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 Narrative Director at Ubisoft Montreal, you will define, structure, and evolve the long-term narrative vision of a brand. Working closely with the Head of Content, content leadership, and franchise leadership, you will contribute to ensuring a cohesive player experience, a strong narrative identity, and a shared writing culture across projects, while respecting the creative autonomy of teams.
This role acts as a strategic and architectural reference for shared narrative foundations. You will partner with the creative and narrative directors of each project, who remain responsible for the creative vision, quality, and final narrative experience of their games.
What you will do:
- Define a long-term narrative vision aligned with the brand's identity, tone, and strategy.
- Establish core narrative principles guiding the evolution of the shared narrative universe.
- Align project narrative directions and franchise stakeholders around a shared vision.
- Design and drive shared narrative systems, including the canonical narrative universe, cross-cutting character arcs, and narrative frameworks.
- Ensure consistency, credibility, and scalability of the narrative ecosystem across the brand.
- Support projects through intentional narrative departures, when required by their own vision.
- Develop and maintain a narrative roadmap aligned with the brand's overall strategy.
- Support teams on staging, narrative pacing, and story-gameplay integration challenges.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to think and structure narrative at brand scale over the long term.
- Excellent understanding of player experience consistency, narrative identity, and brand strategy.
- Experience collaborating closely with game directors and creative directors.
- Influential leadership and ability to align and mobilize without direct hierarchical authority.
- Strong strategic communication and synthesis skills.
- Ability to disseminate and encourage narrative best practices in multi-project or multi-studio contexts.
- Good understanding of AAA game development processes.
- Strong interest in creative monitoring and thoughtful narrative innovation.
What you need to send us
- Your CV highlighting your experience and skills.
- Examples of narrative work, conceptual frameworks, or delivered projects relevant to a Narrative Director role.