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Associate Narrative Designer - Sledgehammer Games

Activision
Foster City California 94404 United States of America
3 years ago
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Job Title:

Associate Narrative Designer - Sledgehammer Games

Requisition ID:

R004697

Job Description:

Position: Associate Narrative Designer

Job Summary:

Sledgehammer Games, an award-winning Activision studio behind such titles as Call of Duty: WW2, is looking to expand and diversify its Narrative Department. We’re seek talented developers to help us grow the team and explore new ways of delivering unique and exciting stories within our titles. You’ll have a unique opportunity to define what narrative means and how we create our worlds at the studio. As part of this team, your day-to-day responsibilities will include dialogue writing, story development, narrative implementation, and collaborating with other departments on narrative elements.

The position will strike a balance between creative writing and technical expertise. This means writing scripted mission dialogue, pacing out gameplay to help tell the story, and contributing to the overall narrative vision. This will require working with all disciplines in the production pipeline integrate story with gameplay. You may also be responsible for attending recording sessions to ensure that the narrative vision is being properly communicated to and captured by the actors.

We at Sledgehammer believe that our stories are made richer and more interesting when they’re created by people from all walks of life. We’d like to encourage everyone to apply for this exciting opportunity if you feel like your individual voice can enrich the team.

COVID-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model, and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.

Responsibilities:

Help develop compelling, engaging, and immersive narrative game experiences.

Help maintain the narrative vision of the project.

Explore new ways to bring characters to life with a practical approach that blends into, or seamlessly with gameplay.

Write and iterate on compelling dialogue for characters and missions.

Collaborate with designers to create mission structure that identifies narrative beats and plot lines to support the story.

Work with Tools teams to improve writing workflows and processes.

Have a passion for interactive storytelling.

Maintain narrative documentation to constantly reflect the latest iterations in the vision.

Minimum Requirements:

Some involvement in and contributions to video games in a writing or design role

Some experience in main writing skill areas, such as brainstorming, story development, character creation, world-building, and dialogue drafting

Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Able to execute on assigned writing tasks with some coaching and supervision.

Excellent organizational skills and able to work well under deadlines

Work and thrive in a collaborative team environment

Knowledge of industry trends and successful intellectual properties

Plays and has knowledge of modern video games

Desirable Skills:

Experience writing branching and non-linear dialogue for games

Scripting experience with text or visual scripting languages

Successfully published written work (novels, short fiction, film, television, comics)

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

To Apply:

Along with your resume’, please prepare and submit samples of your strongest writing – Ideally a minimum of two completed scenes, or work of any format (such as game scripts, tele- or screenplays, short stories, comics or graphic novels) that demonstrate your understanding of and dedication to narrative craft. You will need to put your work online, and submit the URL to us on your resume’ so that we can easily find it and read your samples.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty ®, World of Warcraft® , Overwatch ®, Diablo ®, Candy Crush ™ and Bubble Witch ™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Sledgehammer Games is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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