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Editor

A Game Editor works with the Head of Writing to hone the writing for Wooga’s story-driven games. A good editor isn’t just a stickler for grammar, but has a strong sense for tone, pacing, character voice, consistency, and storytelling. They are able to work closely with writing teams to understand the narrative goals of a project and with the Head of Writing to understand and implement company-wide narrative best practices. Some of your responsibilities include:

• Reviews and makes editing recommendations to writers for character voice, consistency, clarity, context, and brevity
• Strengthens the structure, characters, and pacing of stories in development
• Edits in-game text for accurate grammar, spelling and style
• Edits marketing material, app store text, & web text, when needed
• Maintains consistent style for all player-facing text using general reference materials and internal style guides
• Checks game continuity and facts

About you

• Minimum of two years related experience or professional editing certification
• Excellent grammar, spelling, editing, and proofreading skills (U.S. English)
• Acute attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to communicate editorial changes constructively and professionally
• Undergraduate degree in English or equivalent experience

Our Promise

• Shape the future! Challenge the status quo and team up with a diverse group of experts working on crafting the world’s best games!
• Excite millions of players around the world every day through our games
• Work just minutes from the center of Europe’s most vibrant city, have a nap in one of our sleeping pods or brush up your console games skills - enjoy our unique office space
• Extensive relocation support to make your and your loved ones’ move to Berlin as smooth as possible
• Make use of a significant education budget and extra days off for self-development. Join our meetups, talks, brown bag lunches, world cafe’s, internal trainings, workshops and many others
• Did you know that German Is the third most commonly taught language worldwide? Learn it too! We offer German language classes for you and your significant other

At Wooga we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us, regardless to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) and game preferences.