Narrative Realization Director

2 Months ago • 8 Years +
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Narrative Realization Director at PlayStation, creating impactful player experiences. Must have 8+ years AAA experience, strong leadership, and passion for visual storytelling.

About the job

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Join the award-winning team that created God of War

Santa Monica Studio is seeking a Narrative Realization Director for the development of an upcoming new title. Do you love collaborating with talented developers to build genre-defining games? Join us as we embark on a new journey!

As the Narrative Realization Director, you ensure the narrative goals of the project are successfully realized through an effective combination of cinematics, gameplay moments, visual language, pacing, and dialogue. You are an expert visual storyteller who knows how to bring emotional resonance to the gameplay experience and has an extensive background in the creation of memorable moments at AAA level.

You are adept at interpreting the overall game vision, ideating with discipline Directors to establish high-level creative goals, then directing the work of multi-functional groups towards a cohesive final product. You champion cross-functional collaboration between narrative, design, art, animation, audio, and technical staff in the service of creating exciting and emotionally impactful player experiences.

You have a thorough understanding of every discipline involved in visual storytelling, and high-level expertise in at least one of them. You collaborate closely with Game Directors, discipline Directors, Senior Producers, and Managers, to drive AAA quality results within project budgets and schedules.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the game directors to understand the overall vision and help define the game experience, and to ensure the narrative delivery supports the quality, tone, and flow of the rest of the game
  • Focus on bringing the project’s narrative goals to fruition through cinematics, gameplay moments, and other visual storytelling methods
  • Work across disciplines to establish the appropriate method of narrative delivery and oversee planning, prototyping, and development of the work
  • Collaborate with all relevant directors, leads, and staff (Art, Character, FX, Audio, Narrative Design, Animation, Engineering, etc.) to ensure dialog, cinematic, and in-game narrative moments are fully realized and expertly delivered
  • Provide direction and feedback to cross-functional teams to guide execution and drive quality
  • Work with production and management to identify and align resourcing needs, outsourcing requirements, and project schedules
  • Work with external partners to oversee, direct, and review asset deliveries where appropriate
  • May be asked to attend performance capture shoots to provide assistance in some circumstances

Requirements

  • Lead or Director experience on AAA title with strong narrative component
  • Minimum of 8 years’ industry experience in creative and/or technical roles
  • Strong leadership skills, production sensibilities, and drive for quality
  • High comfort level with learning and utilizing proprietary tools and game engine pipelines
  • Ability to rapidly prototype, iterate, and explore game narrative ideas across disciplines
  • Ability to succeed in a creative, quality-driven, team-oriented environment
  • High comfort level with managing input and direction from multiple creative partners
  • Ability to work across multiple disciplines to gather feedback and address cross-functional issues
  • An enthusiasm for practical innovation and the ability to bring new ideas to the table
  • Excellent communication, time-management, and organizational skills

Preferred Experience

  • Experience working with Maya, MotionBuilder, or scripting tools
  • Experience of cinematography, photography, or similar
  • Experience preparing for and taking part in motion capture shoots
  • Experience working with outsourcing pipelines and partners

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$175,300—$262,900 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

$175.3K - $262.9K/yr (Outscal est.)
$219.1K/yr avg.
California, United States

About The Company

Our studio is composed of a group of diverse, ambitious, highly collaborative creatives who empower one another, while working as a team to deliver high quality narrative-driven PlayStation experiences. With origins spanning the globe - from Brazil to Poland to small town USA, we are home to over 250 world class developers who strive to push the medium forward with every creative decision.


Every team has a story and, at the heart of our story, we are committed to greatness and steadfast in our craft of developing unforgettable in-game experiences that inspire our players. Beyond that, though, we are driven by something much larger…by a desire to develop “stories” of greatness for each and every team member. Making a game is a massive undertaking. Between QA, Art, Design, Programming, Production, Sound and every department in between, we are all responsible for connecting with each other's greatest skills, while working towards a common vision.


Together, we sow seeds of possibility. Whether you are an intern or an industry veteran, creativity rules here. At our studio we recognize that great ideas can come from anyone. Traversing a new mythological world on a boat. A single camera shot for an entire game. A powerful recalling axe. A companion AI known as “boy” fighting like a god. These are just some of the bold ideas that were not simply lit by an individual light bulb...they were forged from idea, to paper, to code in a collaborative effort by creatives of all disciplines on a journey to reinvent a franchise.

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