Development Director [Ubisoft Connect] (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 744000030318125

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Ubisoft Connect serves as a hub for all of Ubisoft's online services, allowing players to access their PC games, track achievements, connect with friends, and engage in cross-platform play. Additionally, it offers rewards and progression tracking across Ubisoft titles on both PC and console.
We are seeking a Development Director for Ubisoft Connect’s PC games distribution domain. In this role, you will lead and oversee the development and technical delivery of this key area, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration, top-quality standards, and scalability across Ubisoft’s PC game ecosystem. Your leadership will be essential in delivering a seamless player experience, while driving innovation and operational excellence to align with Ubisoft Connect’s vision.
You will work closely with the Product Director and Development Directors of other delivery domains to ensure the continued success of our multi-platform ecosystem.

What you will do:

Leadership & Team Development:

• Define and drive the development roadmap for Ubisoft Connect’s PC game distribution.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing, inclusive development team, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner with internal teams and game studios to ensure platform integration and alignment with business and player needs.
• Ensure seamless integration of Ubisoft Connect with third-party platforms like Steam, Xbox PC, and Epic Games Store.

Platform Innovation & Optimization:

• Champion innovation by driving new features and optimizing platform performance.
• Continuously enhance platform scalability, security, and user experience.

Quality Assurance & Compliance:

• Uphold the highest quality standards for game distribution, patch management, and updates.
• Implement and oversee rigorous testing and validation processes to ensure smooth, bug-free releases.

Stakeholder Communication:

• Regularly report development progress, challenges, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Cultivate strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment and collaboration across the ecosystem.

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Proven experience managing development teams for gaming or digital distribution platforms; hiring, mentoring and growing the team.
• Understanding of game development pipelines and the unique needs of game studios related to distribution and updates.
• Strong knowledge of security best practices, including digital rights management (DRM), player data protection, and online platforms.
• Fluent English
• You are open to relocate to Düsseldorf, Germany

QA Engineer [Game Security] (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 744000032795106

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Join our team as QA Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest quality standards for our game security projects. You will collaborate with an agile team of dedicated software developers to enhance our QA processes and deliver exceptional gaming experiences.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with an agile team to establish and maintain an efficient QA workflow.
• Design, implement & maintain automated tests for new software features, ensuring robust functionality.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline our development & deployment processes.
• Optimize the quality assurance process and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Take ownership of the quality and stability of new features and releases.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for QA, providing guidance and knowledge to your team and project stakeholders.

Qualifications

What You Bring:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software QA or release engineering.
• Proven expertise in designing, setting up, and automating complex integration test cases.
• Strong proficiency in Python; knowledge of C++ is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitFlow, Jenkins, or similar.
• Experience working in international teams is advantageous.
• Excellent English communication skills; our studio language is English.
• A high degree of self-motivation and initiative, with the ability to anticipate project needs and collaboratively solve technical challenges.

What to Send Our Way:

• Your CV, detailing your education, experience, and skills.
• A cover letter that includes your earliest starting date, expected salary, and your motivation for joining us.

Lead C++ Online Programmer [Rainbow Six Siege] (f/m/d)

Berlin - Full-time - 744000032426323

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Rainbow Six Siege is the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise. Inspired by the reality of counter terrorist operatives across the world, Rainbow Six Siege invites players to master the art of destruction. Intense close quarters confrontations, high lethality, tactics, team play, and explosive action are at the center of the experience

As Lead C++ Online Programmer (f/m/d) you will collaborate closely with the Online Team Leads in multiple studios (including in Montreal, Germany and Shanghai) and Producers to implement the technical vision for the project. You will oversee the team’s work from a technical perspective to maintain alignment with the technical stakeholders in different teams, as well as to ensure that the business goals are met, while also maintaining the integrity of the creative vision.

What you will do:

• Oversee the design and development of online solutions to enrich our players gaming experience.
• Advise the technical design, de-risk and follow up on implementation, to contribute to an efficient and maintainable code at a high level of quality. Keep technical constraints in mind and make creative ideas happen.
• Anticipate potential technical issues and drive creating solutions to avoid or mitigate them.
• Mentor and manage your team and other online programmers, set them up for growth and success.
• You are ready to be hands-on if acceleration of the team is needed.

Qualifications

What you bring:

• 6+ years of professional experience in developing and optimizing online systems.
• 3+ years of professional experience in leading a team, growing and mentoring others.
• Extensive knowledge of C++.
• Ideally additional knowledge of Golang and Kubernetes.
• Ability to communicate requirements and risks diplomatically and to be assertive when necessary. Adapting the level of information towards your listener.
• Analytical and creative problem-solving skills and an aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Focus on efficiency, code quality and user experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (our studio language is English).
• Passion for video games and technology.
• Ideally you have shipped several AAA games.

Lead C++ UI Programmer [Rainbow Six Siege] (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 744000002703650

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Rainbow Six Siege  
Rainbow Six Siege is the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise. Inspired by the reality of counter terrorist operatives across the world, Rainbow Six Siege invites players to master the art of destruction. Intense close quarters confrontations, high lethality, tactics, team play, and explosive action are at the center of the experience. 

What you will do:

You will be working with our UI implementation team in laying the foundation and architecture of the user interface for our online systems. Your systems should be cleanly designed, favor simplicity, and be flexible enough to allow for future expansion.

You will be working as a part of our feature teams, specifically focusing on the ingame Shop and other features related to Monetization within Rainbow Six Siege.

• Collaborate with artists and designers in delivering world-class user interface systems.
• Mentor, grow and lead the other UI programmers within the Shop team.
• Work on User Interface features from conception to final implementation.
• Improve and extend existing game UI and UI framework.
• Collaborate with architects, technical leads and other teams working on Rainbow Six Siege around the world.

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Master or Bachelor degree in (Applied) Computer Science or similar qualifications with a strong technical background.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong C++ skills.
• Leadership experience as team lead or people manager.
• Good understanding of the MVVM paradigm.
• Good understanding of modern Software Engineering.
• Excellent communication skills, and desire to work as a team-player.
• Self-direction and motivation.
• Fluent in English.
• You are open to relocate to Düsseldorf, Germany.

* A strong interest in the video game industry is a plus

UX Designer [Rainbow Six Siege] (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 744000032800244

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Rainbow Six Siege is the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise. Inspired by the reality of counter terrorist operatives across the world, Rainbow Six Siege invites players to master the art of destruction. Intense close quarters confrontations, high lethality, tactics, team play, and explosive action are at the center of the experience.

As UX Designer (f/m/d) you will participate in the conception and production of the user experience of the game. To achieve this goal, you will work within the design constraints and collaborate with other departments to deliver intuitive and user-centered design solutions.

What you will do:

• Work with game designers and artists to determine the best controls and inputs to support game features for a fluid and consistent player experience.
• Make sure the experience is consistent across multiple platforms (PC, Consoles).
• Close collaboration with UX Designers and UX Direction, to ensure a project wide coherent UX design.
• Plan qualitative and quantitative research, including playtests, to validate and evaluate design concepts.
• Document and share clear specifications of UI/UX components.
• Follow-up on final implementation of all features to ensure proper execution.

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Degree in design, UX design or related disciplines.  
• Profound knowledge of UX concepts, workflow and methodology.
• Portfolio showing your ability to innovate and design exceptional user experiences.
• The ability to work within a continuous flow environment (ability to think holistically while building and learning iteratively).
• Profound knowledge of interaction design and user behavior.
• Proficiency in at least 1 prototyping tool (Figma, Axure, Balsamiq, or similar)
• Ability to create functional prototypes.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to rely on a user-focused design approach.
• Fluent in English, both verbally and written.

Senior 3D Programmer [Beyond Good And Evil 2] (f/m/d)

Mainz - Full-time - 744000027602411

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Beyond Good And Evil 2 is an action-adventure sci-fi RPG set in the same universe as Ubisoft’s original cult classic. You can now join our crew at Ubisoft Mainz to help us shape this amazing project with cutting edge graphics.

As a Senior 3D Programmer, your mission will be to develop and maintain graphics techniques within the engine to create the best visuals possible.

What you will do:

• Bring console level graphics quality to new platforms
• Optimize existing rendering technology
• Ability to own and drive development of selected features together with a team
• Collaborate with other Ubisoft studios to extend the capabilities of our in-house rendering technology
• Develop rendering systems that enhance the visual quality, are scalable and fit into defined budgets
• Establish and maintain workflows that allows the content teams to use the developed systems

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Experience as a graphics programmer or similar role in at least one AAA title
• Knowledge of a broad range of rendering algorithms, special effects and related technology
• Knowledge of low-level graphics APIs (D3D12/Vulkan/AGC/NVN/Metal) and shading languages (HLSL/GLSL/PSSL)
• Hands on experience with a variety of graphics profiling and debugging tools (PIX, Razor, nSight)
• Strong skills in C/C++
• Debugging and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with the content teams to reach the highest possible visual quality
• Being a team player by heart
• Self-direction and motivation
• Excellent communication and good English skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent experience will be a plus
• Practical Experience with UI Rendering will be a plus
• Practical Experience with Volumetric Rendering will be a plus
• Experience with Console Development and Optimization will be a plus
   

  What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us
• Any relevant code/work samples you can provide are highly appreciated 

Environment Artist [Beyond Good And Evil 2] (f/m/d)

Mainz - Full-time - 744000031697765

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Beyond Good And Evil 2 is an action-adventure sci-fi RPG set in the same universe as Ubisoft’s original cult classic. You can now join our crew at Ubisoft Mainz to help us shape this amazing project with cutting edge graphics.

The Environment Artist is responsible for creating exceptional high quality game environments within Voyager, the in-house engine we use for Beyond Good and Evil 2.

What you will do:

• Creation of high quality assets and scenes
• Close collaboration with Technical Artists and Technical Level Designers to develop an exceptional player experience.
• Asset briefing, prototyping and final propping of in-game scenes with a focus on mood and environmental storytelling
• Daily cooperation with other Ubisoft teams in Europe
• Scene management, asset integration and performance optimization

Qualifications

What you bring:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in the games industry
• Very good modelling skills (Blender, Maya, 3DSMax, Zbrush, Mudbox)
• A keen eye for composition, proportion, and sense of scale
• Strong ability to tell stories through level art and propping scenes
• Skilled in creating mood and atmosphere for game environments (lighting, composition etc.)
• Solid understanding of industry standard 3D modelling packages as well as texture & material creation workflows
• Ability to optimize the game world to meet performance requirements
• Being used to work on tasks autonomously and to deliver results on time
• Be forward thinking and anticipate the needs of your project with a high degree of self-motivation and initiative
• Ability to accept feedback and adapt to change
• Great communication skills and a positive attitude
• Fluent in English, both verbally and written

Would be a plus:

• Knowledge of Substance Designer / Painter
• Digital sculpting skills
• Experience with outsourcing

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us
• It is required that you submit a portfolio of your work with your application. You may do so by providing a link to an online portfolio (preferred) or attaching documents to your resume.