At a Glance
- Tasks: Craft immersive narratives and characters for epic gaming experiences.
- Company: Join Ubisoft, a global leader in gaming innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, creative environment, and opportunities for growth.
- Other info: Dynamic workplace with diverse perspectives and exciting projects.
- Why this job: Shape the future of storytelling in games and collaborate with talented teams.
- Qualifications: Strong scriptwriting skills and passion for interactive storytelling.
The predicted salary is between 67500 - 82500 $ per year.
Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help create the unknown!
As 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
Qualifications
- 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
Scriptwriter in Montréal employer: Ubisoft Montréal
Rejoignez une entreprise dynamique où votre créativité et votre expertise en animation vidéoludique seront valorisées. Nous offrons un environnement de travail collaboratif qui favorise l'innovation, avec des opportunités de croissance professionnelle et de développement personnel. Située dans un secteur en pleine expansion, notre culture d'entreprise encourage la communication ouverte et le soutien mutuel, vous permettant de diriger votre équipe vers l'excellence tout en contribuant à des projets passionnants.
