Ubisoft

Associate Director

Ubisoft • $110K — $130K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of cinema and video games, including cinematic language and gameplay constraints.
  • Proficient in cinematography focusing on composition, pacing, staging, and editing.
  • Artistic and technical skills to enhance visual storytelling and mission quality.
  • Ability to articulate ideas clearly through discussions and visual presentations.
  • Proficient in creating visual materials quickly using video edits and tools like Adobe After Effects.
  • Experience in proposing creative solutions that align with production constraints.
  • Storyboard experience is a valuable asset.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Director to ensure a consistent narrative tone and player experience.
  • Integrate narrative needs and gameplay constraints early in mission development.
  • Review and enhance playable missions for content quality and consistency.
  • Propose creative ideas that align with the established narrative vision while considering technical aspects.
  • Direct and refine scripted scenes to enhance emotional engagement and atmosphere.
  • Connect narrative elements with mission pacing and character actions.
  • Work with level designers for consistent scene continuity and action pacing.
  • Coordinate with various teams on content goals and visual reviews, including animation and sound.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative projects at a leading video game company.
  • Collaborative environment with a diverse team of creative professionals.
  • Access to professional development and career growth opportunities.
  • Creative freedom to propose and implement impactful ideas.
  • Engagement in a culture that values storytelling and artistic contribution.
Full 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 Additional Information

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA is a French video game company headquartered in Montreuil with several development studios across the world. It publishes games for several video game franchises, including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Raving Rabbids, and Tom Clancy's. The company's largest development studio is Ubisoft Montreal in Canada, which is responsible for the development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs, among others. Ubisoft is the fourth largest publicly traded game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization, after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive. The company has over 18,000 employees and has development studios in 35 countries. Ubisoft's revenue for the fiscal year 2020-2021 was ?2.2 billion.
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