Lead Writer
Skills
TrainingContinuous ImprovementFictionInternet ProtocolLeadershipPartner Relationship ManagementPlaytesting
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Extensive professional experience writing narrative content for games or interactive media
- Experience leading writers or narrative teams on large-scale creative projects
- Excellent editing skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Strong understanding of branching narrative player agency and interactive storytelling
- Experience working with licensed IP or established brands
- Excellent planning prioritisation and project management skills
- Experience managing multiple deadlines and stakeholders simultaneously
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- A collaborative positive and solutions-focused approach to leadership
Day to day
- Lead the narrative delivery of a complete game season from concept through release, coordinating writers' rooms, script development, reviews, rewrites, playtesting and launch.
- Write, edit and review interactive scripts to an exceptional standard while maintaining character voice, tone, branching narrative and player agency.
- Manage and develop a team of writers, support recruitment and onboarding, and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external IP partners.