Paramount

Manager, Sound Design, Audio Engineering

Paramount

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Los Angeles • California • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $80,000 - $90,000 per year

About the role

  • Lead all sound design and mixing across Paramount Creative and Strategy projects including editorial, motion graphics, screens, brand, social, presentation, experiential, and internal communications
  • Build detailed soundscapes, custom sound effects, environmental textures, and audio treatments that elevate storytelling and design in both long form and short form content
  • Deliver fast turnaround mixes and sound design for social media, short form campaigns, and rapid response creative
  • Create dynamic and impactful audio for sizzles, sales tapes, recaps, and high energy internal or external business content
  • Direct voice over sessions, interviews, talent records, and in room sessions
  • Record clean production sound on set including interviews, dialogue, ambience, and effects
  • Maintain and troubleshoot all audio hardware, software, plug ins, musical instruments, electronic instruments, and workstations
  • Oversee audio workflows, deliverable standards, session organization, versioning, archiving, and technical consistency
  • Collaborate closely with editors, motion designers, producers, screens teams, creative directors, and executive team
  • Manage junior audio support, freelancers, and external vendors
  • Deliver polished mixes for linear playback, looping environments, adaptive installations, large format displays, social platforms, and multi-platform outputs
  • Maintain and grow organized sound effect libraries, sample libraries, instrument libraries, and audio databases
  • Support innovation by incorporating modern workflows, new tools, and evolving AI assisted sound practices

Requirements

  • 5-7+ years professional experience in sound design, audio engineering, and mixing for visual media
  • Expert proficiency in Pro Tools, Logic, and modern plug-in ecosystems
  • Strong understanding of signal flow, microphones, recording techniques, audio repair tools, noise reduction, cleanup workflows, mixing, mastering, and gain staging
  • Experience capturing production audio across a variety of environments including studios, offices, remote locations, and field settings
  • Creative instincts for pacing, rhythm, short form punch, long form immersion, and sound driven storytelling
  • Experience directing talent and managing organized voice over sessions
  • Impressive communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams
  • Highly organized with attention to detail and the ability to work accurately and professionally under deadlines
  • Ability to compose original music in a variety of styles
  • Experience adapting musical ideas to editorial, motion, and design driven content
  • Working knowledge of musical instruments including keyboards, guitars, percussion, and other studio instruments
  • Strong comfort with electronic instruments, drum machines, digital samplers, modular tools, and modern software based instruments
  • Understanding of virtual instruments, sample libraries, synthesizers, sound creation, and composition workflows
  • Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere or After Effects
  • Ability to support simple animation, timing adjustments, transitional elements, or audio driven visual tasks
  • Experience with modern creative tools such as Runway, Sora, or Eleven Labs
  • Familiarity with integrating audio into design, editorial, motion, and screens pipelines
  • Experience using 3D tools such as Blender or Cinema 4D
  • Comfort working alongside AI assisted creative workflows and hybrid post production environments
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401(k) plan
  • life insurance coverage
  • disability benefits
  • tuition assistance program
  • PTO
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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