# 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 **Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/sv_SE/careers/JobDetail/Narrative-Director/216118?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3922f234-e37 ## Description Electronic Arts is seeking a Narrative Director to lead the creation of a coherent fiction for their world. The successful candidate will have broad influence, from contextualizing gameplay to defining the game's voice and directing the writing team. As a Narrative Director, you will direct our efforts to create a compelling core story. You will report to the Creative Director and collaborate with other chapter directors, producers, and narrative team members. The goal is to develop a high-quality narrative AAA gameplay experience. 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 communication and leadership skills - Ability to create and communicate vision to partners and lead strategic efforts with the team - Experience managing quality, consistency, and coherency across a team of creatives and designers Benefits: - Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, economic, and career well-being support - Customized packages to meet local needs, including health insurance, mental wellness support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more ## Skills ### Required - narrative design - game design - storytelling - leadership - communication ### Nice to have - AAA game development - narrative writing - game development - team management --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/sv_SE/careers/JobDetail/Narrative-Director/216118?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)