Narrative Designer - Senior

Activision Blizzard • 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.

What This Job Offers

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