Description
Electronic Arts is seeking a Narrative Lead to join the Battlefield team at Criterion Games. As a Narrative Lead, you will help lead one of the teams, setting and developing the narrative vision for an exciting part of Battlefield's future.
The role involves collaborating with the Creative Director and Senior Narrative Director to deliver the core story and narrative vision, working with narrative discipline leaders to create benchmark pieces, ensuring narrative content aligns with franchise pillars, and coordinating task management for a team of narrative designers and writers.
Responsibilities include:
- Collaborating with the Creative Director and Senior Narrative Director to deliver the core story and narrative vision
- Working with narrative discipline leaders to create benchmark pieces that help set the tone, style, and format for scripted elements across the game
- Ensuring narrative content aligns with franchise pillars
- Coordinating task management, goal setting, and planning for a team of narrative designers and writers
- Overseeing tasking, reporting, and feedback for contract writers
- Partnering closely with designers and producers to assist in setting the narrative design vision
- Mentoring and developing others on the narrative and wider design team in narrative design principles and methodologies
Qualifications:
- Proven writing experience covering cutscenes, in-game scripts, bios, casting briefs, and in-game text
- Practical understanding and experience of narrative design techniques and approaches
- Shipped multiple projects, including AAA projects, with a narrative role
- 8+ years of writing experience in various forms of media
- Experience maintaining voice, style, and tone throughout multiple forms of media
- Understanding of how to break down and convey narrative to teams who are less familiar with them
- Knowledge of and ability to help develop and refine narrative and cinematic tools
- Writing/narrative design portfolio that demonstrates your work
- Interest in videogames, military shooters, and military history
- Practical experience of working with directors on voice, motion, and/or performance capture shoots
- Leadership experience that shows a track to, or includes credits such as lead, director, or equivalent, mentorship roles, other leadership roles
Benefits include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more.