About the role
Company Overview
Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio best known for the hit indie horror game Poppy Playtime. The franchise has generated more than 100 billion YouTube views since its launch 4 years ago.
The Role
A Senior Writer for the rapid prototyping Skunk Works team. Responsibilities include investing in and assisting the development of pre-existing concepts that require refinement, building, and proving out. The role involves communicating with and setting expectations with company and concept stakeholders, owning and explaining narrative structures, and clarifying core values, themes, tone, and mood of world prototypes—including characters, dialogue, and narrative arcs that can sustain episodic content.
Responsibilities
- Play a critical role in reviewing, clarifying and refining game concepts from a backlog.
- Interpret concepts with authors, manifesting narrative arcs for each concept that could sustain episodic content.
- Using the premise of any given concept, define plot, theme, tone, mood and create characters and settings to inform prototype efforts.
- Storyboard story beats to inform development of prototypes.
- Advise and critique co-dev teams’ prototype work where necessary.
- Drive the organization and conducting of recording sessions for story-based audio.
Requirements
- 10+ years writing for games.
- Storyboarding experience in games, TV, and/or movies.
- Strong understanding and passion for soft/gray in-world storytelling.
- Solid communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment.
- Service-based attitude; commitment to bringing worlds and characters to life, regardless of origin.
- MUST HAVE HORROR EXPERIENCE.
Nice to Have
- Experience collaborating with design and art on world building implementation.
- Experience directing voice actors.
- Passion for the horror genre and atmospheric storytelling.
- Storyboarding experience.
Salary Range
Final compensation is determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, and work location.
- San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Boston, MA; & DC Metropolitan Areas: $104,000–$136,000 USD annually.
- Austin, TX; Denver, CO; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; & Miami, FL Metropolitan Areas: $91,000–$118,750 USD annually.
- All Other U.S. Locations: $77,000–$101,000 USD annually.
Benefits
Eligible U.S.-based full-time employees receive:
- Profit sharing.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) matching.
- FSA/HSA.
- Paid time off.
- Sick time.
- Holidays.
- Parental leave.
Equal Opportunity Employment
Mob Entertainment is an equal opportunity workplace and complies with all federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. The company provides equal opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, military service, or any other protected class. Mob Entertainment considers all qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with Fair Chance laws.