Quest Director

2 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Level Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Quest Director at Ubisoft Bordeaux, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping key features and quests for an unannounced AAA project. Responsibilities include defining and communicating the quest direction, overseeing game content (levels, campaigns, quests, dialogs), creating objectives and workflow, improving narrative design and player progression, guiding mission scripting teams, collaborating with cross-functional teams (Design, Art, Narrative), and optimizing content creation tools. This requires experience supervising teams in AAA game production, ideally open-world games, and expertise in design, narrative, player progression, and content creation tools.
Must have:
  • AAA game production experience in a supervising role
  • Team supervision/direction experience
  • Clear communication and vision articulation
  • Expertise in design, narrative, player progression
  • Advanced knowledge of content creation tools

Job Details

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Ubisoft’s 17,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. 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.

Ubisoft Bordeaux

Founded in 2017, Ubisoft Bordeaux works with passion on the biggest AAA titles to deliver the best gaming experiences. Today, the studio is composed of 400 talents from 20 different nationalities, working on licenses such as Assassin's Creed, Beyond Good & Evil 2 and a free to play game, BattleCore Arena. At the same time, the studio has set up a Tech branch which works on all Ubisoft's online services (named Online Services) as well as on the Anvil game engine. Ubisoft Bordeaux is also home to a R&D team, La Forge, which brings together engineers and researchers to work together on prototypes for game production, particularly around AI topics.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As Quest Director on a project not announced yet, you will be heavily involved in the creation of key features and quests. You will manage the creation of all relevant design content while ensuring that it reflects the artistic and conceptual vision of the project and fully exploits the potential of all game mechanics. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

  • Participate in defining, establishing and communicating the Quest direction in line with the creative vision of the game  
  • Supervise game content, such as levels, campaigns, quests, events and dialogs, with the Lead and other Directors 
  • Create and monitor objectives and workflow 
  • Improve the design of the narrative, the pace of the game, the difficulty, the player progression as well as the consistency of all the mechanics used to create the content 
  • Inform and guide the mission scripting and quest design teams on how to realize and successfully craft the mission gameplay goals into a highly engaging, playable experience 
  • Collaborate with the Design, Art, Narrative Design and Realization teams and the Producers to deliver high-quality content  
  • Participate in the research and optimization of content creation tools and workflows 

QUALIFICATIONS

As a Director in this field you’re enthusiastic about quality and innovation. You excel at communicating your vision to various stakeholders and developing strategic efforts with your team. You appreciate working in collaborative environments, supporting different professionals. Your team leadership experience equips you to navigate through challenges, provide constructive feedback, and streamline workflows. 

  • Experience in at least one full AAA videogame production, in a supervising role (Director or Associate Director), ideally for an Open World game 
  • Professional experience in supervising/directing a team   
  • Capacity to clearly articulate and communicate a vision and strategy  
  • Key expertise of design, narrative and player progression 
  • Advanced knowledge of content creation tools and workflows 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • Studio: Ubisoft Bordeaux
  • On-Site based position - Weekly Work From Home pace to define 
  • Contrat : Permanent

Hiring Process

  • Phone interview with one of our recruiters
  • Several interviews with the Hiring Manager and the Core Team of the project
  • One interview with the Studio Core Team

If your application is not retained, you will receive a negative answer.

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Ubisoft’s 21,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences.


Their commitment and talent have 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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