TRPG Publishing Lead - D&D

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the creative lead for externally developed D&D content, including adventures, campaign materials, guides, and artwork.
• Establish and communicate clear creative vision, pillars, tone, and quality standards for partners.
• Review and approve creative deliverables to ensure alignment with D&D lore, brand values, and player expectations.
• Participate in RFPs, pitches, and evaluations, providing creative and strategic assessments of partner capabilities.

• Act as a creative liaison between external partners and internal Wizards teams including Product Architects, Design, Art, Narrative, Franchise, Production.
• Gather, synthesize, and represent internal feedback, translating it into clear actions for partners.
• Ensure external work integrates cleanly with internal roadmaps, initiatives, and franchise priorities.

• Lead end-to-end execution for multiple external projects, from Product Architect brief and partner onboarding through final delivery.
• Define scopes, milestones, review processes, and approval checkpoints.
• Own planning, forecasting, and management of external content development budgets in partnership with Production and Franchise leadership.
• Hold accountability for quality and timeliness of partner deliverables; surface clear go/no-go recommendations at key gates.
• Identify risks, gaps, or quality issues early and proactively course-correct with partners.

• Contribute to broader franchise discussions about content strategy, audience needs, and creative evolution.
• Find opportunities where external development can expand capacity, explore new formats, or reach new audiences without compromising quality.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in creative leadership within games, publishing, entertainment, or transmedia storytelling.
• Proven success working with external partners or vendors on premium creative content.
• Strong understanding of narrative, worldbuilding, and visual storytelling principles.
• Demonstrated ability to give clear, constructive creative feedback.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with design, art, narrative, brand, and production teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with Dungeons & Dragons, tabletop RPGs, or adjacent fantasy IPs.
• Experience with franchise or licensed properties.
• Experience managing creative budgets and making cost/quality tradeoffs for externally developed content.

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