Riot Games · 1 day ago
Narrative Director - Unpublished R&D Product
Los Angeles, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
13+ years expRiot Games is a company focused on creating player-first experiences, and they are seeking a Narrative Director to shape the conceptual backbone of an unpublished R&D product. The role involves building cohesive narrative systems, guiding a team of narrative designers, and ensuring narrative integrity throughout the game development process.
ComputerDeveloper PlatformPC GamesVideo Games
Responsibilities
Build the core narrative framework for the game
Ensure all creative decisions uphold narrative integrity, internal logic, and authenticity
Collaborate with Riot IP teams to ensure alignment
Partner with the Creative Director to break high-level creative pillars into usable, systemic narrative components
Define frameworks that narrative designers and writers use to create content
Manage and mentor narrative designers and writers, fostering a shared language of systems-oriented narrative craft
Provide constraints, pillars, and frameworks that elevate the team’s moment-to-moment content
Maintain coherence and quality across narrative
Contribute writing and documentation where needed, but your primary contribution is direction and architecture, not content volume
Qualification
Required
13+ years in narrative design, worldbuilding, creative direction, systems design, or equivalent roles in the gaming industry
8+ years managing narrative creatives or cross-disciplinary teams
Leadership experience shipping a AAA or major live game in a narrative, creative, or design capacity
Ability to evaluate and ensure quality across writing, VO, worldbuilding, and systemic narrative surfaces, even without personally writing all of them
Capable of operating with minimal support and driving clarity across complex creative spaces
Portfolio or samples demonstrating worldbuilding, narrative system design, thematic architecture, or conceptual frameworks
Preferred
Professional experience working within established IP and crafting new IP systems
Experience collaborating with cross-disciplinary leads in design, IP, and art to create unified world experiences
Benefits
Open paid time off policy
Flexible work schedules
Medical, dental, and life insurance
Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
401k with company match
Company
Riot Games
Riot Games is a global company that develops online games.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$21M2018-12-31Series Unknown· $6M
2016-11-14Convertible Note
2011-02-01Acquired
Leadership Team
A. Dylan Jadeja
Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Beck
Co-chairman, Co-founder
Recent News
2026-01-07
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