Published: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:51:00 GMT
Position: AI Narrative Designer
Company Overview:
Crazy Maple Studio is a rapidly growing company based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, specializing in mobile gaming, reading, and streaming. Our global team is the driving force behind our success and innovation in various markets.
We are proud to offer a diverse range of products, including our flagship platform ReelShort, the #1 vertical streaming app in the U.S. with over 5 million daily active users. Our other standout products include Chapters, where users can shape immersive stories in genres such as drama, fantasy, and romance, and My Fiction, a platform for consuming and creating serialized romance.
We are honored to have been recognized as one of the Global Most Loved Workplaces for 2025, a testament to our commitment to fostering a culture of innovation, creativity, and prioritizing our employees.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a talented and creative Narrative Content Designer to join our team and help us develop emotionally engaging AI characters for our interactive storytelling products. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our product and AI teams to design, structure, and refine character content for our generative AI systems. This is a fully remote position, open to candidates located in the United States.
Responsibilities:
– Design captivating characters for interactive experiences that appeal to paid content markets
– Ensure each character aligns with the platform’s tone, resonates with users, and encourages long-term engagement
– Adapt existing intellectual properties into interactive character formats
– Analyze character content from interactive novels, games, or other IPs and restructure it for AI-driven interactive storytelling
– Collaborate with product and AI teams to understand character frameworks and prompt logic
– Support character tuning, content formatting, and the development of scalable narrative standards
Requirements:
– Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in creative writing, screenwriting, game design, or a related field
– 2+ years of experience in content creation, narrative design, or character-driven writing
– Familiarity with modular/structured writing approaches and a willingness to adapt writing for generative AI logic
– Passion for interactive fiction, character simulation, or dialogue-heavy games
– Strong writing skills with a focus on character development
– Comfortable working in a collaborative, cross-functional team
– Proficient in spoken Mandarin Chinese for internal meetings and team collaboration
– Able to participate in occasional cross-time zone meetings with teams from different regions
Bonus Points:
– Experience with AI chat platforms such as Character.AI, Replika, or content on Chapters/Episode
– Knowledge of prompt engineering or experience with LLMs, AI dialogue tuning, or chatbot content optimization
Benefits:
– Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
– Equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
About the Company:
We are a rapidly growing start-up company based in the Bay Area, specializing in mobile gaming, reading, and streaming. Our products cater to a wide range of interests, including drama, fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and gaming. With hundreds of titles across diverse genres, our storytelling platforms, CHAPTERS: INTERACTIVE STORIES and KISS: READ AND WRITE ROMANCE, offer an exciting and interactive experience for users to both consume and create their own worlds and characters. Our latest release, REELSHORT, is a cutting-edge HD streaming platform that revolutionizes the way viewers watch bite-sized content, with a variety of shows full of twists and turns already available, and more to come. Apply link