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<p>Firaxis Games is looking for a talented Narrative Lead for a sequel to an established AAA Title. This is an opportunity to join an established team behind some of the industry’s most beloved franchises such as the <em>XCOM </em>and the <em>Civilization </em>series and work on a beloved worldwide IP.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>What is the role?</strong></p>
<p>We are looking for someone to own and execute the Narrative of an upcoming title.  You will work closely with the Creative Director to help create a story in a well-known IP universe. Working with a team you will drive the execution of a strong narrative vision.</p>
<p><strong><br />We are looking for someone who:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Can effectively direct a team of writers, both internal and external across multiple locations.</li>
<li>Has shipped at least one AAA title in a credited Lead or Director role.</li>
<li>Is experienced in writing cinematics as well as in-game content (including branching dialogues).</li>
<li>Is experienced using in-game tools and can help drive their development.</li>
<li>Can represent the story of the game both internally as well as to external partners.</li>
<li>Has a sense of visual storytelling.   Can work with the Cinematic Director as well as writers, designers, and animators to help block-out, build, and finalize scenes.</li>
</ul>
<p> <br /><strong>Required Skills:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Strong writing skills, particularly dialog.</li>
<li>Mastery of story structure and pacing across media.</li>
<li>Strong communication skills – able to collaborate with multiple disciplines effectively. </li>
</ul>
<p><strong><br />Nice to haves:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A Proficiency in Unreal and/or other game engines.</li>
<li>Voice or live action Directing experience</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><strong><em>Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use </em></strong><strong><em>Firaxis.com</em></strong><strong><em> or </em></strong><strong><em>2K.com</em></strong><strong><em> accounts.</em></strong></p>
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<div><div>Remedy Entertainment, the creator of Control®, Max Payne®, Alan Wake® and one of the leading independent game studios in the world is looking for a Narrative Lead for a key role working on the Max Payne franchise. </div><div> </div><div><i>Does the Max Payne franchise have a special place in your heart? Then this is a unique opportunity to be a key part of the New Max Payne 1&amp;2 Project, working closely with the core team and leading the Narrative Design of the project.  </i></div><div> </div><div>As a <b>Narrative Lead </b>for our Max Payne remake, you will have the opportunity to join the team early in the project and, under the direction of the Game Director, be responsible for driving the design and implementation of the game’s narrative. You will work with a small team, collaborating with Mission and Game Designers in creating memorable gaming experiences through a well-balanced mix of compelling narrative and intense action in a remake of a beloved franchise. </div><div><br /></div><div>We enthusiastically welcome diverse viewpoints and backgrounds. We at Remedy value and are committed to ensuring an inclusive and safe work environment for all our team members.  </div></div><div><div><h3>What you get to do </h3><ul><ul><li>Under the direction of the project’s Game Director, you will be responsible for driving the design and implementation of the game’s narrative</li><li>Collaborate with the Narrative Team to build and translate the game’s story, structure, world-building, etc. into compelling missions and gameplay</li><li>Drive the design, creation and implementation of narrative systems that support the game’s creative and gameplay vision</li><li>Work with Mission Designers and other disciplines to implement, support and maintain all narrative content in the game</li><li>Define and track the schedule for the team as you work within the constraints of the project</li><li>Support your colleagues through mentorship and reviewing their work</li><li>Help establish, maintain, and improve best practices, quality, pipelines, tools and processes for narrative design and writing</li><li>Assist in recording sessions, performance capture shoots and casting as needed</li><li>Create and maintain documentation as needed to communicate the game’s narrative/design vision</li><li>Be a reliable and proactive source of information, facilitating efficient and clear communication with other departments </li></ul></ul></div></div><div><div><h3>What you bring to the role </h3><ul><ul><li>You have demonstrable leadership experience or have made significant contributions as a Narrative Designer to shipped titles (AAA or similar)</li><li>You have a solid understanding of narrative, game design and visual storytelling techniques</li><li>You are experienced in creating clear, understandable narrative and design documentation</li><li>You are comfortable working with scripting languages (Lua, Python, Blueprints, etc.)</li><li>You have experience with 3D level editors (Unreal, Unity, CryEngine, or proprietary engines, etc.)</li><li>You are flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances and production realities</li><li>You thrive working in a team environment, sharing ideas, and learning from others. You enjoy collaborating with colleagues across departments</li><li>You are dedicated to creating and maintaining a friendly and inclusive workplace </li></ul></ul></div></div><div><div><h3>What is in it for you</h3><ul><ul><li>At Remedy you get to work on awesome, memorable gaming experiences for our players, in a studio where your input is valued and your creative freedom is encouraged. </li><li>We work in an environment that values both individual and teamwork, ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard &amp; workload stays sensible. We believe in and support work-life balance. Happy people work better!</li><li>We offer an extensive set of employee benefits and an annual bonus system as well as opportunities for you to develop your skills further. On top of this, in Finland and Sweden you get up to 5 weeks of paid vacation, in addition to public holidays and other special occasions. </li><li>Our studio is based in Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland, a safe country with exceptional quality of life, free education and pristine nature at your doorstep. If you're not already in Finland, our relocation service is there every step of the way to take care of you. You can concentrate on work, while we’ll take care of everything else!</li><li>If you are based in Sweden, we also welcome candidates to our new location in Stockholm. </li><li>Our studio is embracing hybrid work model that gives you the flexibility to work from home and have valuable face-to-face time with your colleagues. </li></ul></ul></div></div><div><div>To <b>apply</b>, please fill in the application form with your CV (<b>English</b>), work references/portfolio and other information relevant to the position. This position will be filled as soon as suitable applicants are found. </div></div><div>Apply for this job</div>

<p>We are looking for a Gameplay Engineer experienced in modern AAA narrative solutions to drive narrative system innovations in the Unreal Engine. This role will build runtime systems that weave together text and audio from multiple languages into the world to create immersive gameplay and tell compelling stories. You will also work together with tools engineers, audio engineers, writers, and designers to create friction-free workflows for storytelling, and pipelines for text and voice in multiple languages.</p>
<p>As an experienced Unreal developer, you will share your knowledge with both veteran and junior teammates to guide them in learning best practices, gotchas, tips and tricks with the Unreal Engine. You will be a resource to them for questions, architectural advice, and general help where needed.</p>
<p>If you are excited to be a force multiplier for a team of incredibly talented developers, removing the barriers that stand between an idea and an implementation, helping them to learn the Unreal Engine, and to build upon your knowledge of narrative systems to enable innovative new methods of storytelling, this is the role for you!</p>
<p><strong>About Our Team</strong></p>
<p>The Engineering team at ArenaNet thrives on a wide array of perspectives, experiences, and interests. We know that the best creations come from healthy and friendly teams. Our work is woven together with the efforts of other disciplines and crafts within game development. We seek out voices and ideas that might be new to us. We are always on the lookout for ways to help each other, both within the Engineering team, and throughout the studio as a whole.</p>
<p><strong>Who We Are Looking For</strong></p>
<p>You, our ideal candidate, are experienced with modern AAA narrative solutions in UE4 and excited about how to leverage what’s new in UE5. You have a good working knowledge of game content tools, asset pipelines, and the text localization process. You understand performance costs of gameplay systems and how to diagnose, debug, and optimize them. You are skilled at debugging not only code, but entire human-driven processes. You can identify bottlenecks and pain points in workflows, develop solutions, and gather customer feedback for continuous improvement of our tools and systems.</p>
<p>Listening and communication skills is, at this point in your career, natural to you. You use your strong listening skills to understand design goals and can creatively synthesize solutions for those goals based on your experience and the capabilities of the engine. You use your strong communication skills to present those options in a way that makes sense to designers and the rest of the team.</p>
<p>Mentoring and teaching are activities that you take pleasure in as part of your day-to-day endeavors. You enjoy evangelizing best practices based on your experience with Unreal and respectfully guiding and mentoring teammates to fish at your level with the engine.</p>
<p>You are at home working together with non-technical colleagues to develop good practices, technical constraints, and team standards. You are always endeavoring to improve processes, tools, and workflows to maintain the quality and stability of the work produced across disciplines in a fast-paced environment.</p>

    <div><div><div>We are open to remote work in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, MA, MD, NC, NV, NY OR, TX, UT and WA or onsite/hybrid/flex at our office in Bellevue, WA.<br /><br />Total compensation is salary plus an annual bonus potential<em>. </em>Please note that the listed pay range is a general guideline only. We take into consideration the geography in which you live and your experience and qualifications when determining final salary. This role is also eligible for medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, 401(k), flexible and dependent care spending accounts, PTO, paid holidays and parental leave.<em><br /></em></div><div>Remote pay range</div><div>$100,000—$180,000 USD</div></div></div>

<p> </p>
<p>Firaxis Games is looking for a talented Narrative Lead for a sequel to an established AAA Title. This is an opportunity to join an established team behind some of the industry’s most beloved franchises such as the <em>XCOM </em>and the <em>Civilization </em>series and work on a beloved worldwide IP.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>What is the role?</strong></p>
<p>We are looking for someone to own and execute the Narrative of an upcoming title.  You will work closely with the Creative Director to help create a story in a well-known IP universe. Working with a team you will drive the execution of a strong narrative vision.</p>
<p><strong><br />We are looking for someone who:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Can effectively direct a team of writers, both internal and external across multiple locations.</li>
<li>Has shipped at least one AAA title in a credited Lead or Director role.</li>
<li>Is experienced in writing cinematics as well as in-game content (including branching dialogues).</li>
<li>Is experienced using in-game tools and can help drive their development.</li>
<li>Can represent the story of the game both internally as well as to external partners.</li>
<li>Has a sense of visual storytelling.   Can work with the Cinematic Director as well as writers, designers, and animators to help block-out, build, and finalize scenes.</li>
</ul>
<p> <br /><strong>Required Skills:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Strong writing skills, particularly dialog.</li>
<li>Mastery of story structure and pacing across media.</li>
<li>Strong communication skills – able to collaborate with multiple disciplines effectively. </li>
</ul>
<p><strong><br />Nice to haves:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A Proficiency in Unreal and/or other game engines.</li>
<li>Voice or live action Directing experience</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p><strong><em>Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use </em></strong><strong><em>Firaxis.com</em></strong><strong><em> or </em></strong><strong><em>2K.com</em></strong><strong><em> accounts.</em></strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong><em>#LI-WA1   #LI-hybrid</em></strong></p>

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