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Job DescriptionAs a Senior Scriptwriter on the Assassin’s Creed Franchise at Ubisoft Quebec City, you will play a key role in shaping the narrative vision of the game. With a strong focus on story, tone, characters, and dialogue, you will provide narrative leadership while working closely with quest and mission designers, narrative teams, and production. Reporting to a Lead Writer, you will contribute senior-level expertise within a highly collaborative writer’s room environment.
What you’ll do
- Define, evolve, and uphold the narrative tone and voice of the game in alignment with the Creative Director’s vision
- Write and oversee scripts, dialogue, and in-game narrative content including cinematics, missions, scripted events, and gameplay systems
- Partner closely with quest and mission designers to shape story structure and player experience
- Lead the development of key characters, voices, and relationships within the Assassin’s Creed universe
- Drive and contribute to world building, including cultures, locations, and historical or fictional context
- Provide narrative guidance and feedback to other writers within a writer’s room setting
- Ensure narrative consistency, quality, and clarity across all story assets and reference documentation
- Support narrative planning, integration, and collaboration with production teams and external partners when required
What you bring to the team
- Significant experience in narrative writing and dialogue for interactive media
- Advanced expertise in narrative writing and dialogue
- Proven experience collaborating with multiple writers in a team-driven environment
- Strong understanding of video game narrative design and player-driven storytelling
- Ability to adapt writing to diverse tones, styles, and narrative needs
- Confidence giving and receiving high-level narrative feedback
- Strong communication, organization, and mentorship skills
- Curiosity, creativity, and a deep interest in people, history, and worlds
What to send our way
- Your CV highlighting senior-level narrative and collaboration experience
- Writing samples totaling no more than 10 pages
- If possible, a variety of additional samples showcasing your best work, either as attached files or via a link to your personal website or online portfolio
- Your samples should demonstrate your ability to tell a compelling story, your understanding of scene structure, dialogue, and characterization, and how these elements apply to interactive game experiences
Skills Required
- Significant experience in narrative writing and dialogue for interactive media
- Advanced expertise in narrative writing and dialogue
- Proven experience collaborating with multiple writers in a team-driven environment
- Strong understanding of video game narrative design and player-driven storytelling
- Ability to adapt writing to diverse tones, styles, and narrative needs
- Confidence giving and receiving high-level narrative feedback
- Strong communication, organization, and mentorship skills
- Curiosity, creativity, and deep interest in people, history, and worlds
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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.
