Mid/Senior Narrative Designer (Unannounced Project)

Asobo Studio is seeking a Mid/Senior Narrative Designer for an unannounced narrative project. This role offers the opportunity to join an experienced and ambitious team, contributing to creating exceptional and memorable interactive experiences. The designer will be responsible for staging narration within game levels, proposing, integrating, and adjusting narrative elements like dialogues, animations, and NPC interactions. This involves close collaboration with Writers, Level Designers, Level Artists, and Level Builders, ensuring the narrative experience is coherent and impactful from integration to final polish.

Must Have

• Minimum 4 years of experience in AA/AAA video game development (PC/consoles)
• Proficiency in a scripting language
• Proficiency in integration within a real-time 3D game engine (proprietary, Unreal Engine, Unity...)
• First experience on a narrative game
• Solid cinematographic and video game culture
• Comfortable in a team and collaborating effectively with different departments
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Good analytical skills
• Rigorous, conscientious, with a keen sense of detail
• Creative and open to criticism
• Taste for iteration and continuous improvement
• Operational proficiency in French and English

Perks & Benefits

• Opportunity to join an experienced and ambitious team
• Encouragement for professional development and expertise enhancement
• Contribution to creating memorable interactive experiences
• Reimbursement of round-trip travel to Bordeaux for the technical interview (if applicable)

What is Asobo Studio?

The answer in video from David Dedeine, co-founder and Creative Director of the studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFjvF29zUZM

In short: Innovation x Immersion x Emotion

For over 20 years, we have been behind 25 games for PC and consoles, including famous licenses, original games, and innovative creations.

Today, we work with over 300 employees on Microsoft Flight Simulator, the A Plague Tale franchise, and HoloForge, the studio's XR department.

Our goal as a studio is to create exceptional, memorable interactive experiences for our players.

Pursuing this goal is our source of daily inspiration and satisfaction. It pushes us to always do better, to progress, and to surpass ourselves: this is what guides us and gives meaning to everything we do here.

Why joining us for this position is a great opportunity?

Because it's the prospect of joining an experienced and very ambitious team where you will be encouraged to give your best and ultimately continue to develop your expertise. Our goal is to create strong emotions for our players, and you will concretely participate by ensuring the narrative experience across several levels on the studio's new narrative project.

The team and missions

Under the supervision of Clémentine, Lead Narrative Designer, you will evolve within a team composed of a Level Designer, a Level Artist, and a Level Builder.

Based on the Creative Direction's brief, you will be responsible for staging the narration within the levels.

You will propose, integrate, and adjust the elements composing the narrative events in the levels: dialogues, animations, NPC interaction systems... You will ensure the follow-up of the creation of these elements with the different departments (narration, design, art, animation, code...) and remain involved until debugging and final polish.

Day-to-day, this translates into constant collaboration with:

• the Writers, to iterate on dialogues and staging in light of your integration (line length, density, content, etc.)

• the Level Designer of your team, to pace and stage the gameplay in the different levels

• the Level Artist and Level Builder of your team, to set up a coherent environmental narration

The fundamentals for succeeding in this role

• You have a minimum of 4 years of experience in AA/AAA video game development, PC/consoles
• You master a scripting language
• You master integration in a real-time 3D game engine (proprietary, Unreal Engine, Unity...)
• You have a first experience on a narrative game
• You have a solid cinematographic and video game culture
• You are comfortable in a team and collaborating effectively with different departments
• You have excellent communication: easy contact, clarity of purpose, ability to synthesize, both written and oral (knowing when to get up from your chair to speak live rather than sending an email)
• You have good analytical skills: identify everything that makes a sequence work or not
• You are rigorous, conscientious, with a keen sense of detail
• You are a creative person and demonstrate originality in the ideas proposed while being able to question yourself/receive criticism
• You have a taste for iteration and the constant search for the best version of a sequence
• You are operationally proficient in French and English (read, written, spoken)

Your application

If this opportunity seems like an exciting new step for your career, we would be delighted to meet you.

We know that some people hesitate to apply when they are not convinced they meet all the requirements for a position. If you are not sure you meet all the criteria, go for it!

Share with us what you can bring to the project; we look forward to discovering your unique talents, whether for this position or for a future opportunity.

Send your CV, cover letter, and achievements (professional and personal projects) via the form below.

Next steps?

• Review of your application

• Technical test (if applicable)

• Interview with a member of the HR team (remote)

• Technical interview with the project Leads (in person, when possible, and we reimburse your round trip to Bordeaux)

If you want to know us better, check out our LinkedIn, there's plenty to discover about life at Asobo!

See you soon!

The Asobo team

Asobo Studio is an employer that subscribes to the principles of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity. All qualified individuals will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, or any other non-professional factor.

We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you need a specific accommodation for a position, please do not hesitate to mention it during your interview with the recruitment team.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.