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Narrative Design Manager

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

Are you a high-engagement editorial or creative leader with a passion for fantasy and pop culture, comfortable with overseeing and driving many different projects and people at once?

Magic: The Gathering is looking for a Narrative Design Manager! This role combines a love for awesome fantasy storytelling with a passion for guiding and supporting creatives.

This role cultivates and manages a team of game/narrative designers who build the IP and creative content for Magic: The Gathering, as well as our external story pipeline.

What you'll do

Using your excellent organizational and leadership skills, this role ensures that Magic has an awesome, high-quality flow of narrative design and storytelling. Working closely with your partners, our principal creatives, you'd be:

• assigning projects and managing workloads;
• commissioning stories to external writers and managing their editing/review cycles;
• ensuring your teams' production schedules are on track;
• and, most importantly, developing our awesome staff of narrative designers — building the programs and processes vital to help them increase their skills and learn to pursue growing levels of responsibility!

What you'll bring:

• experience and passion for both game design processes and story development processes,
• a keen discernment for excellent storytelling and worldbuilding,
• excitement for encouraging, strengthening, and developing the next generation of Magic worldbuilders;
• the ability to clearly communicate goals and expectations; and
• a dedication to continuing to foster an environment of support and expectations of excellence.

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

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