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About the Role
The Audio Description Writer is responsible for authoring high-quality English Audio Description (AD) scripts across various content types, enabling audiences who are blind or partially sighted to fully understand visual storytelling elements. This role involves working within established guidelines and collaborating with editors and senior writers.
Responsibilities
- Write English Audio Description scripts for scripted episodic, unscripted/factual, feature-length, and ad hoc content.
- Describe essential visual information clearly, accurately, and representatively to support narrative comprehension and intent.
- Apply established Audio Description guidelines, accessibility standards, and formatting rules consistently.
- Ensure scripts meet quality expectations for grammar, clarity, tone, pacing, and formatting.
- Revise scripts based on editorial feedback to reach final delivery quality.
- Contribute to initial or first-pass Audio Description drafts for complex or feature-length titles under senior guidance.
- Manage assigned workload and meet delivery deadlines using internal tracking systems.
- Handle sensitive, confidential, and pre-release materials securely and appropriately.
- Participate in testing tools, templates, and workflow enhancements.
- Provide feedback on processes and usability from an execution perspective.
- Develop Audio Description skills through training, peer review, and mentorship.
- Participate in team meetings and content reviews.
- Coordinate with editors and managers on priorities and schedules.
- Support internal documentation, quality checks, or reporting as required.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in Audio Description, accessibility writing, captioning/subtitling with accessibility exposure, or related media writing fields.
- Experience delivering final or near-final accessibility or scripted media deliverables.
- Excellent written English skills, including grammar, tone, and clarity.
- Strong attention to detail and editorial accuracy.
- Ability to follow detailed style guidelines and accessibility specifications.
- Ability to manage priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced production environment.
- Ability to learn and use relevant tools, systems, and workflows.
Skills
- Audio Description
- Accessibility writing
- Captioning/Subtitling
- Media writing
- Written English
- Grammar
- Clarity
- Tone
- Pacing
- Formatting
- Editorial accuracy
- Style guidelines
- Accessibility specifications
- Time management
- Deadline management
- Tool usage
- System usage
- Workflow management
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Accreditation from accessibility training or university (preferred)
Benefits
- Thoughtfully curated benefits
About the Company
- Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is a global media and entertainment company with a vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands.
- WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow.
Equal Opportunity
- Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
- Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
- If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.