Associate Director (Gamedev)

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; office-based

Company

hirify.global is a global game developer and publisher creating interactive entertainment experiences across multiple franchises.

What you will do

• Support the Director in maintaining a consistent narrative tone and player experience.
• Integrate narrative needs, branching content, and gameplay constraints during early mission development.
• Review playable missions and perform directing passes to improve quality and consistency.
• Direct and polish scripted scenes to strengthen tone, pacing, atmosphere, tension, and emotional impact.
• Connect missions with narrative, characters, scripted events, artificial intelligence, animals, and level design.
• Coordinate reviews with animation, lighting, visual effects, narrative, art, sound, and production teams.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of cinema and video games, including cinematic language and gameplay constraints.
• Knowledge of cinematography, composition, pacing, staging, and editing.
• Artistic and technical skills supporting visual storytelling and mission quality.
• Ability to communicate ideas through discussions and visual presentations.
• Ability to create visual materials using video editing, visual mock-ups, Adobe After Effects, or comparable tools.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and disciplines while respecting an established creative vision.

Nice to have

• Storyboarding experience.
• Examples of storyboards, edited sequences, visual mock-ups, or directing work.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-based work in Montreal.
• Collaboration across animation, level design, lighting, visual effects, narrative, art, sound, and production disciplines.
• Opportunity to contribute to established creative and narrative visions in game development.