Narrative Director

Electronic Arts is seeking a Narrative Director to join their team in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The successful candidate will direct the company's efforts to create a coherent fiction for their world, influencing contextual gameplay, defining the game's voice, and guiding the writing team to deliver a compelling core story.

The Narrative Director will report to the Creative Director and collaborate with other chapter directors, producers, narrative team members, and partners to define the Narrative vision for the product. Key responsibilities include:

• Shaping the themes, tones, and atmosphere of the game's setting and overall experience
• Building and directing a writing and narrative design team
• Setting the narrative vision, pillars, and strategy for the product
• Establishing and maintaining the narrative direction for the project
• Partnering with other discipline directors and producers to integrate the narrative into the game
• Finding innovative ways to communicate stories through the world that promote player agency
• Supporting and guiding the environment team in researching history, locations, and events
• Determining production priorities, high-level schedules, and scope adjustments with Producers and senior partners
• Being a partner in the casting and recording processes
• Guiding the ideation process as the team brainstorms ideas, characters, quests, and narrative structure
• Managing senior members of the Narrative team
• Developing others on the narrative and wider design team in narrative design principles and methodologies
• Collaborating with and leading other game writers and narrative designers to build narrative gameplay elements
• Working with the game design team to develop gameplay features to support and convey the story
• Providing regular feedback
• Supporting and encouraging a mindset of diversity and inclusion

The ideal candidate will have:

• 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 a vision to partners and lead strategic efforts with the team
• Experience managing quality, consistency, and coherency across a team of creatives and designers
• Expertise in competitive intelligence