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Associate Lore Historian, Blizzard Entertainment, (Irvine, CA)

Description

Blizzard Entertainment’s Creative Development team is seeking an Associate Historian to support the growing needs of Diablo and Overwatch within our award-winning lore department. Are you an exceptional note-taker? Do you thrive in a high-stakes and fluid work environment that requires creative problem-solving, technical proficiency, and peerless attention to detail? Are you highly organized, with superior research and reference creation skills? Are you a maestro at orchestrating digital assets and design documentation? If so, then our team needs you!

Responsibilities

  • Focuses on researching and archiving all lore references for the Diablo and Overwatch franchises.
  • Authority in verifying and approving lore content for the online archive.
  • Supports the Creative Development teams by performing in-depth lore research and answering franchise questions.
  • Able to tackle other duties as the need arises.

Requirements

  • Maintain working knowledge of the Diablo and Overwatch franchises.
  • Comfortable optimally presenting intricate narrative information to a wide range of audiences and experience levels.
  • Possess practical technical writing experience (e.g., transcript creation, character summaries, process documentation).
  • Comfortable crafting visual lore references and narrative content summaries.
  • Proficient in using Adobe Creative Cloud, Atlassian, and Office 365 software products.

Pluses

  • Versed in all Diablo and Overwatch expanded universe offerings (i.e., animation, comics, manga, novels, web, etc.).
  • Experience working with Atlassian Confluence.
  • Passion for storytelling and collaborative story development.

How to Apply

  • Cover Letter
  • Resume (PDF of your resume please!)

Submit materials as well as find more information here: https://gamejobs.co/Associate-Lore-Historian-TEMP-at-Blizzard-Entertainment