Narrative Coordinator

Insomniac Games

About The Position

Insomniac Games is hiring a Narrative Coordinator for a six-month temporary contract engagement through staffing partner Yoh Enterprise Solutions. The role supports the creation of the player experience by working closely with writers to track and create story assets. It helps deliver a project’s vision and story pillars, contributes to the creative process through development and analysis of story content, and supports a seamlessly crafted player experience. The Narrative Coordinator organizes writing infrastructure, prepares materials for voice-over sessions, maintains dialogue scope documentation, and helps coordinate writer schedules, actor casting and recording, localization deliverables, and dialogue implementation. The role also supports writing and review, game and franchise continuity, pipeline documentation and training, performance-capture preparation, and coordination across story, design, programming, project management, and other departments. This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to create and prioritize tasks correctly.
Ability to build and maintain close rapport with other departments and adapt as priorities change rapidly.
Ability to learn new and proprietary tools and procedures.
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively as a teammate, both internally and across disciplines.
Broad knowledge of and passion for game narratives and narrative systems.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with concrete variables in situations with limited standardization.
Ability to interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-based instructions.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
Familiarity with Final Draft and/or other screenwriting programs.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of game-making and production pipelines.
Experience in AAA environments.
Experience with a bug database or Quality Assurance.

Responsibilities

Create and oversee writing infrastructure by organizing directories and subdirectories for scripts and reference materials.
Prepare scripts, videos, communiqués, and other materials needed for voice-over sessions.
Share responsibility for the emergent dialogue pipeline by working with programmers and narrative designers to create and modify rule sets that trigger dialogue and tune dialogue frequency in response to feedback.
Maintain dialogue scope documentation and assist Project Management with writer scheduling.
Work with the Dialogue Supervisor on casting and actor schedules, and ensure script lines are ready for recording.
Ensure dialogue lines have appropriate metadata tags for categorization and localization.
Partner with Localization Project Management to define and track deliverables for timely handoff.
Work with writers to determine appropriate timing for dialogue implementation and review based on project milestones and requirements.
Work with writers and narrative designers to resolve in-game dialogue issues.
Provide writing support as needed, including first-draft dialogue.
Participate in script peer reviews and writers’ room sessions for brainstorming, story development, and narrative problem-solving.
Maintain game and franchise continuity, report issues, and work with appropriate parties to resolve them.
Create and maintain pipeline documentation and training for Story Department tools.
Partner with Cinematics Project Management to assist with performance-capture preparation.
Attend story and design meetings to stay current on project status.
Track design changes that require script updates, rewrites, and downstream production plans.
Perform other duties as assigned.