Creative Text Game Designer, Universes Beyond

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!

 

As a Creative Text Game Designer for Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond's creative organization, you'll serve as a narrative liaison between Magic and partner IP teams to ensure creative text aligns with the tone, lore, and voice of both brands. You'll balance reverence for source material with innovation, identifying opportunities to express beloved characters or moments in fresh, ways that correctly support game mechanics and creative intent.

The Magic trading card game is home to some of the world’s best fantasy artwork. With Universe Beyond, we get to reinvent many of the most beloved characters and fantasy worlds across the entire entertainment industry, working in partnership with premier IP brands. Our work is creative, fun, and fast-paced. Our success depends on a seamless flow of information across a wide range of teams.

 

What You'll Do:

The day-to-day responsibilities are centered around leading the process and execution of generating unique and compelling narrative card content (e.g. card names and flavor text) with external and internal writers for all Magic IP products. This includes, but is not limited to, the following tasks:

• Champion narrative cohesion and emotional impact across card content, recognizing that creative text is a gateway into Magic’s immersive multiverse
• Oversee the lifecycle of writing commissions, ensuring seamless collaboration between stakeholders and preserving the creative integrity of the work.
• Guide and inspire a diverse pool of external writers to craft card content that aligns with Magic’s voice, tone, and cultural sensitivities across different world settings
• Deliver thoughtful, tailored feedback to writers that strengthens narrative cohesion, preserves creative intent, and fosters professional excellence
• Apply your deep understanding of tone, lore, and audience to elevate card content with memorable, resonant language that serves both gameplay and worldbuilding.
• Lead process, goals, and schedules for our Creative Text development, alongside the Narrative Set Lead. Tasks include setting deadlines and following up with external contractors on deliverables.
• Assess current talent, recruit, and onboard new talent to develop the writer pool.
• Participate in worldbuilding meetings and play-testing to foster collaborative communication and reinforce established narrative and mechanical goals.
• Codify and evolve best practices that reflect Magic’s evolving voice, narrative ambitions, and inclusive storytelling standards.
• Lead workflow improvements and task automation for the team.
• Own and organize information for various IPs and internal/external Subject Matter Experts for IP specific needs.
• Work with Product Insights on sourcing IP Subject Matter Experts, updating IP research surveys, and collaborating with the Creative Team on testing needs.

 

What You’ll Bring:

• 2+ years experience with creative writing (including scripts, screenplays, or comics).
• Strong communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail, with excellent interpersonal and time-management skills.
• Passion for feedback, data, and iterating on ideas.
• An outstanding balance between flexibility, forward-thinking mentality, and a strong orientation towards process.
• Clear communicator with excellent written and verbal skills.
• Excited to work in a diverse, multifaceted, and creative environment.

 

Nice to Have:

• Passion for pop culture IPs.
• Production or project management experience.
• Experience working with external vendors.
• Comfort with tools for organizing narrative data and content libraries
• A background or strong interest in game design, particularly how story and mechanics intersect.

 

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

Wizards of the Coast is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. We are committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in th