Narrative Director

About this task

Role overview:
Define and direct a coherent narrative vision for the game, including its fictional world, voice, core story, themes, tone, and atmosphere. Lead the writing and narrative-design team and work with creative leadership, discipline directors, producers, and other partners to integrate narrative into a high-quality AAA gameplay experience. Report to the Creative Director.

Responsibilities:
- Help shape the themes, tone, atmosphere, setting, and overall experience of the game.
- Build and direct a writing and narrative-design team.
- Establish the narrative vision, pillars, strategy, and direction for the product.
- Ensure narrative direction supports the creative vision, gameplay goals, and project structure and is implemented to the expected quality.
- Partner with discipline directors and producers to integrate narrative into gameplay.
- Develop innovative ways to communicate stories through the game world while supporting player agency.
- Guide the environment team in researching history, locations, and events for the narrative vision and underlying themes.
- Determine production priorities, the high-level schedule, and scope.