Senior Narrative Designer – Unpublished R&D Product

Shanghai, CN
Posted 2 months ago

About this role

[REDACTED] was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, [REDACTED] released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

As a Narrative Designer, you are the champion of all things story and delivering key narrative elements to players. You will bring your passion for narrative and editorial to internal and external teams ensuring that dialogue, script, and character bios are consistent, compelling, and exciting when delivered to players.

Responsibilities

  • Define how narrative should be delivered to players across gameplay and game systems
  • Translate story goals, tone, and thematic direction into strong player-facing presentation
  • Build delivery strategies for different types of narrative content
  • Prototype and validate presentation ideas to test readability, emotional clarity, and production viability
  • Partner cross-functionally to plan and support the implementation of narrative content in-game
  • Help identify production needs, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs for narrative presentation work
  • Review integrated content in-game and improve pacing, clarity, immersion, and overall player experience
  • Capture learnings and help evolve reusable approaches for narrative delivery

Required Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional experience in narrative design, game design, implementation design, or a related discipline
  • Deep understanding of interactive narrative and how it connects to gameplay and systems
  • Experience prototyping and validating narrative or player-facing design ideas in-game
  • Strong game design instincts and comfort shaping narrative through interactive experiences
  • Experience collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams across multiple stages of development
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, evolving development environments
  • Good understanding of [REDACTED]'s products

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a lead or highly ownership-driven narrative presentation, implementation, or systems-facing narrative role
  • Experience working with tools or runtime narrative delivery
  • Strong instincts for scalable narrative delivery under production constraints
  • Fluency in written and spoken English

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Recommended Skills for this Position

Storytelling
Game UX
Interaction Design
Prototyping
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Emotional Design
Systems Thinking
User-Centered Design

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