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Narrative Director

THE STUDIO
We are a company for gamers, by gamers. We believe that truly good and deeply compelling games are timeless and will ultimately prevail over fine-tuned shallow addiction cycles. Our mission is to make deeply engaging and technically outstanding games, while embracing all the opportunities of cross-platform, new business models and a games industry in flux.

We are looking for motivated and highly skilled people who share our love for making outstanding games. You will need to be ready to take on the task of being part of a small but experienced and dedicated team, not be afraid to get your hands dirty, and have a can-do attitude. Join us! It’s going to be a thrilling ride.

NARRATIVE DIRECTOR
As the Narrative Director, you will be a major force in shaping the narrative & storytelling for a brand new IP for an AAA project still in its early stages. You'll take a leadership role in telling the story of a brand new world, and implementing it over the course of the project. We're looking for someone who loves finding creative and non-traditional ways to tell stories, convey personality, and impart emotion into a game experience.

• Passion and skill to generate captivating personalities, settings, emotional arcs, and themes that create lasting memories.
• Desire and ability to take an idea and see it through to implementation, guiding artists, designers, and other team members to bring vision to life
• The ability to direct external writers and edit their work
• Extraordinary levels of collaboration, and leadership all while making high-level decisions that lead to compelling vision
• Ability to create a cohesive set of storylines that intertwine throughout the game's experience.
• Experience navigating the narrative budget and schedule
• Ability to direct through text, audio, graphics, animation, VFX, and Voice actors, and more, to tell a compelling story.
• Able to bring out the personalities of our characters through a compelling storyline that forks out in multiple directions without sacrificing overall cohesion.
• Experience working with publishers.
• Shipped at least one AAA title or narratively impactful AA title from inception to launch in a creative/narrative leadership role
• 8+ years total game development experience

• Manage and balance competing demands between creative vision and technical / ludonarrative constraints
• Help shape tools development & evolution which enables other creatives to author effectively
• Provide constructive feedback to team members and stakeholders
• Coding/Scripting experience, implementing narrative work into a project
• Ability to edit, and polish in-game dialog, video scripts, and other player-facing content.