Senior Narrative Designer: Immersive, Player-Driven Stories

WB Games / Avalanche; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalanche Software, a WB Games studio in Salt Lake City, seeks an Advanced Narrative Designer to join the team behind Hogwarts Legacy. You will craft missions and player-driven narratives, collaborating with writers, designers, and IP owners to ensure authentic stories that resonate with fans.

The role requires a deep understanding of the Wizarding World and comfort with Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint, and Articy for dialogue design and narrative features.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in interactive storytelling, narrative design, and game writing, RPG experience preferred.
• A strong record of quality in writing and/or narrative focused game design.
• Experience working within an established franchise, authoring exciting new experiences that still feel authentic and tonally consistent.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills including documentation of narrative plans.
• Contributed to shipped titles and participated in a full dev cycle from concept through release.
• Familiarity with standard game-development processes and workflows.
• Possess a deep literacy in games, film, television, and literature with a love of the fantasy genre.
• Knowledge of the Wizarding World franchise is a definite plus.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint, and dialogue authoring tools such as Articy considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Craft compelling missions and rich stories that build a satisfying player experience.
• Collaborate with directors and IP owners to ensure authentic stories that tickle fans, ignite the imagination, and connect with players on an emotional level.
• Champion the narrative goals of the project on a day to day basis
• Promote and drive narrative, thematic, and mechanical coherence across story and gameplay.
• Visualize, track, manage, and communicate the branching structure of narrative content in the game.
• Resolve issues, mediate, provide feedback, and iterate on mission designs based on direction from the development team and franchise representatives.
• Provide narrative support for design elements, such as story beat creation, game mechanics delivery, character profiles, character motivations, narrative feature design, player choices, and the player emotional journey as delivered through narrative during game development.
• Evaluate missions and provide feedback to mission implementors and artists for how to maximize storytelling and narrative immersion through game mechanics, player choices, dialog options, and environmental storytelling.
• Own and drive production on large or complex narrative features or content arcs from initial design through polish and ship.
• Translate creative direction, team feedback, and cross-discipline conversations into clear mission specs, narrative documentation, and implementation plans.
• Work with discipline leads and stakeholders across the studio to gather input, vet proposals, and align narrative content with the broader needs of the project.
• Work with production to prioritize narrative content and keep milestones on track.
• Provide clear guidance and feedback to other narrative designers on mission design, documentation, and franchise alignment.

Skills

interactive storytelling

narrative design

game writing

RPG experience

writing quality

collaboration

documentation

shipped titles

dev cycle experience

workflow familiarity

Wizarding World knowledge

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Blueprint

Articy

Job description

Avalanche Software, a WB Games studio in Salt Lake City, seeks an Advanced Narrative Designer to join the team behind Hogwarts Legacy. You will craft missions and player-driven narratives, collaborating with writers, designers, and IP owners to ensure authentic stories that resonate with fans.

The role requires a deep understanding of the Wizarding World and comfort with Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint, and Articy for dialogue design and narrative features.