AI Narrative Designer

Company Overview

Crazy Maple Studio is a fast-growing company based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, focusing on mobile gaming, reading, and streaming. We are proud to have a global team that drives our innovation and success across diverse markets.

Our flagship platform, ReelShort, is the #1 vertical streaming app in the U.S., with over 5 million DAU, delivering bite-sized episodic content that keeps viewers hooked. Other standout products include Chapters, where users shape immersive stories across drama, fantasy, and romance, and My Fiction, a platform for consuming and creating serialized romance.

We’re proud to be recognized as one of the Global Most Loved Workplaces 2025, reflecting our commitment to innovation, creativity, and an employee-first culture.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Narrative Content Designer to help us build emotionally engaging AI characters for interactive storytelling products. You will work closely with the product and AI teams to design, structure, and refine character content for generative AI systems. This is a fully remote position, open to candidates located in the US.

Responsibilities

• Design Engaging Characters for Interactive Experiences Create emotionally compelling characters tailored for paid content markets. Ensure each character fits the platform’s tone, resonates with users, and supports long-term engagement.
• Adapt Existing IPs into Interactive Character Formats Analyze character content from interactive novels, games, or other IPs. Restructure them into formats suitable for AI-driven interactive storytelling.
• Collaborate with Product and AI Teams Work closely with product and technical 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.
• Passionate about interactive fiction, character simulation, or dialogue-heavy games 
• Strong skills in writing character-driven content.
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, cross-functional team.
• Comfortable communicating in spoken Mandarin Chinese for internal meetings and team collaboration.
• Able to participate in occasional cross–time zone meetings, working with teams across regions.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with AI chat platforms like Character.AI, Replika, or content on Chapters/Episode.
• Prompt engineering or experience with LLMs, AI dialogue tuning, or chatbot content optimization.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

Crazy Maple Studio, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to 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.

We are a growing mobile gaming, reading & streaming based start-up company located in the Bay Area. Whether you're an avid consumer of drama, fantasy, sci-fi, romance, or even a gamer, you’ll love making choices in CHAPTERS: INTERACTIVE STORIES! With hundreds of titles across diverse genres, storytelling has never been more exciting on KISS: READ AND WRITE ROMANCE, where users can both consume AND create their own worlds and characters! Our latest release, REELSHORT, is the next generation of HD streaming that changes the way you watch bite sized content, with dozens of shows full of twists and turns already available, and even more coming soon!