Lead Narrative Designer (TFT)

We are seeking an experienced Lead Narrative Designer to join the Battlefield team on a fixed-term basis to provide maternity leave cover. In this role, you will partner closely with cross-discipline teams to drive the implementation and delivery of narrative content, ensuring a cohesive, immersive player experience that aligns with Battlefield's tone, lore, and gameplay pillars.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, champion, and uphold the narrative vision, tone, and storytelling goals across the game.
• Lead and mentor a small team of narrative designers, providing clear direction, feedback, and support to maintain consistency and high-quality standards across all narrative content.
• Design, prototype, and iterate on narrative systems, including dialogue frameworks, branching logic, environmental storytelling, in-world messaging, and interactive narrative moments.
• Own the end-to-end implementation of dialogue content within the game engine.
• Collaborate with audio and cinematic teams to ensure performances are correctly hooked up, timed, and contextually responsive to gameplay.
• Work closely with level design, gameplay, art, audio, and cinematic teams to embed narrative meaningfully into all aspects of the player experience.
• Create and maintain clear, detailed narrative documentation, including system designs, implementation workflows, VO pipelines, and Confluence pages.
• Continuously refine narrative content based on playtests, team feedback, and production needs.
• Manage narrative priorities and workload, ensuring timely delivery of assets in line with project milestones.

Experience & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Narrative Design, with at least 1-2 shipped AAA titles in a Senior or Lead capacity (FPS/action experience preferred).
• Strong understanding of interactive storytelling, narrative structure, and character development.
• Hands-on experience implementing narrative content in game engines (e.g. Unreal, Unity, Frostbite).
• Familiarity with production tools and pipelines (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Perforce).
• Experience designing and implementing branching dialogue and narrative systems.
• Proven leadership and mentorship skills, with the ability to guide and develop others.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Passion for military action storytelling and familiarity with the Battlefield franchise.