in asynchronous and long-form formats, is key to collaborating successfully.
Life at Lingokids
📚 Career Growth: Your growth drives our success! We invest in your development up to €2,000 per year for books and training; so you can keep learning and growing with us.
🏡 Remote-Friendly: Work from where you’re most productive, home or our offices in Madrid, anywhere within a 2-hour difference from Spain (GMT+1). The choice is yours!
📈 Stock Options: Your contribution matters! You'll receive stock options, giving you the opportunity to own part of the company and share in its success.
🖥 Home Office Setup: Create your ideal workspace with a €400 allowance for setup and €35/month for remote work expenses, because comfort fuels creativity!
🍲 Meal Allowances: Get €60/month on your Cobee card to enjoy meals at restaurants or food delivery, good food makes everything better!
💳 Flexible Compensation: Manage your meal, transport and childcare expenses easily with Cobee, integrating them directly into your payroll.
🩺 Health Insurance: Access private health coverage at exclusive rates through Adeslas, seamlessly deducted from your payroll, quality care made simple.
💬 Language Lessons: Learning never stops! Enjoy free language classes in Spanish and English, to sharpen your skills and stay connected in a global team.
🌍 Visa Sponsorship: If you need a visa to work in the EU, we’ll handle the process and cover the costs to make your transition seamless.
🎉 Company events: Yes! We’re a fully remote team spread across different countries, but we love getting together from time to time in different corners of Spain, for team gatherings and recharging at our amazing off-sites!
Passion matters more than perfection
Didn’t check every box for this role? No worries! We’re looking for passionate, driven individuals who believe in our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d still love to hear from you!
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At Lingokids, diversity isn’t just a checkbox—it’s at the heart of everything we do. Just like we teach kids to embrace differences, we celebrate them in our team, knowing that the best ideas come from unique perspectives. We’re all about creating a space where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered to be their authentic selves. No matter your background, identity, or story, if you’re passionate about making a difference in education, we want you here.
- Team
- Lingokids Studios
- Locations
- Remote (international, outside Spain), Remote (Spain-based)
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
Our culture
Playworking:
We work hard and playwork™ even harder! Learning through play and having fun is also the mantra of Lingokids behind the scenes.
Creative leadership:
Lingokids members work in interdisciplinary teams with a long-term goal designed to feel like a mini-startup where everyone must perform creative leadership. All members are responsible for proposing solutions to problems, and nobody is expected to come up with all the ideas while the rest are just developing them.
We know nothing:
At Lingokids we are humble and one of our mottos is “I know nothing”. But knowing is our passion so we are always finding creative ways to increase our wisdom. That continuous race for perfecting our knowledge brought us where we are. That and that we are fast getting that knowledge.
About Lingokids
The Lingokids app was created because there were no other apps on the market for kids that were fun, engaging and safe.
From day one, we designed the Lingokids app to be engaging, educational, and completely safe for kids. It’s not just about keeping kids entertained—it’s about making sure they’re learning and developing key skills in a way parents can feel good about.
Our unique PlaylearningTM approach puts children in the center of the Lingokids universe, which provides 3,000+ original, engaging, interactive learning activities in a variety of mediums and surrounds them with choice and exploratory child-led learning paths.
With a commitment to traditional, educational objectives for preschool through second grade, Lingokids knows today’s child needs engineering & empathy, reading & resilience, math fluency & mindfulness.
Join the adventure! 🚀