Scriptwriter

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.

About Ubisoft

Passion for storytelling in games as interactive systems

What to send our way

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. 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!

Responsibilities

• 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
• Solid understanding of game development pipelines and narrative integration

Requirements

• Strong expertise in scriptwriting and narrative design for interactive media
• Proven ability to own narrative decisions within gameplay and production constraints
• 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

Preferred

• Writing samples or narrative projects relevant to games or interactive media

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