Axon - VR/AR Narrative Designer

This is your shot to make a difference in the world, working on technology for reforming Public Safety and Social Justice - building narratives, characters and bringing them to life for use in Axon’s Simulator training.

If you love writing and have a passion for innovative technology, read more below or click here to apply.

As part of Axon’s VR & AR team, you’ll be a key player driving new content ideas and working with VR and AR technologies to conceive, test and build immersive user experiences that will define the future of augmented and virtual reality use in Public Safety applications. We see leveraging the technology for training applications to be the first stop on our journey.

You will join an interdisciplinary team tackling the biggest challenges in public safety training head-on, including immersive VR-based empathy development training and de-escalation training to help officers engage with the communities they serve with greater awareness and safety.

As a narrative designer for Axon’s Virtual and Augmented Reality program, you will be responsible for authoring written pieces of content that capture intended learning outcomes through impactful stories told in dynamic virtual spaces.

We seek to accomplish this while abiding to the following guiding principles:

• Build AR and VR Solutions for Social Good: With our mission to Protect Life, we develop AR & VR solutions that benefit both law enforcement and the community, while addressing key issues in society.

• Empower Agencies with Data: Deliver ongoing data and analysis that provide agencies with key insights that enable them to make decisions that result in building better, more efficient, and positive programs.

• Develop an Active and Diverse Virtual Platform: Leverage the latest in AR & VR technologies to create a robust portfolio of solutions and the highest-quality content, that enable users to be more effective in their roles and manage the challenges of 21st century public safety.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of the entire narrative design development including all documentation that guides the creation of content, leading the creative direction of engaging stories, and creating outlined proposals of situations that can be compellingly represented and experienced in the game.

• Participate constructively in production and content-related meetings with experts to design and share ideas for new scenarios, character personas, and virtual environments, highlighting specific details for the learner.

• Use your creative talents to write impactful and sophisticated stories, delivering fully baked scripts that can be produced into virtual reality trainings.

• Manage updates to all new script versions, making changes in accordance with strict deadlines, owning the process from ideation to final delivery.

• Ensure all VR content achieves the mentality of “Protect Life” with expert-backed Learning Outcomes.

• Keep content cycle on track by ideating quickly, documenting key information, and addressing feedback thoroughly

• Develop templates, workflows and processes to increase time efficiencies

• Own the collection of data and prepare briefs on topic areas using trusted resources to investigate groups, trends, and approaches

• Maintain all aspects of the narrative design process and organize meetings with Stakeholders for topic discussion.

• Be a strategic thought partner by improving writing workflows, script methodologies, and processes
  

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience working in a Writer and/or Narrative Designer (or similar) role.

• Experience working with voiceover directors and talent during VO recordings.

• Practical and philosophical knowledge about dramatic storytelling, with demonstrated skills and work in screenplay or teleplay format.

• Strong research capabilities and exceptional proofreading skills, as well as excellent verbal and written communications skills.

• Must be able to effectively pitch ideas and quickly storyboard for review.

• Experience with creative tools like Adobe, Unity, Quill, Twine or other interactive storytelling software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in game development or related fields.

• Experience working in or with Public Safety, most notably law enforcement