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Senior Narrative Designer

Bad Robot Games is looking for a Senior Narrative Designer. Play a key role in forging unforgettable stories.

As a Senior Narrative Designer, you are one of the key players in developing and realizing unforgettable game worlds. We’re looking for someone who’s deeply skilled, but also a flexible generalist. The ideal candidate will inspire with amazing ideas, but also work with all disciplines to break them down into realizable systems and actions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate directly with team and project leadership to identify ambitious goals, create a timeline and plan to realize them. Lead with a plan, but also by example as you own large features or aspects of the game world.
• Bring emotional meaning to the game. Draw on a large range of storytelling tools and techniques to make the story, the characters and the events matter.
• Display a deep ability to apply traditional narrative techniques through systems, but also seek to innovate in new and emerging narrative forms. Push boundaries and keep pushing.
• Bring a consistency to language in both narrative design execution and in-world terminology; from front end text, to performance capture, and everything in-between.
• Constructively critique and contribute to excellent realization in writing, lore, voice over and physical performance fields. Make greatness happen.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• A passionate, creative approach to telling great stories. Self-motivated, with strong opinions and a desire to excel.
• Demonstrated experience in developing engaging and unique interactive experiences. 3+ years contributing as a narrative designer, writer, and potentially other narrative-oriented role in game production at a senior level. A variety of experiences are a plus.
• Excellence in creative writing in all forms of game media, and a passion for breaking new ground in cross-media.
• Ability to lay out and communicate information in a variety of mediums, including Miro and Google Suite. Communicating an inspirational vision for narrative content. Ability to present. Listening skills.
• Mentoring, supporting and growing other developers.

BONUSES

• Experience of multiple genres
• Unreal Engine or other in-engine experience

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