Community News Writer
Start: ASAP
Length: 12 months, likely to extend
Location: Leicester (ideally 2 days onsite, can be remote if necessary)
Rate: £200PD - £225PD PAYE (eq to £230-260 via Umbrella, or £47-54k perm)
Engagement: PAYE via Trust in Soda
This is a brilliant opportunity to join an amazing video game studio owned by one of the biggest tech companies in the world as a Content / Community News Writer!
The Community News Writer will focus on writing a high volume of short-form stories that showcase the broader game experience by sourcing interesting stories from the community and beyond. This content will supplement existing news stories around key content updates and live events. Working closely with the Senior Community Manager, Editorial Lead and Creator Engagement team, this role will index heavily on spotlighting and uplifting stories from around our player base, as well as bolstering the volume of content we publish around our extended universe and franchise-based endeavours.
This role will also own the schedule and distribution of these stories, using appropriate tools and partners to deliver and amplify these articles.
Key content types include interesting and memorable stories covering:
Celebrate game players coming together outside the game by covering news from our Affiliate partners, fan-sites and fan-run events. Also cover ongoing hot topics in the community and its discursive spaces (forums, Discord, Reddit).
Showcase player and community creativity, sharing the best fan-art, fan fiction, music, memes and clips that are produced by our players.
Provide coverage of the creator ecosystem around the game, sharing memorable stream highlights, clips or videos that showcase the game in the right way and inspire others to creatively use the game's sandbox.
Find inspiring and memorable player stories from within the community, covering everything from interesting and heart-warming encounters in the game, moments of skill and mastery or human interest stories that showcase the human side of the game.
Partner with the Brand and Licensing team to cover relevant product launches and partnerships across our expanded universe including merchandise, publishing, music releases and so forth.
We are seeking an experienced and capable games journalist who has several years of experience sourcing, researching, and writing news stories around video games and their wider communities.
Key skills include:
Being able to source and research interesting news stories, both in partnership with other parts of the team (community, creator engagement, brand and licensing) and under your own initiative. This role requires a high-level of proactiveness, going out into the community to find stories that showcase everything that's good about the game.
Excellent writing skills, being able to bring stories to life in engaging ways that connect with players and other writers. Being able to produce a high-volume of fantastic new copy is a given.
Strong communication skills, able to engage across the team and studio, creators and members of the game community.
Hard working, can-do attitude and a willingness to jump in and get things done.
Strong awareness and operational knowhow of key gaming-focused discursive channels, such as Discord and Reddit.
Candidate Requirements
Must haves: outstanding editorial capabilities, proactivity (will be working in a big team, so need to be self-started and motivated to go out and hunt for the best stories)
Community, journalistic or editorial capacity. Skills evidence: portfolio
Must have skills: React (they use web technologies, stronger from a programming point of view than web point of view) would be helpful, but not just a React developer, as team is looking for independent pre-thinkers.
Demonstrate examples of being autonomous, being able to dive into a space that isn't well defined, any good examples of independence would be a plus. Direction of building libraries.