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Ubisoft Montréal

Associate Director

  • Montreal, QC, Canada

Full-time

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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 Description

As an Associate Director at Ubisoft Montréal, you will support the directing team in delivering an established creative and narrative vision. You will help connect missions, narrative, characters, scripted scenes, and gameplay elements to create a cohesive and emotionally engaging experience.

What You’ll Do


  • Collaborate with the Director to maintain a consistent narrative tone and player experience
  • Contribute early in mission development to integrate narrative needs, branching content, and gameplay constraints
  • Review playable missions and complete a directing pass to improve content quality and consistency
  • Propose creative ideas and solutions that support the established vision while considering narrative, technical, and gameplay constraints
  • Direct and polish scripted scenes to strengthen their tone, tension, atmosphere, and emotional impact
  • Connect mission elements, including narrative, characters, scripted events, artificial intelligence, and animals
  • Collaborate with level designers to maintain consistent scene placement, continuity, and action pacing
  • Participate in direction and review meetings with animation, level design, lighting, visual effects, and narrative teams
  • Communicate content goals to art teams and coordinate reviews of sketches, characters, textures, animation sequences, image compositing, sound effects, and lighting
  • Contribute to voice recording, sound mixing, and final editing while supporting quality goals and schedules with associate production and coordination


Qualifications

What you bring to the team


  • Demonstrate strong knowledge of cinema and video games, including cinematic language and the technical constraints of gameplay
  • Apply your knowledge of cinematography to composition, pacing, staging, and editing
  • Use your artistic and technical skills to support visual storytelling and mission quality
  • Communicate ideas clearly through discussions and visual presentations
  • Create visual materials quickly through video edits, visual mock-ups, Adobe After Effects, or comparable tools
  • Propose creative and practical solutions that respect an established vision and production constraints
  • Build collaboration and consensus across several teams and disciplines
  • Bring storyboarding experience as an asset


What To Send Our Way


  • Send your CV highlighting relevant skills and experiences
  • Share relevant examples of storyboards, edited sequences, visual mock-ups, or directing work
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Responsibilities

Support the Director in maintaining the established creative and narrative vision by integrating missions, characters, scripted scenes, and gameplay into a cohesive player experience. Review and polish missions and scenes, coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to voice recording, sound mixing, and final editing while meeting quality and schedule goals.

Requirements

Candidates should have strong knowledge of cinema and video games, including cinematic language, cinematography, and gameplay constraints, along with artistic and technical skills for visual storytelling. They should communicate ideas clearly, create visual materials using editing or mock-up tools, develop practical creative solutions, and build consensus across teams; storyboarding experience is an asset.

Skills

  • Cinematic Direction
  • Narrative Integration
  • Mission Design
  • Visual Storytelling
  • Cinematography
  • Scripted Scene Direction
  • Gameplay Integration
  • Video Editing
  • Visual Mock-Ups
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Storyboarding
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Creative Problem-Solving
  • Production Coordination

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Categories

  • Creative & Media
  • Art & Design
  • Management & Leadership

Keywords

  • Ubisoft
  • Video Games
  • Cinematic Language
  • Narrative Vision
  • Mission Development
  • Branching Content
  • Gameplay Constraints
  • Playable Missions
  • Scripted Scenes
  • Visual Storytelling
  • Cinematography
  • Composition
  • Pacing
  • Staging
  • Editing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Level Design
  • Animation
  • Lighting
  • Visual Effects
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Video Editing
  • Visual Mock-Ups
  • Storyboarding
  • Voice Recording
  • Sound Mixing
  • Image Compositing
  • Sound Effects
  • Production Coordination

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