Narrative Designer - Senior

Activision Blizzard • Santa Monica, CA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Senior Narrative Designer Elsewhere Entertainment is looking for a Senior Narrative Designer to join the development of a new IP. Feed your creativity while collaborating with our team of highly-skilled developers to build something innovative, exhilarating, and expansively entertaining ! As a member of the narrative department, you’ll create memorable characters and compelling plots as well as design and write the many types of fictional stories, dialogues, cinematics, and other texts in our game. As a member of the project, you’ll help take the studio and our game from great to even better ; with a focus on inclusivity, mutual respect (for ourselves and our players), thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration. If you’re a passionate writer and a positive, respectful collaborator who enjoys cross-department communication and creative problem-solving as a part of your workflow, we’d love to talk to you! This role is based in our California, U.S. office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a professional Narrative Designer (or some combination of applicable training and experience)
• Demonstrable and strong skills as a writer and editor
• The a bility to collaborate and thrive as part of a creative team
• No problem work ing independently ; are self-driven in taking ownership of tasks in a highly confidential environment
• C reativity in problem solving and a positive, respectful team-first attitude
• Experience p itching game narrative concepts in a clear, detailed manner, through strong written and verbal skills
• Organization methods and the capability to meet timelines
• Comfort with s elf-critiqu e and accept ing outside feedback
• A habit of r egularly p lay ing and understand ing modern video games

Nice To Haves

• Experience with writing for AAA games
• One or more shipped titles
• Experience with technical narrative design (implementation in tools, visual scripting, etc )
• Published writing (novels, short fiction, film, television, comics, etc )
• Enjoy ment of playing a variety of video game genres and titles

Responsibilities

• Develop ing a new intellectual property’s foundational lore
• Collaborat ing with the narrative team and other departments in creating the game’s locations, characters, plots , and more
• Writ ing and revis ing game dialogue and cinematic scripts
• Tak ing narrative ownership of a key narrative feature of the game
• Design ing , writ ing , and implement ing all types of storytelling and in-game text
• Craft ing detailed backstories for the game's locations, characters , and more
• Becom ing proficient in using the game's narrative tool
• Provid ing constructive feedback on others’ work
• Act ing as a liaison to other departments, conveying the consistent narrative vision of the project
• Assist ing with character casting, and prepar ing scripts for and attend ing VO and Mocap sessions
• M entor ing staff and associate narrative designers
• Ensur ing all tasks are completed according to given specifications and agreed timelines
• Perform ing any additional narrative design responsibilities as assigned by Narrative Leadership

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed