Job Purpose

The Lead Narrative Designer is responsible for the narrative features and content of the game as well as having to lead and develop a team of narrative designers with a focus on the three pillars of Leadership at Ubisoft: Care about People, Drive Performance and Development and Lead in Complexity.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Build an effective team, ensuring it is fully resourced, manageable and a mix of levels.
• Foster a team player culture; creating an environment for initiatives and ideas to emerge and grow.
• Communicate with impact and promote an open dialogue within the team.
• Utilise your experience and knowledge to guide team members towards creating quality and efficient delivery of narrative designs that are aligned with the vision of the Narrative Director/Creative Director.
• Ensure your team participates in standard studio development processes.
• Define good practices and pipelines and ensure they are carried out through regular peer reviews.
• Be responsible for hiring future candidates within the design team.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with the Narrative Director/Creative Director to help establish the tone, voice, theme and style of the game.
• Help create narrative systems that can support the gameplay and liaise with Designers/Directors on ways that the two systems can best serve each other.
• Work with production, other team leads, and directors to help create task estimates and schedules for the team.
• Continually review the narrative design processes to identify potential improvements.
• Be an advocate and ambassador for information sharing across projects.
• Balance any writing and editing requirements with the management responsibilities of a discipline lead.

Skills & Knowledge

• An excellent understanding of non-linear narrative systems and structures.
• Strong understanding of narrative-related pipelines (VO, cinematics, audio etc.)
• Familiarity with scheduling, task and issue-tracking tools (Perforce, Jira, etc.).
• Able to create, manage and track schedules for a team of Narrative Designers.
• Comprehensive working knowledge of applications related to documentation (Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Confluence, etc.).
• Self-motivated and pro-active with a strong work ethic.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• Passionate about playing and making games.
• Knowledge of narrative and scriptwriting tools (Final Draft, Inkle, Twine, etc.).
• Familiarity with scripting and/or programming tools.
• Presentation and pitching skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Relevant Experience

• Experience managing and leading a team.
• Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent industry experience.
• Worked within Narrative Design or other relevant experience.
• Significant involvement in a published game at a Senior level is a plus.
• Experience working in a multi-site collaboration environment.

Benefits & Relocation

We’re offering flexible working with some remote work available, 25 days annual leave + Christmas shutdown (usually 3 days), private healthcare (with option to add immediate family), life insurance & income protection, workplace pension scheme, paid volunteering days, annual fitness & well-being allowance, games, technology & merchandise, subsidised travel and excellent relocation support, should you need it!

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