Lead Narrative Designer

• Lead and mentor a pod of narrative designers across projects
• Define narrative design standards, workflows, and best practices
• Review narrative content for quality, consistency, and gameplay alignment
• Ensure narrative integrates cleanly with gameplay systems and production pipelines
• Communicate narrative intent clearly to internal teams and external clients
• Maintain high-quality narrative documentation and handoff processes
• Build narrative structure of a game and outline details of the game world, characters, and lore
• Write and compose cut scenes and narrative sequences.
• Formalize documents, update the narrative structure and its implementation, according to principles established by the client.
• Describe narrative situations, create documents defining their content and role in the course of the game.
• Participate in the development of specific features, assets, narrative/scripted events, as well as in their implementation and debug.
• Throughout the production, make necessary changes to narrative systems and scripted events according to feedback, to provide a consistent narrative experience and a desired player experience.

• Experience leading or mentoring narrative designers
• Deep understanding of narrative design across multiple game genres
• Strong storytelling, communication, and organizational skills
• Ability to balance creative vision with production and client constraints
• Proficient knowledge of industry-standard design tools
• Familiarity with collaborations and handoff tools used in game development pipelines
• You understand the gameplay elements and how they impact a story
• Experience as a narrative manger or lead writer on a AA or AAA game
• 5+ years of writing or narrative design experience in the game industry
• Good at written English
• Experience working in co-development or multi-project environments is a plus

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