Remote Lead AAA Game Narrative Designer

Placements24; Kempton Park; Remote; ZAR 1,975,000 - 2,962,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive health insurance (incl.

Performance-based bonuses

Stock options

Generous paid time off

Professional development budget

Job summary

Placements24 presents a fully remote Lead Game Narrative Designer role with a renowned game studio. You will shape the narrative direction of a flagship title, craft worlds, and define character voice, working with a distributed team to deliver a cohesive, immersive story.

As a senior storyteller, you will lead a team of designers and writers, drive narrative systems, write dialogue, and iterate through playtests.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in narrative design for video games, including at least one shipped AAA title in a lead role.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating writing, storytelling, and narrative design for interactive media.
• Proficiency with narrative design tools and game engines (Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary tools).
• Deep understanding of narrative structure, character development, and pacing in interactive contexts.
• Experience leading and managing creative teams in a distributed, often remote setting.
• Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills; strong communication and presentation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the overall narrative vision and strategy for game titles.
• Create narrative design documents with plot outlines, backstories, and dialogues.
• Collaborate with designers, writers, artists, and audio to ensure narrative integration.
• Lead and mentor a team of narrative designers and writers.
• Write engaging dialogue, lore entries, and in-game text.
• Design and implement narrative systems, branching dialogue, and quests.
• Conduct playtesting and user research to gather feedback and iterate.
• Champion the narrative vision to stakeholders and other teams.
• Maintain narrative consistency throughout development.
• Document lore, history, and world-building elements.

Skills

Narrative design

Storytelling

Leadership

Remote collaboration

Communication

Writing

Problem solving

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Proprietary tools

Job description

Placements24 presents a fully remote Lead Game Narrative Designer role with a renowned game studio. You will shape the narrative direction of a flagship title, craft worlds, and define character voice, working with a distributed team to deliver a cohesive, immersive story.

As a senior storyteller, you will lead a team of designers and writers, drive narrative systems, write dialogue, and iterate through playtests.