Senior Narrative Designer - R&D Shanghai

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot 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.

资深叙事策划 - 中国研发工作室 

作为游戏策划，您将设计、调整和优化玩家体验。您的分析能力、玩家洞察力和创造力有助于打造吸引玩家并给玩家带来惊喜的游戏内/外体验。您将与不同职能的团队合作，并使用可获得的各种工具来创建和迭代以玩家为中心的设计，呈现给世界各地数百万玩家。

作为一名在研发团队中的资深叙事策划，您将帮推动拳头的下一个重大项目。您将与其他策划、美术和程序同事合作，改进和迭代以玩家为中心的设计，旨在提供突破性的体验。我们仍然是一个小团队，因此这需要大量的实践工作来创建和调整系统、机制。希望您适应在一个不确定的环境中工作，在该环境中，目标和约束主要由团队自主驱动，变化始终都是流程的重要组成部分。 您将向项目的 Game Director 汇报。

职责描述

• 为原型阶段进行叙事设计，包括游戏内实现和创新验证
• 根据《英雄联盟》的世界观创造新的角色故事
• 寻找该类型中的创新叙事设计解决方案机会
• 定义叙事框架和质量标准
• 与团队合作创建原型并构建叙事工具
• 与IP团队密切合作，确保叙事与IP战略保持一致
• 协作、接收反馈并迭代，以获得最高质量的产品

资质要求

• 6年以上游戏行业专业文案策划经验
• 曾在至少一个游戏项目或叙事作品中，负责其核心叙事内容的设计和制作
• 深入理解互动叙事的运作方式，以及如何与游戏的其他模块有机结合
• 具备对《英雄联盟》英雄及故事的良好理解
• 擅长编写和改编叙事内容
• 具备游戏设计思维，能够将叙事设计与游戏玩法相结合
• 能流利使用中文（普通话）

理想资质

• 有担任叙事负责人的经验
• 具有游戏早期阶段和原型设计的经验，在延迟满足下工作，保持耐心并追求卓越
• 具备在跨职能团队中经历游戏开发各个阶段的工作经验
• 能够接受反馈并进行叙事迭代
• 能流利使用英语进行口头和书面交流

As a Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity help craft in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to create and iterate player-focused designs that will delight millions around the world.

As a Senior Narrative Designer in Research & Development working on an early stage product, you will help decipher one of Riot’s next big bets. You will partner with other designers, artists, and engineers to improve and iterate player-focused designs that aim at delivering a groundbreaking experience. We are still a small team, so this requires plenty of hands-on work creating, and tuning systems/mechanics. You are comfortable operating in an ambiguous environment where goals and constraints are mostly team driven and where change, big and small, is an essential part of the process. You will report to the Game Director of the project.

As a Rioter in China, you'll join a team of internationally and culturally diverse professionals that share our prioritization of player experience, rejection of convention and maniacal passion for gaming. 

To reinforce Riot’s collaborative culture in our China offices, we’ve decided to do away with the constraints of traditional hierarchical title structures that are more common in the region. Titles don’t really matter at any of Riot’s offices, but we chose to take this extra step in our China offices to foster a space where teamwork thrives. We believe that removing this constraint will promote individual autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and a focus on results. We promise you won’t need a title at Riot to make an impact.

Responsibilities:

• Narrative design for the prototype phase including in-game implementation and innovation validation
• Create new character stories based on the world settings of League of Legends
• Seek opportunities for innovative narrative design solutions within the genre
• Define narrative frameworks and quality standards
• Partner with the team to prototype and build narrative tools
• Work closely with the IP team to ensure that the narrative is aligned with the IP strategy
• Collaborate, receive feedback, and iterate towards the highest quality product

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional narrative design experience in game industry
• Have led significant portions of the narrative design and content production for at least one game title or shipped narrative product
• Deep understanding of how interactive narrative functions and how it intersects with the other parts of a game
• Good understanding of League of Legends champions and stories

• Good at writing and adapting narrative content
• Has a game design mindset to integrate narrative design and gameplay
• Fluent in Mandarin Chinese

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working in a lead narrative role
• Experience with early-stage games and prototyping, work under delayed gratification, be patient, and pursue excellence
• Experience working within a cross disciplinary team through all phases of game development
• Comfortable with receiving feedback and narrative iteration
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Don’t forget to include a resume and cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you take play seriously.

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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in gaming.