As a Lead Technical Designer, you will be responsible for creating and implementing complex, technical, and systemic design elements in a game. You will act as a technical reference for your team, providing support and advice, and potentially becoming the project's technical expert on specific game elements. Your role involves collaborating with technical directors and programmers, optimizing and validating data, advanced debugging, and testing new features. You will also perform production tasks and prototype gameplay features.

Must Have

• Create and implement complex, technical, and systemic design elements
• Act as a technical reference and expert for the team
• Responsible for implementing technical elements of game features
• Participate in data optimization, validation, and advanced debugging
• Perform production tasks as a game or level designer
• Prototype gameplay features during game design
• Design and implement complex, abstract, technically challenging design elements
• 8 years of experience in game or level design with a technical profile
• Ability to understand and communicate in technical language
• Ability to clearly express ideas (written and oral)
• Good adaptation, analysis, and problem-solving skills
• User-oriented mindset
• Great curiosity for how things work

Good to Have

• Experience with different engines and platforms
• Experience with multiple 2D/3D creation software
• Experience in programming/scripting

Perks & Benefits

• Hybrid work model
• Opportunity to maintain work-life balance

Job Description

As a Lead Technical Designer, you will be responsible for creating and implementing complex, technical, and systemic design elements in a game.

You will primarily be a game or level designer recognized for your technical skills, within a design production or multidisciplinary team.

Acting as a technical reference for your team, you will help, support, and advise your peers as needed. You may also be called upon to become the project's technical expert on a specific game element.

What you will do

• Be responsible for the realization and implementation of the technical elements of a complete game feature by collaborating closely with technical directors, programmers, or other trades.
• Act as a technical expert on a specific subject, and in this capacity, be responsible for tools, documentation, and technical assistance, as well as identifying and disseminating best practices.
• Participate in the optimization and validation of data by ensuring that your colleagues adhere to technical standards for your area of expertise while taking budgetary constraints into account.
• Participate in advanced debugging of data until the very end of production.
• Provide periodic feedback to design management, such as suggestions for improving tools and methods, etc.
• Participate in testing new features or tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team.
• Perform production tasks within a team as a game or level designer + prototype gameplay features during game design.
• Design and implement in the game more complex, more abstract design elements, presenting a certain technical challenge, or having repercussions on the entire game.

Qualifications

What you bring to the team

• 8 years of experience in game or level design (with a more technical profile)
• An ease in understanding and communicating in technical language + the ability to clearly express your ideas (in writing and orally)
• Good adaptation, analysis, and problem-solving skills
• A user-oriented mindset
• Great curiosity: you have a passion for understanding how things work
• Experience with different engines and platforms (an asset)
• Experience with multiple 2D/3D creation software (an asset)
• Experience in programming/scripting (an asset)

What to send us

• Your CV highlighting your background and skills

A real person will analyze your application. In this case, it's Charlotte, our talent acquisition specialist.

Additional Information

About us

Ubisoft is a global leader in video games, with teams around the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin's Creed to Rainbow Six to Just Dance and many more. We believe that diversity of perspectives advances both players and teams. If you are passionate about innovation and want to push the boundaries of entertainment, join our adventure and help us create the unknown!

We adopt a hybrid work model that helps you stay connected with your team and aligned with company priorities, while giving you the opportunity to maintain your work-life balance. Note that some roles are entirely office-based and are not eligible for hybrid work.