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Job DescriptionAs a Scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal, you will design and oversee the project’s narrative content, including world-building, characters, tone, and in-game text. You will ensure narrative coherence across gameplay systems while translating creative intentions into clear, playable, and integrable content.
Working closely with production and in collaboration with design, level design, audio, and tech teams, you will help shape narrative direction, validate narrative choices directly in-game, and balance creative ambition with production realities.
What you’ll do
- Design and oversee narrative content across the project, including world-building, characters, and tone
- Translate narrative intentions into playable and integrable content aligned with gameplay constraints
- Align story structure with gameplay systems, pacing, clarity, and replayability
- Collaborate closely with design, level design, audio, tech, and production teams to validate narrative choices in context
- Write narrative content for cinematics, scripted events, and gameplay sequences
- Create and maintain in-game narrative text, such as missions, documents, and systemic storytelling elements
- Make informed narrative trade-offs between depth, clarity, production constraints, and long-term sustainability
- Maintain clear and up-to-date narrative documentation throughout development
What you bring to the team
- Strong expertise in scriptwriting and narrative design for interactive media
- Proven ability to own narrative decisions within gameplay and production constraints
- Solid understanding of game development pipelines and narrative integration
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and integrate feedback constructively
- Experience writing narrative content designed for iteration and replayability
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Creative mindset with a strong sense of observation and curiosity
- Passion for storytelling in games as interactive systems
What to send our way
- Your CV highlighting relevant skills and experiences
- Writing samples or narrative projects relevant to games or interactive media
Skills Required
- Strong expertise in scriptwriting and narrative design for interactive media
- Ability to own narrative decisions within gameplay and production constraints
- Solid understanding of game development pipelines and narrative integration
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and integrate feedback constructively
- Experience writing narrative content designed for iteration and replayability
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Creative mindset with strong observation and curiosity
- Passion for storytelling in games as interactive systems
- CV highlighting relevant skills and experience
- Writing samples or narrative projects relevant to games or interactive 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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What We Do
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.
