[Hiring] Narrative and World Lead @Eleventh Hour Games

Role Description

As a Narrative and World Lead for Eleventh Hour Games, you will be the architect of the interconnected systems of story, quests, characters, and lore. This role is ideal for someone extremely creative and especially passionate for ARPGs. It requires strong autonomy and judgment, as well as strong written and verbal skills.

• Build and maintain the narrative of the world, including core lore covering eras, cultures, factions, geographies, and key world events.
• Design campaign-level world maps structuring zones, quest hubs, travel routes, pacing, and progression logic across the narrative campaign.
• Develop main arc and side quest flows with emotional pacing, player motivation, and world-context integration.
• Write comprehensive character profiles—arcs, relationship webbing, dialogue, quest hooks, and interactions.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including combat, level, and environment designers to align map structure with narrative beats and gameplay flow.
• Oversee narrative documentation, dialogue QC, style guidelines, and help shape branching/story systems.
• "Be the voice" for the player experience by ensuring the narrative aligns with the player dynamics and enhances player immersion.
• "Be receptive and progressive" with narrative elements based on player feedback, game testing, and live-service data to maintain and improve the world and journey.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in narrative design or quest design roles, specifically on ARPGs, open-world, or isometric RPGs.
• Professional experience in a role that includes strategic world-building and campaign mapping, specifically connecting narrative beats to geographical progression.
• Strong storytelling skills with a focus on characters, dialogue, emotional pacing, and player-driven motivations.
• Experience with quest structure, branching narratives, and system-level narrative implementation.
• Experience in a studio environment working on cross-team collaboration to integrate narrative into gameplay, world layout, and progression logic.
• Experience guiding qualitative workflow for teams and individual contributors.
• Familiarity with ARPGs, live-service pipelines, and multi-team collaboration.

Requirements

• Branching dialogue tools, in-engine experience, Deep ARPG knowledge.
• Experience working with data to make informed changes.
• Familiarity and understanding of industry trends and resources.

Benefits

• Reasonable Accommodation: KRAFTON Americas is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. The Company will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.
• EEOC statement: KRAFTON Americas provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.