Total 107 job vacancies by Ubisoft

Position Title: Junior Game Tester
**Note**: Final Designation/Level will be decided based on the relevant experience and interview ratings 

Department: Quality Control

Mode of Employment: 1 Year Contract (May be extended depending upon availability of role in future)

Job summary: 

Ubisoft India - Pune location, we are looking for passionate, enthusiastic, and ambitious individuals for the role of Junior Game Tester. You will be responsible to test games of different genres on multiple platforms, look for bugs and accurately report them in the database to ensure superior game quality before release.

In this role, you should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and have an eye for detail to identify issues in the game. If you are a team player and passionate about video games in general, then you are the right fit for this role. Ultimately, you will ensure the games quality and will be helping the team in creating a memorable gaming experience for end users. With this job you will get a chance to work with Industry experts from different studios around the globe.

You will be an integral member of the team, responsible for implemented integrated communication and content creator campaigns across a variety of traditional and new media platforms. This role will develop direct relationships with press and content creators, and work with support agencies where relevant, to deliver paid and earned activities that support marketing pulse points for Ubisoft games.

Utilizing a “player-first” mentality, the Communication & Content Creator Manager will work with cross-functional teams to create unique engagement opportunities and activations in the ANZ territory.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Partner with the Head of Communications & Content Creators to implement tailored, effective, and innovative communications and creator campaigns
• Develop and maintain Ubisoft’s relationships with key local press and content creators
• Execute content creator campaigns for allocated titles that deliver strong ROI
• Support deployment of the Company Creators Program: applications vetting, local promotion, business requests management, etc.
• Collaborate closely with Ubisoft global and regional teams to share local knowledge and coordinate campaigns
• Manage the co-ordination of local press and creator events
• Collaborate with internal and cross functional stakeholders worldwide
• Ensure local reports are finalised for local and global counterparts by the relevant deadline

At Ubisoft, we want to build the most creative, diverse and inclusive teams, and that's exactly what Develop at Ubisoft is all about: empowering and supporting under-represented genders.

The program provides mentorship opportunities for women and non-binary individuals (students or fresh graduates with less than 2 years of experience), interested in video games to develop their skill set in Game Design and Programming. We want to empower you to learn, grow, and become the very best developer that you can be.

Join us at Develop at Ubisoft and embark on a transformative journey toward a more diverse and inclusive future for the gaming industry.

The selected candidates will create a project based on a predetermined theme and will be mentored by a Ubisoft expert over a fixed period, from November 2024 to March 2025 (specific timelines may vary by location). During this time, they will receive feedback to help build their project.

In the Game Design track, you will pitch a design concept outlining your intentions and its impact on player experience. You will also follow the production journey of a Game Designer at Ubisoft, working towards developing a prototype plan.

At Ubisoft, we want to build the most creative, diverse and inclusive teams, and that's exactly what Develop at Ubisoft is all about: empowering and supporting under-represented genders.

The program provides mentorship opportunities for women and non-binary individuals (students or fresh graduates with less than 2 years of experience), interested in video games to develop their skill set in Game Design and Programming. We want to empower you to learn, grow, and become the very best developer that you can be.

This mentorship program is accessible to aspiring talents in multiple countries, including Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, and Vietnam.

Join us at Develop at Ubisoft and embark on a transformative journey toward a more diverse and inclusive future for the gaming industry.

The selected candidates will create a project based on a predetermined theme and will be mentored by a Ubisoft expert over a fixed period, from November 2024 to March 2025 (specific timelines may vary by location). During this time, they will receive feedback to help build their project.

In the Programming track, you will develop and submit a game using either C++ or C# with a freely available development tool. 

The Animator creates animation for characters and/or objects based on rigged 3D models, and contributes to the visual elements of the gameplay and/or cut scenes.

The main and routine tasks of the animator are to:

• Create high-quality animations while optimizing them to meet technical constraints and making any changes that are requested based on the artistic direction
• Understand and manipulate mocap data for in-game animation systems
• Work in close collaboration with the animation director, art director, game designers and programmers to understand the quality objectives, gameplay intentions and engine capacities in order to anticipate the in-game look of the animations
• Be able to prototype animation systems that will serve as a basis for animation and gameplay-related discussions
• Help estimate the time required to carry out own tasks and manage time to meet deadlines
• Report any potential animation-related issues to the immediate supervisor
• Carry out all other related tasks

The Junior Gameplay Programmer executes under supervision several programming tasks, in supporting the playability of the game (the link between the player’s actions, character’s behaviours, and the consequences on the evolution of the game).

The main tasks of the junior programmer are to:

• Carry out regular functional check-ins, to progressively integrate development into the shared code base;
• Collaborate with game designers/level designers/animators so as to discuss the constraints and establish the technical possibilities of the various gameplay functions;
• Choose the appropriate data structures and algorithms for the task at hand; 
• Test work after each stage to ensure stability;
• Demonstrate understanding of the basics of load and game feature testing and write test code;
• Include comments in the code and document implemented features;
• Test other connected features that could be impacted by the produced feature;
• Use a coding style that is efficient and easy to read;
• Debug own code and bugs of basic complexity in the rest of the engine.
• Test work after each stage to ensure stability;
• Ensure that code changes are fully tested (multi-player, all platforms, all game modes and middleware, where applicable);
• Test other connected features that could be impacted by the produced feature;

As a QC tester, you will be responsible for testing the product before release to market and subsequent updates so that the application is close to a defect free state as possible. 

RESPONSIBILITY

• Work effectively in completing assigned QC tasks; test plan completion, provide feedback on features, investigative tasks, live-ops checks, ad hoc testing on new features in trying to break them.
• Ensure that all bugs are recorded in an efficient, complete, and informative manner, either on the JIRA or bug database.
• Respond to development team’s request in line with the project e.g., providing more information for bugs, balancing, build installation, validating bugs.
• Look after and keep track of company devices, data cables, equipment etc...
• Respond to support tickets internally in reproducing them and updating them with information for the dev team to fix.

You will be specialized in understanding character workflow and tools, rigging & skinning.

You will be working with the Animation and Art teams to ensure they are creating the highest quality content with the tools and assets provided and that the pipelines are as efficient as possible.

• Based on the models provided by character modelers, carry out character rigging and skinning to meet the needs of the project’s animators, technical directors and art directors;
• Adjust the skeleton whenever necessary;
• Create and use tools to increase animation quality and effectiveness, and incorporate them into the project’s game engine through close collaboration with the animation TD while being able to assess the relevance of tool implementation;
• Coach modelers on ways to adapt their work to better suit the animation and the art director’s vision;
• Ensure good use of project’s naming convention and create custom controllers to facilitate the animators’ work;
• Ensure that rigging/skinning final results meets the project’s artistic standards;
• Recognize proper mesh topology as well as repair and/ or give feedback to the art team.

As a Talent Business Partner, you'll provide strategic advisory and guidance to senior leaders that set our Sydney team up for success. 
 
Reporting to the Talent Business Partner Director, you’ll be the connecting link and conduit between the Talent department and senior leaders. With your deep understanding of HR and the realities of the business, you’ll help align talent strategies with key objectives of the business. 
 
What you’ll do: 
 
Strategic partnerships 

• Collaborate with the Talent Business Partner Director and business leaders to understand organizational priorities and business objectives and connect the implementation of strategic HR initiatives to encourage the achievement of those goals. 

Leadership engagement and guidance 

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, fostering a culture of open communication and ensuring a fair and consistent application of HR policies and procedures. 
• Monitor the well-being and engagement of senior leaders and their core teams, using an evidence-based and data informed approach as well as employee insights to guide decision-making and increase team cohesion and efficiency. 
• Cultivate strong partnerships with business leaders and offer guidance on complex HR matters. 
• Work closely with other HR stakeholders to ensure short term and/or operational needs are in alignment with the desired strategic HR vision. 
   

Talent management 

• Translate business needs by providing input into workforce planning, development, and engagement programs to ensure the organization’s talent needs are effectively met for the long term. 
   

Change management 

• Consult and provide input into organizational change initiatives, including organizational design, culture transformation, and employee engagement efforts to drive a culture of accountability and empowerment. 

The Procurement Associate is responsible for driving and supporting the sourcing and contracting needs of the region.  The role is strategic in maintaining relationships with third party vendors as well as with the Global Procurement organization. This position is expected to drive innovations to improve the local procurement process and achieve the highest ROI on every engagement.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead sourcing initiatives, ensures the integrity of the bidding process, and enforces compliance with global procurement guidelines
• Conduct fair negotiations and secure deals that drives savings and highest ROI
• Drive the implementation of regional sourcing decisions and support the implementation of global sourcing directions
• Lead the vendor accreditation process, ensuring new vendors are compliant with company standards and statutory requirements
• Establish and maintain a collaborative relationship with third party vendors and global procurement community
• Manage the end-to-end PR/PO process
• Coordinate importations, process customs permits and licenses
• Perform spend analysis and drive cost saving initiatives
• Support internal stakeholders on their understanding of procurement processes, policies, and system
• Manage the local procurement process, identify gaps, and implement improvements
• Ensure that local operations are updated and compliant with established global procurement policy and its enhancements
• Other ad-hoc procurement tasks

Job Title: SENIOR CHARACTER ARTIST

**Note**: Final Designation/Level will be decided based on the relevant experience and interview ratings. 

JOB SUMMARY:
As a Senior character artist, you will need to solve a wide range of problems with well-rounded experience across multiple disciplines, with specialization in character production workflow. you will be working under the direct responsibility of the Lead Art and interacting closely with the Producer and the Art Director, you will be responsible on collaboration and report to the Lead artist as a team as monthly content pushes and reaches milestone.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Create realistic/stylized 3D models and textures including characters, creatures and accessories and work efficiently and effectively within the technical constraints of production.

• Consistently refine one’s own artistic abilities and learn new software packages and in-house tools.
• Work closely with other departments (designers, artists, and technical artists) to ensure art assets are working well and create a great player experience.
• Support the lead in training, creating workflow documentation and scheduling tasks.
• Mentor and train other 3D artists.

THE PROFESSIONAL VALUE YOU BRING:

• A Graduation / Diploma / Degree in Fine-arts/ graphic-design, videogame development or equivalent training.
• 5-7 yrs. of development experience, ideally having shipped console AAA titles as a character artist.
• Proficient knowledge of 3DSMax/Maya, Painter, Photoshop, and hand-painted textures.
• Exceptional sculpting abilities in Zbrush and deep knowledge of marvelous designer/cloth sculpting or simulation along with hair and fur subsystem (Xgen, Houdini).
• Capable of working in other art disciplines (Environment, Animation etc.) and other Engine technologies (Unreal Engine, Unity etc.).
• Good understanding of human anatomy, Topology & Joint’s functionality.
• Complete understanding of all current generation production workflows including PBR workflow/Lighting pipeline and shader tools.
• Ability to work in engine toolsets, defined asset workflows and contribute to overall character department goals and working practices.
• Monitor the quality of outsourced character assets to ensure technical and artistic integrity.
• Work closely with other departments, suggest ideas and solutions for making a better game.
• Aesthetic ability to improve details with minimal concept and art direction.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating game art with processes and techniques used.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Working knowledge of Houdini.
• Good sketching and drawing skills.
• Remarkable organizational skills, a good mentor for juniors, research oriented & self-driven.
• English language proficiency (spoken & written).
• Experience with version control and bug tracking software.
• Fair knowledge of scripting, tool implementation and deployment.

THE PERSONAL VALUE YOU BRING:

• Enthusiasm in learning and using new technologies and adaptability.
• Positive influence and leadership skills.
• Considerable understanding of video games and broad video game culture.
• Sense of ownership and foresee the risks and delay.
• Strong technical skills and ability to write technical documentations
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner and to make timely well thought decisions.
• Sense of humor, positive approach and working well within a team.
• Self-motivated and agile.

UBISOFT OFFERS:

• International game projects & IP’s.
• Access to cutting-edge hardware.
• Work life balance.
• Experience using hottest internally developed game engines.
• Proficient and fun to work with colleagues.

Job Title:  3D ARTIST

Job Summary: 
As a 3D Artist, you will be responsible for producing high-quality AAA environment assets for our projects. You will create mood boards, concept boards and gather references for preparing asset proposals. You will produce high-quality assets while respecting gameplay and technical constraints. You will collaborate with texture artists, level artist and level designers when producing assets. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Create realistic 3D models and textures including architecture, organic objects and props in accordance with the artistic direction, production deadlines and technical specifications. 
• Sculpt/model UV & texture and integrate both high & low polygon meshes in a PBR pipeline. 
• Verify the quality of objects in the game, and make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• College Diploma/Degree in graphic design, 3D, video game development or equivalent training. 
• 3-5 years’ games industry experience with industry 3D packages, preferably 3DSMax & ZBrush. 
• Experience working on published AAA games a strong advantage. 

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Expert knowledge of 3DSMax, ZBrush and Substance Painter. 
• Expert knowledge of Photoshop. 
• Excellent knowledge of real-time modeling techniques (shaders, PBR, normal, displacement etc.) 
• Strong portfolio showing 3D art skills and demonstrating a high level of artistic creativity. 
• Familiarity with game development cycle. 
• Good understanding of architecture. 

OTHER SKILLS:

• Good organization skills. 
• Strong time management skills. 
• Excellent English communication skills (spoken and written). 
• Considerable understanding of video games and broad video game culture. 
• Self-motivated and agile. 

Company Description
Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication 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.Southeast Asia’s largest AAA game development studio with 450 talented team members representing 30+ nationalities. Opening its doors on the sunny shores of Singapore in 2008, Ubisoft Singapore set off on a vision to be a world class video game studio, and in its subsequent years played an essential role in several gaming blockbusters, including just about every Assassin's Creed® game since Assassin's Creed® II, Immortals Fenyx Rising™, and Ghost Recon Online. Its expertise in AAA and live operations, combined with a passion for naval battle gameplay and water technology, pushed the team to lead the development of a brand-new AAA game franchise – Skull and Bones™.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role Summary

This Senior AI programmer is responsible for game elements not controlled by the player (ex: NPC/enemy actions and behaviours) that enrich the overall game experience.

Responsibilities:

• Collect, interpret and analyze the technical feasibility of AI specifications
• Analyze and determine if current AI functionalities in the game engine meet the project’s AI requirements
• Suggest technical improvements while designing and implementing new AI systems
• Collaborate with designers to discuss technical constraints and establish technical solutions for varying AI functionalities
• Propose technical innovations inspired by industry leaders
• Write clear and well structured C++ code while bearing in mind performance, maintenance and compatibility requirements
• Verify and validate that newly developed systems conform to the project’s AI goals without negatively affecting existing code

QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering. Open to a Gameplay Programmer interested in AI.
• A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience programming for video games or related disciplines
• Exposure in working with gaming at any level
• Desirable experience working on AAA titles, current and next-gen consoles (not essential)
• The ability to support AI functionalities and systems designed for the production
• Find and fix AI bugs flagged by Quality Control and team members from other disciplines
• Document work to transfer system knowledge allowing users to understand the use of new AI functionalities
• Perform all other related tasks
• Analytical and logical
• Ability to solve complex problems
• Ability to take initiative & keen sense of detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Team-oriented & Results driven

Additional Information
We are working to enrich players’ lives through unique and memorable gaming experiences and by improving the positive impacts of our games. To get there, we are creating a safer, more inclusive work environment, we are giving back to the communities where Ubisoft operates by working with local non-profit partners and by working to reduce the environmental impact of our business. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.

Come on board and experience #LifeAtUbi for yourself, we are always on the lookout for talents who thrive in bringing their A-game to work. If this sounds like you, shoot us your resume, portfolio, and anything else to show that you’re serious about fun!

Your Purpose

Be a trusted business partner with production (project teams) to provide financial assistance for decision making and ensure effective and efficient collaboration with all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

The Financial Planning Analyst enables senior management and production teams to make data-driven choices and critical decisions through financial insights and analysis. This role focuses on fostering strong relationships with project teams, through tailored business support and conducting regular budget preparation, reporting, and analysis.

The individual will be facilitating effective collaboration with all stakeholders at projects, studio, collaboration studios and HQ.

Your Daily Adventure

This role will report to the Financial Planning Manager for the Singapore studio.

Projects Budgeting and Reporting

• Prepare initial project budgets and monthly forecast update
• Consolidate and analyze financial data (staffing, activity costs, actuals, forecast)
• Monitor and challenge projects’ budgets and ensure the projects’ spending are within the budget
• Build and maintain dashboards on financial status and risks
• Provide analysis and recommendations to optimize costs and improve financial performance
• Manage and maintain staffing tools
• Consolidate and prepare projects’ P&L
• Prepare finance dashboard for Production’s major updates to HQ

Projects Business Partner

• Demonstrate initiative to engage with business stakeholders in making recommendations for financial/business process and tool improvement
• Conduct regular meetings with producers and executives to communicate finance vision
• Conduct business studies on historical performance, conduct benchmarking, develop financial models, identify trends, conduct ad hoc studies
• Provide additional analysis and forecast, looking for correlations between finance and production data
• Raise flags when need be to address quickly any potential domain issue
• Analyze current tools and practices, assess about efficiency and drive change if need be

OVERVIEW

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work on enhancing the production of our video games through the use of machine learning algorithms. Your experience in translating complex needs into actionable and your drive to implement efficient and adapted solutions will be essential to fulfilling our vision.

Joining our Singapore Data Team, you will work closely with our data analysts, data engineers and other data scientists. We are tackling a wide range of topics, from creation assistance to game features. You will be working on one or several concrete projects, always tied to a game team.

We are looking for individuals with a strong autonomy who can bring their extensive knowledge and experience in machine learning to help us drive forward our use of technologies like recommender systems and generative AI to craft better experiences for our players.

WHAT YOU WILL DO 

In the first six months: 

• You will have become familiar with the data sources available in a AAA game development environment.
• You will have worked in collaboration with our Data Analysts and production teams to extract data you need.
• You will have built a solid relationship with key stakeholders in the game development teams.
• You will have worked on at least one project and showcased your capacity to identify and propose solutions to complex needs.

After this period, you will be able to: 

• Understand the needs of a game development team, propose and communicate efficiently solutions that use data science tools/pipelines.
• Work in collaboration with colleagues in the Data Team to implement and maintain those tools/pipelines for games.
• Prioritize work that delivers the most value for players and the company.