Associate Sound Designer

Description

The World of Warcraft Sound team is looking for an associate level sound designer. The ideal candidate must possess great enthusiasm, demonstrate a willingness to learn and have a true passion for and desire to work in game audio. The associate sound designer works closely with the game audio supervisor and producer and will be working in conjunction with other members of the WoW sound design team in order to complete their tasks. Through this process the candidate will learn and improve skillsets in commercial and proprietary software and the tools required to perform the assigned tasks. In addition, the candidate will gain experience and grow proficiencies in various forms of sound content creation processes and manipulation techniques including: sound design & editing, voiceover editing & processing, music editing, conforming sound to picture, and game audio implementation. This person must be comfortable working in a highly dynamic professional studio environment and interfacing with other designers, actors, artists, producers.

Requirements

• Strong passion for designing fantasy based sounds for a massively multiplayer online game.
• Strong desire to learn cutting edge sound design techniques and growing their own skillset.
• Strong desire to continuously bring otherworldly creatures, environments and spells to life.
• Moderate experience using a digital audio workstation (Pro Tools, Nuendo, Ableton, etc..).
• Basic engineering skills necessary to help set up and prepare for voice recording sessions.
• Some experience recording sound in the field utilizing portable field recorders.
• Some experience recording sound in a controlled studio environment (Foley).
• Must be comfortable working in a professional recording studio environment.
• Must understand modern recording techniques and signal processing equipment.
• Must be comfortable with direct supervision of their work by audio lead and fellow designers.
• Basic knowledge of editing, conforming and mixing sound-to-picture.
• Experience using and troubleshooting both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
• Must understand the role that sound plays in helping create player immersion and the furthering of a storyline.

Pluses

• Experience playing World of Warcraft and knowledge of the existing soundscape of the game.
• Development experience working on sound for a published game title.