Ubisoft teams are driven by their desire to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable entertainment experiences. They give life to worlds, real playgrounds where the imagination can express itself freely, giving birth to moments of surprise, fun and adventure that also allow the player to learn and discover himself.
At Ubisoft, you have the opportunity to collaborate and evolve with passionate and pioneering teams, all over the world. You will evolve in a benevolent and inspiring environment in which you will push the limits of imagination and technology to create the worlds that will fascinate our players.
As part of the development of Beyond Good and Evil 2, we are looking for a Narrative DIrector to join our team in order to help create and expand the world of System 3.
Job Description
As a part of the creative core team, you will make the creative director's vision and the story come to life through all of the narrative toolbox. As a narration expert in the video game industry, you will make sure we bring a great story to life. Under the responsability of the senior producer, Your responsibilities will be as follows
Drive, build and grow an engaged and diverse team
Oversee the narrative context for all the missions, being responsible for all set pieces through storylines, screen-tests. Ensuring the quality of the script, scene breakdowns, and final edits of the scenes and cinematics;
Coordinating with the Creative Director to define the story
Coordinating with the Cinematics team, reviewing cutscenes to ensure they are on par with the vision;
Work closely with the Game Director to make sure the game design lines up with the narrative experience, and with the Art Director on the characters and world.
Leading casting and voice recording sessions;
Ensuring the overall coherence of the storyline/scripted events throughout the game;
Providing guidelines in regard to the development of specific narrative/scripted event features and assets;
Contributing to the writing process and ensuring that the narrative scenes and cinematics are integrated into the gameplay;
Ensuring constant communication between the development team and other project stakeholders;
Qualifications
To make sure you succeed in this role, we expect most of the skills and accomplishments below
Strong narrative and writing experience in several industries
Proven narrative design experience in game production, preferrably AA or AAA productions : you shipped at least one project as either a narrative lead or a narrative director
Solid understanding of the video games industry, the market and pop culture
Strong people management and collaboration skills
You know how to give and receive feedback in a creative and collaborative process
Expertise in scifi genre
Understanding French will also be an asset for this role. English is mandatory
Additional Information
Ubisoft strives to develop a work environment that includes the diversity of the player community in its teams. Ubisoft offers all the same opportunities for access to employment regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability and age.
