About the role
Company Description
Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help create the unknown!
Job Details
- Position: Associate Director
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Contract: Permanent
- Location: Office-based (Montréal)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Director: Maintain a consistent narrative tone and player experience.
- Contribute early in mission development: Integrate narrative needs, branching content, and gameplay constraints.
- Review playable missions: Complete a directing pass to improve content quality and consistency.
- Propose creative ideas and solutions: Support the established vision while considering narrative, technical, and gameplay constraints.
- Direct and polish scripted scenes: Strengthen their tone, tension, atmosphere, and emotional impact.
- Connect mission elements: Manage narrative, characters, scripted events, artificial intelligence, and animals.
- Collaborate with level designers: Maintain consistent scene placement, continuity, and action pacing.
- Participate in direction and review meetings: Work with animation, level design, lighting, visual effects, and narrative teams.
- Communicate content goals: Coordinate with art teams regarding sketches, characters, textures, animation sequences, image compositing, sound effects, and lighting.
- Contribute to post-production: Assist with voice recording, sound mixing, and final editing while supporting quality goals and schedules with associate production and coordination.
Qualifications
- Industry Knowledge: Demonstrate strong knowledge of cinema and video games, including cinematic language and the technical constraints of gameplay.
- Cinematography: Apply knowledge of composition, pacing, staging, and editing.
- Storytelling: Use artistic and technical skills to support visual storytelling and mission quality.
- Communication: Communicate ideas clearly through discussions and visual presentations.
- Technical Skills: Create visual materials quickly through video edits, visual mock-ups, Adobe After Effects, or comparable tools.
- Problem Solving: Propose creative and practical solutions that respect an established vision and production constraints.
- Collaboration: Build collaboration and consensus across several teams and disciplines.
- Assets: Storyboarding experience is considered an asset.
Application Requirements
- Send your CV highlighting relevant skills and experiences.
- Share relevant examples of storyboards, edited sequences, visual mock-ups, or directing work.