Design Director
RemoteCanada
Job Summary
Define and execute the creative vision for a narrative-driven investigative storytelling game, ensuring alignment across narrative, gameplay, art, audio, and presentation. Lead the development of the game's narrative, characters, and environmental storytelling while mentoring the design team to foster a culture of quality and accountability. Collaborate with engineering, art, and production to establish workflows, drive implementation, and maintain consistency as the project evolves. Identify creative risks and production challenges early, partnering with discipline leads to balance ambition with scope and technical constraints. Contribute hands-on to writing, prototyping, and content development as needed to unblock the team and drive key features through milestones.
Required Qualifications
- At least 10 years of experience in game development
- At least 5 years in a creative leadership, narrative leadership, or senior design role
- Hands-on experience developing content in Unreal Engine 5
- Experience shipping at least one narrative-driven or creatively ambitious game with significant responsibility for story, gameplay, or overall creative direction
- Strong understanding of interactive storytelling, narrative pacing, player agency, and how gameplay and presentation work together to create compelling player experiences
- Proven ability to provide creative direction, review content, and maintain quality and consistency across a multidisciplinary team
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align design, narrative, engineering, art, audio, and production around a shared creative vision
- Comfortable contributing hands-on to writing, narrative implementation, game design, prototyping, or content development while balancing creative ambition with scope, schedule, and technical constraints
- Legally eligible to work in Canada
- Reside within Canada
Desired Qualifications
- Passion for crime fiction, investigative storytelling, and grounded, character-driven narrative games
- Appreciation for authentic research and the responsible adaptation of real-world subject matter into interactive storytelling
- Strong instincts for dramatic pacing, mystery, suspense, and player-driven discovery
- Experience working with dialogue systems, cinematic storytelling, performance capture, or branching narrative tools
- Enjoyment of collaborative creative development and helping teams refine ideas through iteration, playtesting, and feedback
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