Tencent Games has developed and operated over 140 games. We provide cross-platform interactive entertainment experience for more than 800 million users in over 200 countries and regions around the world. Honor of Kings, PUBG MOBILE, and League of Legends, are some of our most popular titles around the world.
Meanwhile, we actively promote the development of esports industry, work with global partners to build an open, collaborative and symbiotic industrial ecology, and create high-quality digital life experiences for players.About the Hiring TeamGame Research Center(GRC) is a department focusing on game industry study, game analysis, game design research, data analysis and game development supporting. We’re one of the world’s leading research facility in game industry, building a global knowledge tank to help our teams make better decisions. We’re looking for innovative and passionate team members who love all kinds of games and have insight about the challenging global market.What the Role Entails
Responsibilities:
1. Market Research & Narrative Trend Insights
- Continuously track global narrative design trends, including branching narratives, immersive storytelling, and narrative systems.
- Analyze top global narrative works (across GaaS, console, PC, and mobile) and extract replicable creative frameworks.
- Produce strategic narrative insights, market structure analyses, and player preference reports for senior management and project teams.
2. Narrative System Design & Project Enablement
- Serve as the core narrative expert, providing guidance on story structure, character frameworks, worldbuilding, and narrative style for key projects.
- Review prototypes, key milestones, and narrative versions, delivering actionable narrative optimization recommendations.
- Support teams in building systematic narrative toolchains (narrative pacing, chapter planning, dialogue systems, branching structures, etc.).
- Guide teams in improving narrative consistency, character depth, and emotional pacing within gameplay.
3. Methodology Development & Capability Building
- Develop narrative evaluation frameworks, including narrative experience assessment standards, pacing models, character strategies, and worldbuilding logic systems.
- Consolidate best practices from successful projects into internal playbooks, toolkits, and case libraries.
- Enhance company-wide narrative capabilities through trainings, workshops, and public lectures.
4. Cross-Team Collaboration & Strategic Support
- Collaborate closely with project teams, producers, marketing, and user research to ensure narrative design aligns with overall product strategy.
- Provide opportunity assessment and investment recommendations for narrative-driven genres to strategy teams.
- Support key project decision points by offering narrative perspectives that help build team alignment.
1. Experience Background
- 8+ years of experience in game narrative design.
- Served as a core narrative designer or Lead Narrative Designer on successful or highly reputable narrative projects.
- Candidates with award-winning narrative works, industry award nominations, or teaching experience in universities/industry platforms are preferred.
- Familiar with narrative structures across RPG, action, adventure, and GaaS genres.
2. Professional Skills
- Capable of independently building worldviews, character systems, plot structures, and narrative pacing.
- Understands narrative–system integration and can create effective links between gameplay and narrative.
- Able to assess narrative experience quality and break down the core logic of successful works.
- Familiar with cross-cultural narrative expression and localization requirements.
3. General Skills
- Strong communication abilities; able to clearly articulate narrative strategies and design intent to diverse stakeholders.
- Strong logical reasoning and structured thinking.
- Cross-cultural collaboration experience is a plus.
4. Language & Location
- Strong business-level English proficiency is essential.
- Open to being based overseas or maintaining long-term collaboration with overseas projects (NL/UK).
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Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of Internet users.
Our communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks.
Our high performance advertising platform helps brands and marketers reach out to hundreds of millions of consumers in China.
Our financial technology and business services support our partners' business growth and assist their digital upgrade.
We invest heavily in talent and technological innovation, actively participating in the development of the Internet industry.
Tencent was founded in Shenzhen, China, in 1998, and listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since June 2004.
