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.
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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.
To learn more, please visit: www.ubisoftgroup.com
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
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.
Additional Information
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Benefits and Perks from Ubisoft Shanghai:
- Future of Work framework: We believe that working location flexibility is essential to employee engagement and contributes to our high value of work-life balance
- A minimum of 15 days paid annual leave
- Monthly meal and snack allowance
- Premium medical insurance plan and free annual health check
- Game Package: free access to Ubisoft games on PC plus a rich and expanding library of games & books
- Employee Assistance Program: wellbeing solutions, emotional support, and life coaching
- Jumpstart your growth: A rich resevoir of premium and exclusive learning resources to support your continuous learning, expand your skillset, and advance your career.
- 10+ staff clubs featuring weekly sports and gaming activities and events
Ubisoft CSR commitment
Making a long-lasting positive impact for our players, our teams, our partners and our planet.
In Ubisoft, we are working to enrich players’ lives through unique and memorable gaming experiences and by improving the positive impacts of our games. To get there, we are creating a safer, more inclusive work environment, we are giving back to the communities where Ubisoft operates by working with local non-profit partners and by working to reduce the environmental impact of our business.
为我们的玩家、团队、合作伙伴以及地球持续带来积极影响
育碧致力于通过打造新颖深刻的游戏体验及扩大游戏的积极影响，来丰富玩家的生活。为了实现这一目标，我们始终寻求为团队提供更加安全包容的工作环境。我们通过与世界各地的非营利机构合作开展项目，同时努力降低自身业务对环境的影响，来回馈社区。
To learn more about Ubisoft’s Environmental Commitment
了解更多有关育碧对环境的承诺
Play Green: Ubisoft’s Commitment to Global Carbon Neutrality
https://youtu.be/w2gstlpydks
2022 Update
https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/2xcruKK2rZJ22OSeyWzkKO/ubisofts-environmental-commitment-2022-update
