Supervising Sound Designer

About the job

Our sound department is looking for a supervising sound designer to work on the next generation of our games. This candidate needs to have extensive experience with weapons, sound design, and environmental audio. The supervising sound designer will work closely with game producers, artists, and designers in bringing their characters, creatures, and environments to life. The supervising sound designer also contributes to a game's user interface, in order to give players feedback on their gaming experience. This candidate is responsible for helping set the vision and direction for all sound efforts, as well as manage other sound designers. The ideal candidate is able to collaborate with game designers in making an audio experience that compliments and melds seamlessly with game-play. The ideal candidate should also have an outstanding ability to not only create excellent, original content, but to successfully integrate it into the final product --working with other designers, actors, artists, producers, and programmers to make sure that great concepts make the transition from the microphone to the game on the shelves.

Requirements

• Proven skills and a unique artistic "voice" in terms of communicating and furthering a storyline via the medium of sound
• Experience specifically in creating outstanding soundscapes and sound assets for games
• Focus on weapons and related sound design / implementation in a complex soundscape
• Experience doing live recording sessions in the studio and in the field
• Proven ability to direct and coordinate the work of others, both artistically and logistically
• Experience creatively producing sound effects, backgrounds, and foley for games and / or animation
• Experience editing and conforming sound-to-picture
• Experience mixing in stereo and surround-sound formats
• Experience working with both commercial and proprietary audio, and implementation tools on multiple platforms and workstations, including Pro Tools
• Able to work with equal effectiveness, both solo and as part of a project team
• Experience using and troubleshooting Windows and Macintosh operating systems
• Game audio production credits on at least 5 major, shipped titles
• Experience developing games that use Wwise

Pluses

• Development experience with MMO's
• "Building Block DSP" such as Kyma, Max / MSP or Reaktor expertise
• Voice casting / direction experience
• Background in music production (music composition is not within the scope of this job)
• Computer-readable or level-design style scripting or light programming knowledge
• Console game implementation
Company Description

We are a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. After establishing the Entertainment label in 1994, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, we have maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception.

No third party applications.