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!
As aScriptwriter 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 overseenarrative content across the project, including world-building, characters, and tone
- Translate narrative intentions intoplayable and integrable content aligned with gameplay constraints
- Alignstory structure with gameplay systems, pacing, clarity, and replayability
- Collaborate closely withdesign, level design, audio, tech, and production teams to validate narrative choices in context
- Write narrative content forcinematics, scripted events, and gameplay sequences
- Create and maintainin-game narrative text, such as missions, documents, and systemic storytelling elements
- Make informednarrative trade-offs between depth, clarity, production constraints, and long-term sustainability
- Maintainclear and up-to-date narrative documentation throughout development
What you bring to the team
- Strong expertise inscriptwriting and narrative design for interactive media
- Proven ability toown narrative decisions within gameplay and production constraints
- Solid understanding ofgame development pipelines and narrative integration
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines andintegrate feedback constructively
- Experience writing narrative content designed foriteration and replayability
- Strongorganizational and communication skills
- Creative mindset with a strongsense of observation and curiosity
- Passion for storytelling ingames 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 · Ubisoft