Narrative Designer

As Narrative Designer, you will help further bring to life the universe of one of the world’s largest game franchises – Candy Crush - as well as shape the narrative for a range of new and existing casual and social games. Your main responsibilities will include:

- Write compelling stories, characters, and dialogues for a broad variety of games, always keeping the mobile platform in mind.
- Participate in devising the game’s narrative vision, an overarching premise, and narrative context as well as work with the broader creative team to help define the look of the game universe.
- Work closely with all crafts in the game teams as well as all supporting functions (Globalization, Marketing, etc.) to ensure consistency of narrative within and across our Stockholm titles.
- Act as the narrative go-to-person within the team, including participating in team meetings and presenting narrative to internal and external stakeholders.
- Create and maintain narrative documentation of the game world including story, character bios, locations, items, UI copy, etc.

Skills to create thrills

You are a passionate storyteller who collaborates effectively with different disciplines in a game team (Design, Art, Production) to breathe life into the most basic of storylines, creating detailed and compelling worlds, stories, and characters.

Furthermore, you have:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high mastery of the English language.
- Proven experience writing stories, characters, and dialogue for games as well as UI/UX copy for either games or mobile platforms.
- Proven understanding of mobile production practices with the ability to develop creative narrative approaches that maximize platform potential.
- Excellent organizational skills.

Please send us a portfolio with writing samples

Bonus points:

- Experience writing scripts, cutscenes, and voice-over lines for games or relevant media.

The location of our first studio and the birthplace of Candy Crush Saga, Stockholm – with all its urban delights and open spaces – holds a special place in our hearts. Built over 14 islands, it’s one of the world’s most unique and beautiful capital cities. With King based right in the centre, it’ll be yours to enjoy and explore.

People come from all over the world to work with us, and we want every single one of them to feel at home. To do so, we help you out as much as we can with our relocation package. This includes full visa sponsorship for you and any family member moving with you, covering your journey out here, the cost of shipping your gadgets or helping you with estate agents.

See more about our relocation process at: https://jobs.king.com/benefits#relocation