The Director of account digital trust and security leads the team that drives the creation and operational execution of Ubisoft’s digital trust and security strategy for player accounts. This role is critical to ensuring a secure, trustful and seamless player experience while mitigating reputational and regulatory risks for the company.

The incumbent and their team are accountable for the overall health of the player account ecosystem. They define, implement and operate ongoing initiatives that ensure regulatory and privacy compliance while optimizing both player access to their accounts and the ability to combat account fraud (theft, take over, economic fraud, etc.). They continuously monitor the account ecosystem to anticipate crisis and champion accessibility, quality of service, and enforcement of account-related policies while leading the player account security awareness programs. By leading the collaboration of cross-functional teams and industry stakeholders, the Director is accountable for consistency, fairness, and impact across all Ubisoft systems, rules, and operations. The objective is to enable faster decision-making and prioritization to build a proactive approach that prevents crisis and protects both players and Ubisoft from their impact.

What you will do:

Vision:

• Ensure consistency of the whole account security and trust ecosystem, from policies to day-to-day operations and prioritization with stakeholders’ management.
• Build and guide the development of the monitoring systems framework to proactively monitor the player’s account experience for trust and security.
• Drive necessary tools and products roadmaps, based on policies and actual operations insights, from monitoring to player-facing flows.
• Build and evolve the best Account Trust and Security Centre transversal team organization.

Strategy:

• Develop and embody a strong vision for the player account trust and security, grounded in operational reality and the aspiration to put players first, leveraging player feedback, market trends and user research.
• Turn that vision into an actionable 360 strategy, making strong choices that are supported by Account Trust and Security stakeholders.
• Leverage insights and analysis to frame product and tools development priorities and requirements as well as operational improvements needs (through objectives and KPIs).
• Set up and manage the team involved in Account digital trust and security – with direct and indirect reports, including capacity and expertise management and organizational structure evolution when required.
• Accountable for the overall health of the player account system, towards Ubisoft Creative Houses and Ubisoft Group – and towards players.

Operations:

• Proactive, ongoing monitoring of the account ecosystem health. Connecting and interpreting 360 weak signals to anticipate incidents and identify actions to prevent them.
• Manage incidents, orchestrate crisis management and leverage learnings to improve and reinforce the framework.

Metrics and observability:

• Create, structure, and orchestrate the contribution of all resources involved in those topics, from policies to technical development, operational execution and communication, including people from transversal teams across Ubisoft such as Security Risk Management, Customer Relationship Center, Legal, Corporate Communications and Player Safety.
• Maintain a strategic posture on policies and practices alignment and evolution, drive tech and tools roadmaps tactically, and ensure efficient process execution, incident management and continuous improvement loops.

Governance and stakeholders' management:

• Lead, mentor and inspire a transversal team directly reporting to the role (Live Ops and Incident Management, Data Analysts, Live QA…).
• Pilot and orchestrate stakeholders' collaboration.
• Make clear-cut decisions both in proactive and reactive mode.
• Accountable for the team’s success and its value creation/positive ROI (including reporting to top management).

Qualifications:

What you bring:

Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in management or administration.

Relevant experience:

• Senior leadership profile (director level), with strong experience in the digital industry. Preferably a mix of first-hand experience with challenging compliance contexts, live operations, team management, and stakeholders’ management.
• Strong decision-making abilities.
• Combination of analytical/ROI, leadership and influence skillset.
• Multidisciplinary approach and 360 problem solving and decision-making. Understanding of both technical, operational, player experience and compliance challenges and constraints.

Additional Information:

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. Ubisoft values diverse perspectives to help both players and teams thrive and invites candidates passionate about innovation and entertainment to join their team.

They embrace a hybrid work model helping you stay connected with your team and aligned with business priorities, while giving you the opportunity to maintain your work-life balance. Note that some roles are fully office-based and are not eligible for hybrid work.