Senior Narrative Designer - Remote

Overview

We are on the lookout for an enthusiastic Senior Narrative Designer to join a highly motivated team. If you've got a passion for storytelling, world-building, and crafting immersive player experiences and you enjoy working with a focused group of talented and passionate game devs then this is the place for you!

In Short

• Write and maintain documentation for world-building, story treatments, scripts, character profiles, dialogue, and environmental storytelling for the assigned project.
• Design, build, and implement dialogue and quest content in-game or through third-party tools.
• Curate Voice Over (VO) documentation and support recording sessions, including casting selection and directing actors.
• Work closely with Level Design and Game Design teams to ensure narrative flow aligns with gameplay mechanics.
• Collaborate with artists, animators, and sound designers to enhance environmental storytelling and narrative immersion.
• Coordinate with QA to identify and resolve narrative-related issues.
• Support the marketing team by providing accurate narrative representation for product presentations to partners and the public.
• Stay up to date with industry standards, emerging technologies, and narrative design techniques.
• Ensure narrative elements reflect company values and creative guidelines.
• Provide creative input for new product presentations and pitches.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Narrative Designer, Writer, or equivalent role in the video game industry.
• At least one shipped title with significant narrative responsibility.
• Strong experience in narrative design, interactive storytelling, and dialogue systems.
• Proven ability to write compelling stories, characters, and dialogue for interactive media.
• Experience working with narrative tools and quest/dialogue implementation pipelines.
• Solid understanding of game development pipelines and cross-disciplinary workflows.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt narrative content based on gameplay, production constraints, and feedback.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Experience working on AA or AAA productions.
• Familiarity with branching narratives, player choice systems, and systemic storytelling.
• Experience directing voice-over recording sessions.
• Background in world-building for long-running franchises or large narrative universes.
• Experience mentoring junior narrative designers or writers.
• Knowledge of narrative scripting languages or proprietary dialogue tools.
• Proficiency in Unreal Engine 5.