Script Writing Jobs in Inkitt Germany

Inkitt calls application for full-time Lead Script Writer at the head office in Berlin. The Senior Content Writer will have to guide a team of writers producing weekly episode releases. The position writer will also combine his/her creative storytelling talents with leadership experience. The ideal appointee must have experience creating storyboards, adapting the story, keeping up with fast-paced deadlines, and working in a serial format.

Responsibilities 

The Lead Script Writer at Inkitt will do jobs like writing, editing, rewriting, supervising, etc. In particular, the position will have to perform the following tasks

• Writing, strategizing, and overseeing stories from conception through to final execution; editing, rewriting and providing constructive feedback on the output of a team of writers.
• Contributing to the growth of the writers, guiding them to reach high-performance standards that allow them to become Lead Writers themselves.
• Communicating as well as collaborating with bestselling fiction authors.
• Also, working closely with sound designers and FX specialists to make our reading experience 100% immersive.
• Adapting successful stories from Inkitt into the Galatea format, maximizing their commercial potential.
• Furthermore, pushing the boundaries of storytelling.

Requirements 

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Screenwriting, Creative Writing, English, or a related field of study.
• Knowledge & passion for serialized TV and book series as well as at least 3 years of experience writing for TV, film, video games, or a related field.
• Leadership and/or management experience
• Write/speak Native-level English and be able to create, manage, and help track schedules for a team of at least four writers.
• Oriented towards cutting-edge technology and want to be ahead of the industry curve
• Hands-on attitude, fast-paced, reliable, and positive.
• Creative and business mindset as well as fantastic organizational and communication skills.
• Thrive in an open-floor brainstorm as well as in the execution of a laid-out plan
• Keen sense of empathy for the entertainment audience and can cater your empathy depending on the demographics of that audience.
• Experience of working in a writer’s room and/or collaborated with other writers.
• Furthermore, candidates must be able to consistently improve the output of a team of writers through editing, rewriting, and constructive feedback.

Inkitt

Inkitt is a team of 60 hard-working, extremely talented, and highly dedicated entrepreneurs and artists who have raised $21m from Investors of Amazon, Google, and Uber. Moreover, the Inkitt writers include Hollywood screenwriters, Off-Broadway playwrights, and published novelists. Graduates from esteemed writing programs at Yale, Columbia University, NYU, Northwestern University, USC, and UCLA. Recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant, the Jack Nicholson Prize in Screenwriting, First Prize in the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation Playwriting Competition, and other top industry honors.