Narrative Designer Trading Card Game

About the Company

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles culture and technology. Backed by world-class investors operators and sports & entertainment partners we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans partners and creators.

Role Overview

Fanatics Collectibles is building the future of trading card games.

The Fanatics TCG studio is focused on creating original worlds that are designed to live for decades expressed through gameplay art story and collectible objects. Our ambition is to build franchises that are not only widely played but deeply felt.

We are seeking aNarrative Designer to help shape the worlds characters and stories that define our games.

This is not a role focused solely on writing text. It is a role aboutbuilding worlds establishing the underlying logic tone and emotional core of new universes and ensuring that every part of the player experience reflects that foundation.

You will work closely with Creative Game Design and Art to develop narrative systems that live inside the cards themselves where mechanics visuals and story reinforce one another.

The ideal candidate brings strong storytelling instincts a systems mindset and a passion for creating worlds that players want to return to again and again.

What Youll Do

Build Worlds That Can Sustain a Franchise

• Develop thefoundational lore cosmology and narrative structureof new TCG worlds.
• Define factions cultures characters and conflicts that can evolve over many sets and years.
• Help establish thetone themes and emotional identityof each franchise.

Integrate Story with Game and Product

• Partner with Game Design to ensure thatmechanics and narrative reinforce each other.
• Collaborate with Art and Creative teams to align onvisual storytelling and world cohesion.
• Contribute to the development ofset themes narrative arcs and character moments.

Design Narrative Systems for Cards

• Develop approaches for how story is expressed throughcard names flavor text mechanics and set structure.
• Ensure that narrative isdiscoverable through play and collection not just external content.
• Help define how narrative evolves across releases and expansions.

Create and Support Narrative Content

• Writeflavor text card names and supporting narrative content.
• Contribute to world guides story bibles and internal documentation.
• Support external storytelling efforts (e.g. web content marketing beats potential media extensions).

Collaborate Across the Studio

• Work closely with Creative Design Product and Marketing teams to ensure narrative consistency.
• Participate in early ideation helping shape concepts before they become fully defined.
• Provide feedback that elevates thecoherence and emotional impactof the world.

What You Bring

• 3 years of experiencein narrative design writing or worldbuilding for games publishing or related media.
• Strong ability to developoriginal worlds characters and narrative frameworks.
• Experience working incollaborative cross-functional environments.
• Ability to balancecreative vision with system constraints.
• Excellent writing skills across bothshort-form (e.g. flavor text)andlong-form (e.g. lore story guides).
• Passion forfantasy sci-fi and worldbuilding-driven storytelling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working ontrading card games tabletop games or live service games.
• Background infantasy or sci-fi writing.
• Familiarity with how narrative can be expressed throughgame systems and mechanics.
• Experience contributing tooriginal IP or franchise development.

Why Join Fanatics TCG

Fanatics Collectibles is building the future of fandom.

The Fanatics TCG studio is a rare opportunity to create entirely new worlds worlds that will be expressed through millions of cards shared across global communities and evolved over many years.

As a Narrative Designer you will help define the stories that live inside those worlds shaping the characters conflicts and moments that players and collectors connect with.

If youre excited about building worlds and telling stories that unfold one card at a time wed love to hear from you.

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$123050 - $154100 USD