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Company Description

Ubisoft is a global reference in video games, with teams around the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed to Rainbow Six to Just Dance and many others. We believe that diversity of viewpoints advances both players and teams. If you are passionate about innovation and want to push the boundaries of entertainment, join our adventure and help us create the unknown!

Position Description

As a scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montréal, you design and oversee all narrative content of the project, including universe development, characters, tone, and in-game texts. You ensure narrative coherence with game systems and translate creative intentions into clear, playable, and integrable content.

Working closely with production as well as design, level design, audio, and technology teams, you help guide narrative choices, validate them directly in-game, and reconcile creative ambition with production realities.

What you will do:

• Design and oversee the project’s narrative content, including the universe, characters, and tone
• Translate narrative intentions into playable and integrable content that fits gameplay constraints
• Ensure alignment between narrative structure, gameplay, pacing, and replayability
• Collaborate closely with design, level design, audio, technology, and production teams to validate narrative choices in context
• Write narrative content for cinematics, scripted events, and gameplay sequences
• Produce and maintain in-game narrative texts, such as missions, documents, and systemic narrative elements
• Make necessary narrative trade-offs between depth, clarity, production constraints, and sustainability
• Keep clear and up-to-date narrative documentation throughout development

Qualifications

What you bring to the team:

• Excellent scriptwriting and narrative design skills for interactive media
• Demonstrated ability to make narrative decisions in a context of game and production constraints
• Good understanding of game development pipelines and narrative integration
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and incorporate feedback
• Experience in iteration-focused and replayability-driven storytelling
• Strong organizational skills, clear communication, and rigor
• Creativity, curiosity, and strong observational skills
• Strong interest in storytelling as an interactive system

What to send us:

• Your resume highlighting your relevant experience and skills
• Writing samples or narrative projects relevant to games or interactive media

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