Senior Narrative Designer – 6-Month Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Create narrative concepts, story arcs, characters, factions, and world lore.

• Work alongside creative direction and cross-functional teams to achieve a unified narrative vision.

• Collaborate with level designers on environmental storytelling and gameplay-centric narrative elements.

• Write, edit, and integrate dialogue, item descriptions, codex entries, barks, and other narrative content within the game.

• Maintain lore guides, dialogue documentation, narrative flows, and other relevant narrative materials.

• Assist cinematic, audio, and voice-over teams with narrative integration.

• Monitor narrative tasks and document changes utilizing Jira, Trello, and Miro.

• Advocate for storytelling that intertwines exploration, combat, and player engagement.

• Undertake additional responsibilities as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional experience in game development, particularly in Narrative Design, Game Design, or a related field.

• Proficiency in Unreal Engine.

• Experience in shipping at least one AA or AAA title in a Narrative Designer capacity.

• Proven track record of crafting narratives for PC and console games.

• A portfolio that displays narrative design documentation, published game work, dialogue, quest design, world-building, or similar interactive storytelling.

• Superior abilities in storytelling, dialogue writing, and world-building.

• Comprehensive understanding of how narrative supports gameplay, player agency, and level design.

• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams throughout all stages of game development.

• Strong skills in communication, documentation, and organization.

• Ability to provide creative feedback and work collaboratively with senior development teams.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, iterative production setting.

• Bonus: experience in developing action, action RPG, shooter, or adventure games.

• Bonus: familiarity with cinematic pipelines, dialogue implementation, and narrative scripting tools.

• Bonus: experience with branching dialogue, reactive narrative systems, or player-driven storytelling.

• Bonus: experience with voice-over recording sessions or cinematic production.

• A passion for dark fantasy, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, or horror settings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Six-month contract with the potential for extension based on project requirements, performance, and business needs.

• Contract compensation discussed with qualified candidates based on experience, skills, and project requirements.

• Equal opportunity employer.