Destiny Publishing Copywriter, Bungie
Contract
$74-90k
Video game studio
Job no longer available
Video game studio
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$74-90k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create hopeful worlds that inspire passionate player communities and lifelong friendships.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record of creating exceptional marketing copy, as well as short and long form written content at high velocity, while maintaining the highest of standards for attention to detail and tone
- Excellent and concise communicator in verbal and written forms, with the ability to quickly align on goals with key stakeholders and help enable consensus in areas of conflict or competing messaging priorities
- Comfort working in a collaborative writing environment where drafts are constantly in flux and editorial control is largely democratized
- Effective and encouraging editor with excellent grasp of written standards and grammar
- The ability to quickly distill complex concepts into understandable communication
- Experience supporting a live service
Desirable
- Familiarity with the Destiny franchise and its online player communities
- Prior experience working at a video game publisher or developer
- The confidence to ask for clarification even when everyone else appears to already understand a phrase, draft, or concept
- An almost pedantic approach to language with a strong bias for clear and inclusive messaging even when it means becoming the enemy of fun
- Willingness to adapt to evolving responsibilities
- Experience with The Chicago Manual of Style
- An ardent aversion to assumptions
- Curiosity
What the job involves
- Draft, review, and edit product-focused messaging and FAQs, including content for millions of customers via Bungie.net, BungieStore.com, CRM campaigns, the Destiny 2 game client, first party platforms, and various social media accounts
- Support brand, community, and development teams in delivering repeated projects with challenging deadlines and large groups of authors and stakeholders
- Serve as a communications subject-matter expert for all of Bungie as well as an intermediary between publishing and development with a focus on creating cohesive product-accurate language
- Provide tactful feedback to authors and stakeholders with the goal of strengthening messaging while building trusted relationships inside and outside of Bungie
- Conduct interviews with internal and external subjects in service of creating bespoke articles for Bungie.net and various partners
- Create resources for media training sessions that prepare employees for interview opportunities
Our take
As one of the leading video game companies in the US, Bungie’s former titles have included bestselling game franchises such as Halo and Destiny, marking it as a next-gen studio that is keeping its finger on the next-gen games console pulse.
Bungie scaled up in the early noughties thanks to an acquisition by Microsoft, leading to a period where Bungie made games for a variety of consoles. In 2022, it was bought by Sony for $3.6 billion, though it claims that it will still work across different platforms despite its owner’s lean towards PlayStation.
Indeed, Sony claims to have bought Bungie for its help in entering the live service games market. In return, Bungie will benefit by scaling up its team for new game and DLC releases. This is a promising direction, although it is worth noting that the underperformance of Destiny 2 has cast a few worries on the nature of Bungie's independent future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2018
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Contract and International FTE employees receive competitive benefits through their relevant contracting agency
- 20 days of accrued time-off in the form of PTO and sabbatical days, depending on the level of the position
- 10 paid Floating Days annually, prorated in the first year of employment based on start date
- 10 paid Bungie-observed holidays annually
- One hour of Paid Sick Time (PST) for every 30 hours worked
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Pete Parsons
(CEO & Chairman)Currently Board member for Boys and Girls Clubs of Bellevue. Previously Co-Founder and Inventor of Meteor Solutions, and an Executive Producer at Microsoft.
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