# Narrative Director

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Montreal, Quebec
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates high-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. In this role as Narrative Director, you will direct efforts to create a coherent fiction for the Battlefield universe.

As a Narrative Director, you will have broad influence, from contextualising gameplay, to defining the game's 'voice', to directing the writing team to deliver a compelling core story. You will report to the Creative Director and collaborate with other chapter directors, producers, and narrative team members.

Key responsibilities:

- Shape the themes, tones, and atmosphere of the game's setting and overall experience

- Build and direct a writing and narrative design team

- Set the narrative vision, pillars, and strategy for the product

- Establish and maintain the narrative direction for the project

- Partner with other discipline directors and producers to integrate the narrative into the game

- Find innovative ways to communicate stories through the world that promote player agency

- Support and guide the environment team in researching history, locations, and events

- Determine production priorities, high-level schedule, and scope adjustments with Producers and senior partners

- Be a partner in the casting and recording processes

- Guide the ideation process as the team brainstorms ideas, characters, quests, and narrative structure

- Manage senior members of the Narrative team

- Develop others on the narrative and wider design team in narrative design principles and methodologies

- Collaborate with and lead other game writers and narrative designers to build narrative gameplay elements

- Work with the game design team to develop gameplay features to support and convey the story

- Provide regular feedback

- Support and encourage a mindset of diversity and inclusion

Requirements:

- Previous experience as a Narrative Director on an AAA game

- Experience with narrative writing and game design

- Understanding of best practices for creating high-quality narrative gameplay experiences

- Experience with games and bringing passion for narrative to help shape the culture of a team

- Excellent team leadership and communication skills

- Ability to create and communicate vision to partners and lead strategic efforts with the team

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, and career well-being

- Flexible work arrangements

- Opportunities for growth and development

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.

## Skills

### Required
- narrative design
- game design
- writing
- team leadership
- communication

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