Narrative Systems Designer

Activision is looking for a Narrative Designer to join the development of our next AAA title—an Open World RPG set in a new, epic IP. 
 
Feed your creativity while collaborating with our team of highly-skilled developers to build something innovative, exhilarating, and expansively entertaining! 
 
As a member of the narrative department, you’ll create memorable characters and compelling plots as well as design and write the many types of fictional stories, dialogues, cinematics, and other texts in our game. As a member of the project, you’ll help take the studio and our game from great to even better—with a focus on inclusivity, mutual respect (for ourselves and our players), thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration.  
 
If you’re a passionate writer and a positive, respectful collaborator who enjoys cross-department communication and creative problem-solving as a part of your workflow, we’d love to talk to you! 
 
You’ll help us by… 

• Developing a new intellectual property’s foundational lore 

• Collaborating with the narrative team and other departments in creating the game’s locations, characters, factions, quests, and plots 

• Writing and revising RPG dialogue and cinematic scripts 

• Designing, writing, and implementing text for quests, journals, examinables, NPC chatter, items, abilities, and other narrative systems 

• Crafting detailed backstories for the game's locations, factions, and characters 

• Becoming proficient in using the game's proprietary narrative tool 

• Providing constructive feedback on others’ work 

• Acting as a liaison to other departments, conveying the consistent narrative vision of the project 

• Assisting with character casting and preparing scripts for VO and Mocap sessions 

• Ensuring all tasks are completed according to given specifications and deadlines 

• Performing any additional narrative design responsibilities as assigned by Narrative Leadership 

You’re awesome because you have… 

• 3+ years experience as a professional Narrative Designer (or some combination of applicable training and experience) 

• Demonstrable and strong skills as a writer and editor 

• The ability to collaborate and thrive as part of a creative team 

• Creativity in problem solving and a positive, respectful team-first attitude 

• Experience pitching game narrative concepts in a clear, detailed manner, through strong written and verbal skills 

• Organization methods and the capability to meet deadlines 

• Comfort with self-critique and accepting outside feedback 

• A habit of regularly playing and understanding modern video games 

Bonus points for… 

• Experience with writing for AAA games 

• One or more shipped titles 

• RPG dialogue experience, particularly, branching dialogue 

• Experience with technical narrative design (implementation in tools, visual scripting, etc) 

• Published writing (novels, short fiction, film, television, comics, etc) 

• Enjoyment of playing a variety of video game genres and titles 

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. 

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