Company Description
Ubisoft is a world leader in video games, with teams spread across the globe creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin's Creed to Rainbow Six to Just Dance and many more. We believe that diversity of perspectives drives progress for 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!
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Designer, you will be responsible for creating and implementing complex, technical, and systemic design elements in a game.
You will be, at your core, a game or level designer recognized for your technical skills, within a design production team or multidisciplinary team.
Acting as a technical reference for your team, you will help, support, and advise your peers as needed. You may also be called upon to become the technical expert on the project for a specific game element.
What you will do
- Be responsible for the realization and implementation of the technical elements of a complete game feature by working closely with technical directors, programmers, or other disciplines.
- Act as a technical expert on a specific subject, and in this capacity, be responsible for tools, documentation, and technical support as well as the identification and dissemination of best practices.
- Participate in the optimization and validation of data by ensuring that your colleagues respect technical standards for your area of expertise while taking budget constraints into account.
- Participate in advanced debugging of data through to the very end of production.
- Provide periodic feedback to design leadership, such as suggestions for improving tools and methods, etc.
- Participate in testing new features or tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team.
- Perform production tasks within a team as a game or level designer + prototype gameplay features during game design.
- Design and implement in the game more complex, more abstract design elements that present a technical challenge or have implications for the entire game.
Qualifications
What you bring to the team
- 8 years of experience in game or level design (with a more technical profile)
- Ease in understanding and communicating in technical language + the ability to express your ideas clearly (in writing and verbally)
- Good adaptability, analysis, and problem-solving skills
- A user-oriented mindset
- Great curiosity: you have a passion for understanding how things work
- Experience with different engines and platforms (an asset)
- Experience with multiple 2D/3D creation software (an asset)
- Experience in programming/scripting (an asset)
What you need to send us
- Your CV highlighting your background and skills