The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise started back in 1991 on the SEGA Mega Drive and of course continues to this day with Sonic’s largest 3D adventure, Sonic Frontiers, available at retail and on the Nintendo Switch eShop, today. SEGA is now looking for a Sonic Lore Master to keep track of the spiky blue hedgehog and his friends, enemies and associates exploits over the years. It is not just the games that you need to be knowledgeable about as you have got the various Sonic the Hedgehog animated shows, the comics, the films, etc. If you think you are the person for the job then can apply for the position here. Before applying here is what you need to know!
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Lore and Creative Strategy, the Sonic Team is seeking an Associate Manager, Lore to support the growing needs of our lore team. With both project management and creative duties, you will be immersed in the organizing and shaping of Sonic lore, canon, characters, and universes, helping to bring consistency, connectivity, and creativity to all things Sonic across various forms of media including games, animation, comics, and more. Codifying the current status while planning for the future, you will help the lore team stay organized, prioritized, and galvanized, all while facilitating transparency and communication across the organization.
This role will interface closely with teams around the world. We strive to foster a supportive, thoughtful, innovative, flexible, collaborative, and most importantly, respectful work environment, and are looking for team members that share these same values.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Primary facilitator for our lore team: helps to set priorities, organizes and leads meetings, takes notes, and reports results.
- Assists with the creative process, including brainstorming, script writing, and providing feedback.
- Lore team administration, including navigation of legal and finance processes
- Reviews story content for narrative accuracy and consistency.
- Stakeholder in verifying and approving lore documentation
- Supports other Sonic teams, including game development, marketing, licensing, and animation, through proactive communication, alignment, and intake of lore inquiries.
- Monitors and reports on evolution of entertainment and development of IP.
- Able to take on other duties as required.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Strong project management skills with high-level attention to detail
- Experience leading a team of creatives, preferably in a similar capacity to this role
- Comfortable communicating/presenting narrative information to a wide range of audiences and experience levels
- Skilled collaborator and seeker of diverse opinions
- Strong written communication skills
- Comfortable creating visual lore references and narrative content summaries
- Proficient in using Adobe Creative Cloud and Office 365 software products
Preferred Skills:
- Extremely well-versed in all things Sonic (lore, characters, games, animations, comics, movies, etc.)
- Passion for collaboration and evolving the creative process
- Passion for all types of media and entertainment
- Animation production management experience
I’ll take it!
Although I’m kind of scared as to where Iizuka draws the line in terms of lore and their brand, and who they’ll actually hire.
I personally want to retcon quite a few things that do not hold up these days.
It’s also bizarre to see a job listing like this on this site of all places.
In all honesty, I’m scared that the wrong person will get the job that many of us want, and Iizuka will just ignore the ideas of everyone else (the rest of the fanbase) after they’re hired.
Sega should have done this a long time ago.
I understand SEGA should have done this in one of their games a longtime ago, but now it looks like it is the right time for them to do this since they were late on doing so and their track record is improving. Let’s see how well they do with Sonic Frontiers once we see the sale records.
are you kidding?
sales “record” or sales data?.
it was overhyped, it’ll sell well enough.
What is your point?
Here’s my point .
Btw, nice profile pic.
Who’s that sonic character?
Reminds me of an old sonic cartoon.
Uh thanks. But, my profile is not related to this article.
Sounds like a good idea. I can think of other franchises that could use a lore master.
Like Fire Emblem, since Intelligent Systems seems to forget its lore half the time.
I mean Ian Flynn is already working for them as a writer; shouldn’t he already get that job?
They have one…. His name is Ian Flynn?
Not really, Flynn occasionally tells fans on the Bumblekast what the high-ups tells him about the “rules” of the lore, among other similiar topics, but he doesn’t have the official role of a loremaster.
I think its possible Flynn is interested in the role of loremaster, but he can just as well turn the offer down due to all the various responsibilities listed above, considering how he already have his hands full with not only the IDW comics but also was busy enough with Frontiers’ script writing (which can be just as important a role).
I enjoyed reading through this and picking up a few practical ideas. This online game highlights challenge levels and pattern recognition in a very easy-to-understand way.