Senior Technical Designer - Unannounced project (M/NB/W)

Company Description

Ubisoft’s 19,000 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.

Job Description

Ubisoft's pioneering studio, Paris studio was responsible for the publisher's first successes following its creation in 1992. Today, it is at the helm of such must-have licenses as Just Dance, Ghost Recon and Mario + The Rabbids. Ubisoft Paris has also built a solid reputation as a partner of choice in cross-studio collaborations such as Watch Dogs, Skull & Bones, Beyond Good & Evil 2 and Star Wars. Building on this experience, the studio continues to push the boundaries of creativity by working on some very promising yet unannounced projects. 

With 750 talents of 35 nationalities, Ubisoft Paris is today the largest studio in France and one of the most experienced in the industry. Young talents can benefit from the strong presence of senior profiles in the creative, technical or artistic fields. Everyone is driven by the same passion: to push the limits of what is possible and to offer new experiences to our players.

Ready to join the adventure? Join us at the Paris Studio!

As part of the Technical Lead team, you will join one of our unannounced projects. As a Senior Technical Designer (M/NB/W), you will be fully integrated into production team and your role will be to answer technical challenges of the Design team. 

Your tasks will be as follows: 

• Act as a technical reference for the team in relation to Game Design & Level Design and provide technical support for integration.
• Collaborate with Design and Programming teams to implement tools & features in the engine.
• Proactively identify and define technical solutions for various gameplay and systemic features.
• Understand, collect, and share best practices, pipelines, and workflows.
• Document tools and pipeline and ensure that team members have all the necessary tools and information to use them.
• Participate in data optimization and validation, taking budget into account and ensuring that technical standards are respected.
• Participate in the advanced debugging of data throughout production.
• Provide regular feedback to design directors (e.g. suggestions for improving tools and methods, etc.).

Qualifications

• Experience in Design with a technical focus, track record of shipped games in a similar position,
• Technical knowledge of game engine, game editor and visual programming (ex. Unreal blueprint),
• The ability to understand and communicate in technical language & clearly express your ideas (both on paper and in person),
• Flexibility and solid analysis and problem-solving skills and a user-oriented spirit,
• Experience in programming/scripting is a plus.

Additional Information

Joining us means having access from day one to :

• Flexibility in your working hours and the possibility to work remotely under the conditions of the Ubisoft policy.
• Our internal e-learning platform to finally train you on the tools you need so much;
• Our game library where you can borrow the latest Ubisoft games, those of the competition, consoles and board games;
• Our preferential rates on a wide range of shows, cinemas, concerts, sports halls, amusement parks, and many other good deals.

And after 1 year?

• You have a career and development plan established with your manager as well as clear objectives that will allow you to progress and increase your salary each year;
• You have joined one of our clubs : choir, yoga, tennis, lightsaber... Or you have created your own! 
• You take advantage of your 1.5 hour lunch break to take part in a class in our gym or borrow one of our bicycles to ride in the Bois de Vincennes ;
• You look forward to the next surf/yoga or ski weekend organized by the work council;
• You've gotten really good at foosball, rock climbing, Mario Kart or Just Dance. 

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