Senior Scriptwriter [Assassin’s Creed]
As a Senior Scriptwriter on the Assassin’s Creed Franchise at Ubisoft Quebec City, you will play a key role in shaping the narrative vision of the game. With a strong focus on story, tone, characters, and dialogue, you will provide narrative leadership while working closely with quest and mission designers, narrative teams, and production. Reporting to a Lead Writer, you will contribute senior-level expertise within a highly collaborative writer’s room environment.
What you’ll do
- Define, evolve, and uphold the narrative tone and voice of the game in alignment with the Creative Director’s vision
- Write and oversee scripts, dialogue, and in-game narrative content including cinematics, missions, scripted events, and gameplay systems
- Partner closely with quest and mission designers to shape story structure and player experience
- Lead the development of key characters, voices, and relationships within the Assassin’s Creed universe
- Drive and contribute to world building, including cultures, locations, and historical or fictional context
- Provide narrative guidance and feedback to other writers within a writer’s room setting
- Ensure narrative consistency, quality, and clarity across all story assets and reference documentation
- Support narrative planning, integration, and collaboration with production teams and external partners when required
What you bring to the team
- Significant experience in narrative writing and dialogue for interactive media
- Advanced expertise in narrative writing and dialogue
- Proven experience collaborating with multiple writers in a team-driven environment
- Strong understanding of video game narrative design and player-driven storytelling
- Ability to adapt writing to diverse tones, styles, and narrative needs
- Confidence giving and receiving high-level narrative feedback
- Strong communication, organization, and mentorship skills
- Curiosity, creativity, and a deep interest in people, history, and worlds
What to send our way
- Your CV highlighting senior-level narrative and collaboration experience
- Writing samples totaling no more than 10 pages
- If possible, a variety of additional samples showcasing your best work, either as attached files or via a link to your personal website or online portfolio
- Your samples should demonstrate your ability to tell a compelling story, your understanding of scene structure, dialogue, and characterization, and how these elements apply to interactive game experiences