Advanced Designer, Narrative

Warner Bros. Discovery•Salt Lake City, UT

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Avalanche Software, a division of WB Games Inc., is seeking an Advanced Narrative Designer to join the team behind Hogwarts Legacy. The role is for a visionary storyteller who develops stories players can affect through their choices and helps create immersive narrative experiences. The position involves direct collaboration with design and narrative leadership, writers, artists, IP owners, producers, and peers across disciplines. The Advanced Narrative Designer crafts missions and stories, supports narrative and gameplay coherence, manages branching narrative content, and drives large or complex narrative features from initial design through polish and release. The designer translates creative direction and team feedback into clear mission specifications, documentation, and implementation plans, while helping prioritize content and keep milestones on track. The position is onsite at Avalanche Studio in Salt Lake City, Utah. Relocation assistance is provided.

Requirements

Previous experience in interactive storytelling, narrative design, and game writing.
A strong record of quality in writing and/or narrative-focused game design.
Experience working within an established franchise and authoring new experiences that remain authentic and tonally consistent.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to document narrative plans.
Contributed to shipped titles and participated in a full development cycle from concept through release.
Familiarity with standard game-development processes and workflows.
Deep literacy in games, film, television, and literature, with a love of the fantasy genre.

Nice To Haves

RPG experience.
Knowledge of the Wizarding World franchise.
Experience with Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint, and dialogue authoring tools such as Articy.

Responsibilities

Craft compelling missions and rich stories that build a satisfying player experience.
Collaborate with directors and IP owners to create authentic stories that engage fans, ignite the imagination, and connect with players emotionally.
Champion the project’s narrative goals 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 choice content.
Resolve issues, mediate, provide feedback, and iterate on mission designs based on development-team and franchise-representative direction.
Provide narrative support for story beats, game mechanics, character profiles and motivations, narrative features, player choices, and the player’s emotional journey.
Evaluate missions and advise mission implementors and artists on maximizing storytelling and narrative immersion through mechanics, choices, dialogue options, and environmental storytelling.
Own and drive production of 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 specifications, narrative documentation, and implementation plans.
Gather input from discipline leads and studio stakeholders, vet proposals, and align narrative content with broader project needs.
Work with production to prioritize narrative content and keep milestones on track.
Provide guidance and feedback to other narrative designers on mission design, documentation, and franchise alignment.