Associate Director

ubisoft2· Ubisoft
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📍 Montreal, QC, CanadaFull time

About this role

Company Description

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!

Job Description

As an Associate Director at Ubisoft Montréal, you will support the directing team in delivering an established creative and narrative vision. You will help connect missions, narrative, characters, scripted scenes, and gameplay elements to create a cohesive and emotionally engaging experience.

What you’ll do

  • Collaborate with the Director to maintain a consistent narrative tone and player experience
  • Contribute early in mission development to integrate narrative needs, branching content, and gameplay constraints
  • Review playable missions and complete a directing pass to improve content quality and consistency
  • Propose creative ideas and solutions that support the established vision while considering narrative, technical, and gameplay constraints
  • Direct and polish scripted scenes to strengthen their tone, tension, atmosphere, and emotional impact
  • Connect mission elements, including narrative, characters, scripted events, artificial intelligence, and animals
  • Collaborate with level designers to maintain consistent scene placement, continuity, and action pacing
  • Participate in direction and review meetings with animation, level design, lighting, visual effects, and narrative teams
  • Communicate content goals to art teams and coordinate reviews of sketches, characters, textures, animation sequences, image compositing, sound effects, and lighting
  • Contribute to voice recording, sound mixing, and final editing while supporting quality goals and schedules with associate production and coordination

Qualifications

What you bring to the team

  • Demonstrate strong knowledge of cinema and video games, including cinematic language and the technical constraints of gameplay
  • Apply your knowledge of cinematography to composition, pacing, staging, and editing
  • Use your artistic and technical skills to support visual storytelling and mission quality
  • Communicate ideas clearly through discussions and visual presentations
  • Create visual materials quickly through video edits, visual mock-ups, Adobe After Effects, or comparable tools
  • Propose creative and practical solutions that respect an established vision and production constraints
  • Build collaboration and consensus across several teams and disciplines
  • Bring storyboarding experience as an asset

What to send our way

  • Send your CV highlighting relevant skills and experiences
  • Share relevant examples of storyboards, edited sequences, visual mock-ups, or directing work

Additional Information

Frequently Asked Questions

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Where is the Associate Director position at ubisoft2 located?
This Associate Director role at ubisoft2 is based in Montreal, QC, Canada. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Associate Director role at ubisoft2 full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a Full time position. It is posted as a Associate Director role in the Ubisoft department at ubisoft2.
Which team or department does the Associate Director at ubisoft2 belong to?
This Associate Director position is part of the Ubisoft department at ubisoft2. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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When was the Associate Director job at ubisoft2 posted?
This Associate Director position at ubisoft2 was posted on Sep 25, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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