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Lead Narrative Designer | Unannounced Project (M, NB, W)

Job Description

Working closely with the Narrative Director, the Lead Mission Designer and the Lead Narrative World Designer, you will be responsible for the voice and voiceless writing of a next generation game. With strong management and writing skills, you will organize the production for a team of narrative mission designers and their pairing overseas writers, distribute the tasks and communicate with other teams across several studios.

• Ensure that the Narrative director creative vision is respected during the production phases, including (but not limited to) development of main characters and key narrative moments, from initial design to the final game.
• Make the narrative material accessible to the teams that require it (writers, narrative designers, mission designers, narrative world designers).
• Lead the development and presentation of the main story, the main characters and their arcs with the narrative director, realization director and art director
• Ensure the overall coherence of the storyline/scripted events throughout the game
• Ensure the alignment with the creative vision when developing the main characters and key narrative elements, from the conception phase to the release of the game
• Ensure the quality of the script, scene-breakdowns and final edits of the scenes and cinematics
• Collaborate with the different teams (level designers, game designers, artists, animators, audio designers, etc…) to ensure that all the narrative elements are correctly integrated
• Collaborate with world teams to ensure the consistency of the narrative context

This role will also bring you to build and drive a team of five. You will have to make sure that the team remains on time, always within the boundaries of the narrative creative director's vision.

Qualifications

A strong writing experience in the video games industry is mandatory, particularly on GaaS (game as a service) and open world games. You know them and understand how they work.

You have already managed at least a team, ideally in an agile framework and you have strong communication, organization and time management skills.

Fluent or native Englis is mandatory.

If you like military environnements, that's a plus!

Additional Information

The role will be located in Montreuil.

Joining our French studios also means

• Joining one of the leaders of the gaming industry in France. We have offices in over 30 countries with possibilities to relocate and evolve abroad
• Joining passionate teams with great technical capabilities. All of us are willing to conceive and develop innovative games with a strong quality drive.
• Collaborate with teams that are appreciated for their experience on world known IPs
• Grow your expertise joining our internal events (talks, conferences, salons) and enjoying our taylored training programs.

As an employeur, Ubisoft offers equal access to their roles with no distinction of genre, ethnicity, faith, sexual preferences, social status, handicap or age. Ubisoft is wary of building an inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity in our player base.

Company Description

Ubisoft's teams are driven by their goal to enrich the life of the players with memorable and original entertainment experiences. They give life to beautiful worlds where the imagination can express itself completely, resulting in moments of surprise, fun and adventure that allow the player to learn and discover himself.

At Ubisoft, you have the opportunity to work and grow with passionate teams that are pioneers in their field, all around the world. You will evolve in a caring and inspiring environment in which you will push the limits of the imagination and technology to create worlds that will fascinate our players.

In the context of its development, Ubisoft is looking for new talents to join its Paris production studio, proud maker of titles such as Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Mario+Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Just Dance 2020, Watch_Dogs Legion or Beyond Good and Evil 2.

Are you ready to take on new challenges? Do you want to give beautiful experiences to our players? Then come join us!