πUkraine
Lead Narrative Designer
closed
Jam City
πRemote - United States
Summary
Join Jam City as a Lead Narrative Designer to bring your expert writing and game design skills to our hit mobile game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. You'll collaborate with top industry talent and take ownership in the narrative process from initial concept to final product.
Requirements
- Mastery of writing and expert proficiency in narrative design techniques
- High organizational, time management, and prioritizing skills in a rapidly changing creative environment
- A team leader as well as a team player in motivation, communication, and attitude
- Aptitude for managing and mentoring less experienced narrative designers
- High-level understanding of the game development process and F2P mobile game design pipelines and market trends
- Expert-level proficiency in reviewing work, giving constructive feedback, and maintaining narrative continuity
- Ability to apply both qualitative and quantitative strategic thinking skills
- Ability to efficiently multitask cross-departmentally without compromising creative quality
- Exceptional writing, proofreading, and copy editing skills
- Outstanding written and interpersonal communication
- Experience scripting dialogue for large casts of original and canon characters
- Experience structuring and tracking multiple branching storylines
- Leadership experience in small team settings
Responsibilities
- Leads a gameβs narrative vision and adapts it to align with data, executive and partner feedback, and the game teamβs changing needs
- Manages, trains, and mentors a team of narrative designers, leading the design process and setting the quality bar for execution
- Drives creative quality forward by example, and giving feedback and direction where needed
- Leads the tactical (day-to-day) narrative operations, establishing best practices and aligning processes with the gameβs production pipelines
- Owns the relationship with external partners to determine upcoming narrative content, obtain approvals, and communicate the partnersβ narrative and overall creative feedback to the team
- Serves as a key stakeholder in creative meetings and in the development of the gameβs initiatives and new features
- Collaborates directly with Product, Design, Production, Art, and Animation Leads to coordinate all facets of Narrative with F2P mobile business goals
- Leads the shaping of high-level overarching stories for upcoming features, events and/or large content releases
- Produces high-quality quest outlines and copy on deadline as needed
- Integrates inventive writing with design to support both creative and monetization objectives
- Leads brainstorming sessions and evaluates pitches based on creative and monetization objectives, keeping within limited art and design scope
- Innovates with high accuracy across multiple iterations, addressing feedback, incorporating notes, and executing revisions
- Facilitates the training of new hires and narrative designers
This job is filled or no longer available
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