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Manager, Sound Design - VALORANT

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Description

As Manager of Sound Design reporting to the Audio Director, your logistical, creative, and technical skills will combine to create sound for a broad range of characters and experiences in our games. Joining efforts with a diverse team, you'll help drive projects from their inception. Using your passion, and creativity, you will help guide team decisions and provide valuable feedback to your peers. As a member of the audio discipline, you'll aim to find ways to teach and level up those around you while continuing to challenge yourself.
As a Manager of Sound Design on the Valorant Characters pod, you will manage a small team of audio discipline members to deliver sound design and voice over for Agents. You will help develop the audio vision, strategy and products for major features and areas of development, always keeping integrity and player satisfaction in mind. Your work and your team's work will help establish and push the quality bar of the product, and your peers and direct reports will learn and improve from your innovation in process.
Responsibilities
  • Sound design content creation and implementation for Valorant characters.
  • Record, edit, and design sound effects for game characters, new features, major systems, and other areas using industry standard methods and tools
  • Record sound effects both in studio and in the field using industry standard microphone techniques and hardware
  • Create sound design, voice-over processing and audio integration that enhances the vision and goals of the product
  • Create work proposals for the Characters pod including headcount, time estimates, and delivery / quality targets
  • Develop the audio strategy for a major piece of content, new feature or area of development.
  • Work with initiative/product leadership to establish specific sound design, voice over and music goals
  • Determine and manage audio goals, goals, timeline, etc. for their content team or product
  • Leverage sound design and VO content and implementation to communicate important gameplay information while maintaining integrity.
  • Manage sound designers and VO sound designers on the Characters pod.
  • Work with members of game design, narrative, and production teams to shape Valorant's VO triggering system
  • Manage outsourced audio content and implementation teams

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Audio/Music Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 5 years' minimum professional experience designing key audio systems, including planning, audio middleware implementation, and results validation
  • 1 years' minimum management experience.
  • Professional experience with iconic sound design for video games
  • Professional experience with testing and debugging implemented sounds within engine
  • Knowledge of sound design creation tools (DAWs, plugins, synths, etc.)
  • Knowledge of audio middleware (Wwise, FMOD, Miles, etc.)
  • Experience implementing audio in a game engine
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience implementing audio in Unreal Engine

Benefits & Perks

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

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Riot Games was founded in 2006 to change the way video games are developed, published, and supported for players. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of Riot's community and it’s for them that Riot continues to evolve the League experience, in-game and beyond. Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, Riot is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has 2,500+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide. Riot has been featured on numerous lists including Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” “25 Best Companies to Work in Technology,” “100 Best Workplaces for Millennials,” and “50 Best Workplaces for Flexibility.” Riot Games recruiters will never ask for money, request sensitive information, or conduct interviews through messenger. You can learn more about Riot’s interview process here: https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/interviewing-at-riot/interview-process

Job Details

Posted on Dec 13

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Full time

Senior