Group Manager, Creative Production

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown!

JOB DESCRIPTION

As this vacancy is managed by the Talent Acquisition team based in England, please apply with your CV/profile in English. This helps us review your application efficiently and ensures the smoothest possible recruitment experience.

As a Group Manager, Creative Production at Ubisoft, you’ll lead and grow our Creative Production team, combining in-house talent and external partners to adapt and version static and video assets for global marketing campaigns across social, CRM, paid media, retail, and digital storefront platforms. You’ll also oversee print design specialists who advise on, review, validate, and correct printed materials such as game packaging, leaflets, point-of-sale materials, and other marketing collateral.

You’ll balance people leadership with hands-on creative contribution, coaching the team while staying close to the craft. You’ll help ensure strong creative consistency, the right level of resourcing, and continuous improvement of our production capabilities, including production automation, scripting, and AI-enabled tools where relevant.

What you’ll do

• Lead and develop an in-house team of graphic designers, motion designers, and print specialists
• Define team structure and areas of specialization to cover key static and motion or video asset needs
• Translate campaign briefs into clear production requirements, building structured task plans that designers can execute
• Assign and prioritize production tasks, setting expectations on scope, timelines, and quality for each deliverable
• Review and validate deliverables against briefs, guidelines, and expected quality standards
• Balance internal capacity with external contractors to meet peak production needs while protecting quality
• Track team capacity and agency dependency using production metrics to support planning and make-or-buy decisions
• Oversee and contribute to the adaptation and versioning of campaign assets across paid media, social, CRM, retail, and out-of-home formats
• Oversee video adaptation workflows including cutdowns, format versions, subtitle integration, and localization support
• Improve production workflows through scripting, automation, and AI-assisted tools, ensuring outputs are reviewed and meet brand and campaign specifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• What you bring to the team

• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary creative production teams across design, motion, and or video

• Strong hands-on expertise producing and adapting assets across digital marketing formats including paid, social, CRM, retail, and out-of-home

• Strong working knowledge of video post-production workflows, including cutdowns, versioning, and subtitle or localization integration

• Proven ability to manage a hybrid internal and external production model using project management software such as JIRA, including contractor and agency oversight

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and After Effects

• Experience improving design production through scripting, automation, and AI assistance to reduce manual effort and rework

• Solid understanding of brand compliance needs, including age ratings, legal lines, and platform specifications

• Strong attention to detail and ability to give clear, actionable creative feedback

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Ubisoft's perks

• Profit Sharing, yearly company saving plan. 25 paid time off + 12 additional paid days off. 50% of your transportation pass is paid by the company, lunch vouchers (9€/day), healthcare for you and your family, and lots of Ubisoft additional perks.

• Maternity leaves of 20 weeks, paternity/co-parental leaves of 7 weeks.

• Our office is located in Saint Mandé, (Metro line 1, Saint Mandé station). Gym available in the building.

• Recruitment process

• 30 minutes: Talent screening call with the Recruiter

• 60 minutes: Interview with the manager of the role

• 30 minutes: Discussion with the Director

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