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Job DescriptionAs 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
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
Skills Required
- Deep game design expertise across different systems and mechanics
- Experience using Unreal Engine
- Experience using word processors and spreadsheets
- Thoughtful design skills for solving gameplay problems
- Knowledge of the AAA video game market
- Experience shipping AAA games
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Empathy, collaboration, curiosity, resourcefulness, and flexibility
- CV highlighting relevant skills and experience
- Examples of game design projects
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage in the U.S. includes medical, dental, and vision options with HSA funding to cover the deductible, plus access to One Medical and a mental‑health program. Several studios also provide telemedicine and, in some regions, on‑site clinic services.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid vacation, holidays, wellness time, volunteer PTO, and a sabbatical available after five years in the U.S. Canadian studios highlight six weeks of vacation and additional local days tied to occasions or seasonal reduced hours.
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Parental & Family Support — Enhanced parental leave with salary top‑ups is emphasized in multiple regions, including Canada. In the U.S., a travel‑expense program supports access to reproductive healthcare when services are out of state.
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Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent has brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves.
