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Lead Writer
Fusebox Games
Manchester, GBR
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Narrative writing for games or interactive mediaInteractive storytellingBranching narrativePlayer agencyEditingNarrative team leadership
Role Overview
Lead narrative delivery for one live project in a creative leadership role combining writing, editing, project management, people leadership, and stakeholder management.
Key Skills for This Role
Narrative writing for games or interactive mediaInteractive storytellingBranching narrativePlayer agencyEditingNarrative team leadership
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About Fusebox Games
Fusebox Games creates choice-based narrative mobile games and interactive narrative experiences using licensed IP and original stories.
About the role
Lead narrative delivery for one live project in a creative leadership role combining writing, editing, project management, people leadership, and stakeholder management.
Project leadership and narrative quality
- Lead a complete game season from concept through release and own planning with Production and the Narrative Producer.
- Coordinate writers' rooms, script development, reviews, rewrites, playtesting, and launch; deliver milestones on time and to a high standard.
- Improve narrative workflows and delivery processes.
- Write, edit, and review interactive scripts; maintain character voice, tone, branching narrative, and player agency.
- Align content with IP, creative vision, and narrative standards; resolve quality issues before release and champion interactive fiction best practices.
Team and partner leadership
- Line-manage and develop writers across experience levels through one-to-ones, performance reviews, coaching, and development conversations.
- Support recruitment and onboarding and foster a collaborative, inclusive, high-performing team.
- Partner with Product, Production, QA, Art, Design, and external IP partners; present ideas, documentation, and project updates.
- Balance creative ambition with gameplay, monetisation, and production requirements.
Required qualifications
- Extensive professional experience writing narrative content for games or interactive media.
- Experience leading writers or narrative teams on large-scale creative projects.
- Excellent editing and attention to detail; strong knowledge of branching narrative, player agency, and interactive storytelling.
- Experience with licensed IP or established brands.
- Strong planning, prioritisation, project management, deadline management, and stakeholder management.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication and a collaborative, positive, solutions-focused leadership approach.
Preferred skills
- Experience with mobile free-to-play games or live service products is preferred.
- Familiarity with narrative design tools and scripting pipelines is preferred.
- Experience using player data and insights for narrative decisions or collaborating with external licensors and commercial partners is preferred.
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