Senior Narrative Designer

📋 Description

• As a Senior Narrative Designer you will play an important role in shaping the narrative direction of our upcoming titles.

• You will be creating and implementing complex, engaging storylines and characters, ensuring they align with the project’s tone and creative vision.

• You will also have a chance to share your expertise with junior team members to help grow their skills in all aspects of narrative design.

• Support the collaboration with writers, designers, and Project Leadership to develop compelling, in-depth story content that reflects the project’s tone and creative vision.

• Implement and integrate narrative elements into the game, ensuring consistency and quality across all narrative components.

• Write combat barks, quest banter, and branching dialogue, ensuring high-quality narrative elements throughout the game.

• Mentor and guide junior narrative designers, offering feedback and sharing best practices to strengthen the team's writing and narrative integration skills.

• Help create the documentation of character bios, lore for objects, locations, items, and other in-game narrative assets.

• Collaborate closely with Lead Writer on strategic narrative decisions, offering insights and recommendations to enhance the overall game experience.

• Partake in narrative-related meetings and discussions, ensuring that narrative objectives are clear and achievable.

• Work collaboratively with external partners and stakeholders when necessary

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience writing for games or other entertainment industries.

• Proven ability to craft complex, coherent, and engaging stories and characters that resonate with diverse audiences.

• Extensive experience writing and implementing sophisticated branching narratives.

• Proficiency with game engines like Unreal.

• Deep understanding of editing standards, with extensive experience editing both creative and technical documents.

• Solid grasp of advanced game-design fundamentals and principles, with the ability to contribute to design discussions and decisions.

• Demonstrated ability to rapidly iterate on feedback, with a willingness both to receive and provide constructive critical feedback at a high level.

• Must provide a writing samples and/or be willing to complete a design test

🏖️ Benefits

• 3 weeks of flexible vacation plus a 1-week paid holiday closure per year.

• Generous sick and personal days

• Flexible working hours

• NO CRUNCH policy

• RRSP Matching Program

• Vision, dental, and extended health benefits

• Health & wellness spending account