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Designs and oversees interactive narrative content, including world-building, characters, tone, cinematics, scripted events, missions, and in-game text. Collaborates with design, level design, audio, technology, and production teams to integrate storytelling with gameplay systems, pacing, replayability, and production constraints. Maintains narrative documentation and makes informed creative trade-offs throughout game development.

Supervise l’équipe Texture et LookDev, assigne les tâches, assure la qualité des assets et participe au recrutement et au suivi de performance. Crée des textures et shaders photoréalistes pour des créatures, personnages et assets hard-surface. Optimise les workflows, setups de pipeline et shading networks, collabore avec les équipes CG, Lighting, Modeling, FX et Production, et contribue à l’estimation des projets, à la documentation technique et à l’intégration de livrables externes.

Design and optimize in-game economies, progression systems, retention mechanics, and monetization strategies for live-service games. Conduct economic audits, balancing tests, simulations, competitive analysis, and data-driven evaluations. Collaborate with production, monetization, analytics, and support teams to improve player engagement, ARPU, retention, and reactivation. Contribute to economy design best practices, process improvements, and community expertise while leveraging tools such as Excel, VBA, Tableau, and AI.

Conçoit et optimise les économies de jeu, les systèmes de progression, la fidélisation et la monétisation pour des jeux HD et GaaS. Réalise des audits, analyses concurrentielles et tests d’équilibrage, utilise des données quantitatives et des simulations, et formule des recommandations visant à améliorer l’ARPU, la rétention et la réactivation. Collabore avec les équipes de conception, de monétisation et d’analyse, tout en contribuant aux pratiques exemplaires et à l’amélioration des processus.

Supervise CG departments on VFX productions, providing artistic and technical direction, setting goals, monitoring workflows and quality, and ensuring deadlines are met. Collaborate with VFX supervisors, producers, artists, developers, and department leadership to develop efficient pipelines and production workflows. Mentor Technical Directors, anticipate pipeline issues, support R&D requirements, and troubleshoot or optimize scenes when needed. The role requires extensive 3D production knowledge, creature and asset expertise, team leadership, and strong Houdini proficiency.

Lead combat game design for For Honor by balancing multiplayer systems, analyzing player behavior and combat data, adjusting hero abilities and movesets, prototyping gameplay features, and supporting competitive progression systems. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to align gameplay with creative direction, communicate balance decisions, solve systemic gameplay issues, and mentor other designers through feedback and knowledge sharing.

Design and balance For Honor’s multiplayer combat systems, including hero abilities, movesets, gameplay features, and progression systems. Analyze player behavior and combat data, prototype and iterate gameplay adjustments, evaluate systemic impacts, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to align mechanics with creative direction. Mentor designers and communicate balancing goals and decisions across teams.

Supports game production teams in integrating generative AI tools into workflows. Evaluates production needs and technical feasibility, recommends solutions, tracks technology developments, defines best practices, improves workflows, and helps users adopt new tools. Collaborates with Product, Development, and Production teams while communicating technical concepts clearly and balancing artistic, performance, quality, and production constraints.

Guide Ubisoft production teams in integrating generative AI into game development workflows. Evaluate technical feasibility, recommend tools and solutions, define best practices, prioritize workflow improvements, support user adoption, explain technical concepts, and collaborate with Product, Development, and Production teams. The role requires knowledge of game engines, technical art workflows, generative AI models and platforms, LoRA, ControlNet, and tools such as ComfyUI or Houdini.

Develops generative AI solutions for video games by defining evaluation protocols, building and training machine learning prototypes, analyzing complex interactive-system data, and collaborating with machine learning, game design, narrative, and animation teams. The role evaluates AI behaviors with players, identifies experimentation opportunities, supports product and game development, and communicates findings to international stakeholders.