Senior/Principal Audio Designer
Frontier Developments
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Delivering and implementing complex game audio assets independently and in line with the game direction
- Holding the vision of an audio project pillar and aiding the Lead in managing the work on time
- Helping Leads and Audio Producers identify features and break these down into tasks
- Owning all communication necessary to deliver feature areas, facilitating and managing cross-discipline collaboration to achieve alignment manage bottlenecks
- Collaborating with developers across the project and within the audio team to design and implement immersive and informative audio features, consistently considering user experience
- Working in the game and using debug, test-worlds and development tools to check implementations
- Mentoring, supervising, and guiding less experienced team members
- Managing smaller teams as a feature owner or on smaller-scale projects when required.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in game audio or sound design from a relevant adjacent field
- Experience of shipping several projects with extensive cross discipline (animation, UI etc.) involvement
- Strong understanding of interactive audio systems and game audio implementation.
- An expert level of ability and familiarity with DAWs (we use Reaper) and the integrated use of plug-ins
- Ability to hold and communicate a creative vision
- Ability to inspire others by example and the desire to raise the audio quality bar and the user experience.
Benefits
- success-based annual bonus
- share option schemes
- life assurance
- private family healthcare
- flexitime working hours
- enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- in-house subsidised catering
- support with relocation
- Cycle to Work scheme
- free bike servicing
- social activities and events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
game audiosound designinteractive audio systemsaudio implementationDAWsReaperaudio featuresdebuggingtestingproject management
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringsupervisionleadershipcreative visioninspirationuser experience focustask managementcross-discipline collaboration