Narrative Director

Job Description

About Ubisoft & Shanghai Studio:

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. If you are excited about solving game changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Created in 1996, Ubisoft Shanghai studio, is a vibrant and exciting place where our 600+ talents get opportunities to create innovative mobile games with the highest production values, operate Live games on Chinese and worldwide markets, and to develop great AAA blockbuster games partnering with the most talented teams all over the world working on some of the most renown IPs in the industry.

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Job Description

About the Role

As Narrative Director, you will be key in defining and executing the game's narrative strategy. Working closely with the Creative Director, you will lead a group of passionate writers and narrative designers, and be the driver of all narrative-related matters within this record-breaking game.

What you will do
• Oversee the narrative context for all the missions, being responsible for all set pieces through storylines, screen-tests. Ensuring the quality of the script, scene breakdowns, and final edits of the scenes and cinematics;
• Coordinating with the Creative Director to define the story for upcoming releases;
• Coordinating with the Cinematics team, reviewing cutscenes to ensure they are on par with the vision;
• Work closely with the Game Director to make sure the game design lines up with the narrative experience, and with the Art Director on the characters and world.
• Leading casting and voice recording sessions;
• Ensuring the overall coherence of the storyline/scripted events throughout the game;
• Providing guidelines in regard to the development of specific narrative/scripted event features and assets;
• Contributing to the writing process and ensuring that the narrative scenes and cinematics are integrated into the gameplay;
• Ensuring constant communication between the development team and other project stakeholders;
• Participate in recruitment to build your scriptwriting team & foster their growth, training and coaching new narrative team members

Qualifications

Must Have
• A degree in Creative Writing, Literature, Film, or equivalent
• Proven narrative design or writing experience in game production
• Shipped at least one project as either a Narrative Lead, Lead Writer, or Narrative Director.
• Solid understanding of the video game industry, the market, and modern culture
• A highly creative, collaborative, empathetic, and innovative spirit
• Curiosity, flexibility, and resourcefulness, adapt to feedback
• Good problem-solving, organizational, communication, interpersonal, presentation, and mentorship skills

Nice to Have
• Speak both Mandarin and English fluently.
• Know how to use the Ubisoft proprietary narrative tools (like Oasis Next) it's a big bonus.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2py36-18-117-183-172-42 in your application.