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Lead Narrative Designer

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Job Description:

As Narrative Lead, you are a key member of the studio’s leadership group, responsible for the day-to-day leadership and delivery of the Narrative team’s output. Reporting to and working in close partnership with the Narrative Director, you translate creative vision and narrative strategy into high-quality, efficient, and technically robust execution. You lead the Narrative team in planning, prioritisation, and delivery, ensuring work meets project goals, production constraints, and the studio’s creative standards. You collaborate closely with other discipline leads to align narrative development with design, art, and production, enabling smooth integration across the project. You lead by example in upholding the studio’s behavioural standards, setting clear expectations and acting as a mentor to the team. You foster a culture of craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and care for the professional growth and wellbeing of your team.

Job Responsibility:

  • Champion your team – Use planning, scoping and pipelines to ensure the narrative team can use their time be creative
  • Advocate for narrative design – You’ll be a creative too and you will want to write and add to the narrative content and understand the nuances of writing for video games
  • Economy and Efficiency –You will make important (and sometimes tough) decisions, to balance scope against value, and against team bandwidth
  • Quality first – you will plan for re-writes, iteration, rehearsal, VO prep & direction, support QA and collate feedback, limited re-records, and polish
  • Deadlines matter – You will work to and set deadlines
  • Understanding the Vision – You work with Director(s), absorbing their vision and aspirations for the game, asking for clarity, sanity checks, and identifying gaps where they exist
  • Implementing the vision – You’ll understand the game vision, and you’ll manage the narrative design that will compliment that experience, giving unique context, tone and drama where most appropriate
  • A delegator – you will delegate and encourage trust and autonomy within the team
  • A collaborator - You will work collaboratively with the Writers
  • You will participate in recruitment processes, acting as Hiring Manager and onboard new starters

Requirements:

  • Acknowledged competency in technical discipline to the level of senior (minimum requirement)
  • Demonstrable people skills
  • A good understanding of the Studio’s people culture and values
  • Strong organisational abilities
  • Willingness to take decisions and provide leadership
  • Demonstrable interest in people management
  • Willingness to learn management skills, both ‘on the job’, and internal and external course attendance
  • Previous experience of covering for line manager in times of absence or high workload
  • Excellent communication ability within the team, across multiple disciplines
  • Acts as a role model and ambassador for the team and the studio with potential to develop external diplomatic/negotiating skills
What we offer:
  • Core hours 9.30am – 4pm, remaining hours worked flexibly
  • Relocation support to Nottingham, UK (if required)
  • Holiday allowance that increases with service (to a maximum of 30 days plus statutory public holidays)
  • Annual pay reviews
  • Company pension contribution that increases with service
  • Company enhanced full pay for maternity leave for the first 26 weeks (to qualifying expectant mothers)
  • Clear career progression within Dambuster Studios
  • Studio funded learning and development opportunities
  • Modern game development environment with the latest technologies
  • Vibrant, modern city centre location with good transport links
  • Fully subsidised gym membership with Virgin gym (Nottingham)
  • Annual Christmas party and Summer Family BBQ
  • Quarterly company funded cross-team events
  • Free financial advice
  • Employee referral bonus scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Weekly office treats, including breakfast on Monday and pastries on Friday

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 30, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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