Advanced Designer, Narrative

Avalanche Software, a division of WB Games Inc., is seeking an Advanced Narrative Designer to join the team that created Hogwarts Legacy. The role centres on crafting missions and branching narrative content that gives players meaningful agency over the story, and on championing narrative, thematic and mechanical coherence across story and gameplay. The designer works in direct collaboration with design and narrative leadership, writers, artists, IP owners, producers and peers across every discipline.

• Craft compelling missions and rich stories that build a satisfying player experience.
• Collaborate with directors and IP owners to ensure authentic stories that 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.
• Visualise, track, manage and communicate the branching structure of narrative choice 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.
• Evaluate missions and provide feedback to mission implementors and artists on maximising storytelling and narrative immersion through game mechanics, player choices, dialogue 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, stakeholders and production to gather input, vet proposals, align narrative content with the broader needs of the project and prioritise content to keep milestones on track.
• Provide clear guidance and feedback to other narrative designers on mission design, documentation and franchise alignment.

• 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, 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 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.
• Creative, self-motivated problem solver who enjoys collaborating with writers and other designers to create immersive narrative experiences.

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

• Hybrid position with onsite days weekly at the Avalanche studio in Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Relocation is provided for candidates living out of the area.