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Game Designer

  • 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 a Game Designer at Ubisoft Montréal, you will work across a range of game systems and mechanics. You’ll help create experiences where player choices matter. Throughout production, you’ll adjust and balance your designs while considering both the details and the overall player experience.

What You’ll Do


  • Design game mechanics and systems aligned with the game’s design and creative direction
  • Work with cross-functional teams to integrate your assigned features
  • Build prototypes in Unreal Engine and assess their performance
  • Adapt your designs to technical and production constraints
  • Find solutions to issues affecting game features
  • Create and maintain design documentation for collaborating teams
  • Refine features through testing, adjustment, and balancing


Qualifications

What you bring to the team


  • Apply deep game design expertise across different systems and mechanics
  • Use Unreal Engine, along with word processors and spreadsheets
  • Bring thoughtful design skills to a range of gameplay problems
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the AAA video game market
  • Bring experience shipping AAA games as an asset for this role
  • Share your enthusiasm for building high-quality AAA games
  • Communicate and present your ideas clearly in writing and conversation
  • Bring empathy, collaboration, curiosity, resourcefulness, and flexibility


What To Send Our Way


  • Send your CV highlighting relevant skills and experience
  • Share examples of your game design projects as files or links
More about this job

Responsibilities

Design and refine game mechanics and systems, build and evaluate Unreal Engine prototypes, and integrate features with cross-functional teams. Maintain design documentation and test, adjust, and balance features while accounting for creative direction, player experience, and production constraints.

Requirements

The role calls for deep game design expertise across systems and mechanics, proficiency with Unreal Engine and office productivity tools, and knowledge of the AAA video game market; experience shipping AAA games is an asset. Candidates should communicate ideas clearly and demonstrate collaboration, empathy, curiosity, resourcefulness, flexibility, and enthusiasm for high-quality AAA games.

Skills

  • Game Design
  • Game Mechanics
  • Game Systems
  • Unreal Engine
  • Prototyping
  • Feature Integration
  • Design Documentation
  • Gameplay Testing
  • Balancing
  • AAA Game Development
  • Problem-Solving
  • Written Communication
  • Presentation
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Adaptability

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Categories

  • Creative & Media
  • Art & Design
  • Software

Keywords

  • Game Design
  • Game Mechanics
  • Game Systems
  • Unreal Engine
  • Prototyping
  • Feature Integration
  • Design Documentation
  • Gameplay Testing
  • Balancing
  • Player Experience
  • Player Choices
  • AAA Video Games
  • Game Production
  • Creative Direction
  • Technical Constraints
  • Cross-Functional Teams
  • Word Processors
  • Spreadsheets
  • Feature Refinement
  • Game Design Projects

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