Lead Narrative Designer - World of Warcraft

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Story is at the heart of everything we do in World of Warcraft, and as Lead Narrative Designer you will recruit, lead, and mentor a dedicated team of narrative designers. You will collaborate with peers across multiple disciplines to oversee narrative design from initial story pitches to final implementation. We value diverse voices and varied backgrounds, and we're looking for a leader to champion Blizzard's core values and help us build fun, compelling, and inclusive story experiences for World of Warcraft.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

What you will do…

• Guide the narrative team to express the story of WoW through excellent dialogue, prose, voiceover, and characterization.
• Manage, mentor, and evaluate team members through content creation and iteration while identifying implementation best practices.
• Work with our recruiting partners to continue growing the narrative design team.
• Plan the narrative team schedule and work with production and team leadership to ensure proper scope, quality, efficiency, and workflow.
• Work with sound producers to plan voiceover budgets.
• Collaborate with casting directors to cast major voice roles.
• Oversee consistency and continuity of game storylines and franchise characters.
• Create story documentation and maintain writing style guides and other supporting materials.
• Review cinematic requests, assign and write scripts, and offer feedback and approval.
• Champion work/life balance for the narrative design team.
• Promote, contribute to, and participate in our culture of inclusion and diversity.

To succeed you must have…

• A desire to improve the designs and further the careers of those around you through feedback and coaching.
• Excellent collaboration skills.
• A love for and deep understanding of World of Warcraft and its universe.
• The ability to effectively communicate in both written and verbal format.
• The ability to consider feedback from multiple conflicting viewpoints and provide design guidelines for teammates to make the best overall decision.

We’re also interested in hearing stories you may have about…

• Previous management experience.
• Previous experience working on an MMO in a narrative or writing capacity.

APPLICATION MATERIALS

Resume Cover Letter, which we suggest includes a bit about you, why you are interested in working on World of Warcraft, and some games you are currently playing.

Cover letters are not required but are strongly encouraged.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .