Narrative Designer - Senior

Activision•Santa Monica, CA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

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 ability to collaborate and thrive as part of a creative team
No problem working independently; are self-driven in taking ownership of tasks in a highly confidential environment
Creativity in problem solving and a positive, respectful team-first attitude
Experience pitching game narrative concepts in a clear, detailed manner, through strong written and verbal skills
Organization methods and the capability to meet timelines
Comfort with self-critique and accepting outside feedback
A habit of regularly playing and understanding 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)
Enjoyment of playing a variety of video game genres and titles

Responsibilities

Developing a new intellectual property’s foundational lore
Collaborating with the narrative team and other departments in creating the game’s locations, characters, plots, and more
Writing and revising game dialogue and cinematic scripts
Taking narrative ownership of a key narrative feature of the game
Designing, writing, and implementing all types of storytelling and in-game text
Crafting detailed backstories for the game's locations, characters, and more
Becoming proficient in using the game's narrative tool
Providing constructive feedback on others’ work
Acting as a liaison to other departments, conveying the consistent narrative vision of the project
Assisting with character casting, and preparing scripts for and attending VO and Mocap sessions
Mentoring staff and associate narrative designers
Ensuring all tasks are completed according to given specifications and agreed timelines
Performing 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.

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