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Job DescriptionAs a Product Director, Knowledge at Ubisoft Montreal, you will guide the Knowledge stream within the AI Initiatives team. In this role, you will help the organization make sense of its information ecosystem, transforming distributed knowledge into accessible, machine-readable foundations that support AI-driven products and internal tools. Reporting to the Vice President of AI Initiatives, you will balance long-term product direction with hands-on contribution, remaining closely connected to the platforms and experiences you help shape.
This is a deeply engaged role. You will work alongside your team to explore ideas, prototype solutions, and learn through experimentation, using modern development practices and AI-assisted tools to ensure the products meet real needs and evolve thoughtfully over time.
While this position has no direct reports, it plays a key leadership role as an AI expert, leveraging influence, credibility, and cross-functional partnerships to guide organizational change and advance AI best practices across Ubisoft.
What you’ll do
- Shape and maintain a clear product vision and roadmap for the Knowledge stream, aligned with AI Initiatives priorities
- Support the creation of knowledge ingestion pipelines that connect enterprise sources such as SharePoint, Confluence, repositories, databases, and media files
- Enable products that focus on data extraction, enrichment, classification, and embedding, turning information into usable knowledge
- Help design knowledge structures including graphs, relationships, ontologies, and taxonomies that reflect how information connects across the organization
- Advocate for the separation of knowledge from presentation, allowing information to be reused, queried, and rendered across multiple contexts
- Collaborate directly on prototypes and early solutions, validating ideas by building and testing practical use cases
- Work in partnership with engineering, platform, security, and data governance teams to integrate the knowledge layer responsibly and effectively
- Foster a supportive, high-trust product and technical environment that values learning, ownership, and continuous improvement
What you bring to the team
- Experience guiding complex product platforms, with comfort moving between strategy and hands-on contribution
- Confidence working with technical systems, data pipelines, and developer tools in collaborative settings
- Understanding of structured and unstructured data and how knowledge can be represented and connected
- Enjoyment of building, prototyping, and iterating, including with AI-assisted development tools
- Ability to communicate complex ideas in clear, thoughtful, and inclusive ways
- Experience working across product, engineering, and governance partners
- A collaborative leadership approach that encourages participation and shared accountability
- Curiosity, adaptability, and care for both product outcomes and team health
What to send our way
- Your CV highlighting relevant skills and experiences
- Examples of products, platforms, or systems you have helped design, build, or support, such as documentation, demos, repositories, or case studies
Skills Required
- Experience guiding complex product platforms with strategy and hands-on contribution
- Comfort working with technical systems, data pipelines, and developer tools
- Understanding of structured and unstructured data representation and connection
- Experience building, prototyping, and iterating, including with AI-assisted development tools
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly, thoughtfully, and inclusively
- Experience collaborating across product, engineering, security, and data governance partners
- Experience designing knowledge structures such as graphs, ontologies, and taxonomies
- Experience enabling knowledge ingestion from enterprise sources (SharePoint, Confluence, repositories, databases, media)
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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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