Senior Scriptwriter [Assassin’s Creed]

Job Description

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

Qualifications

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