Description
Audio Director
Deck Nine Games is looking for a creative and technical
Audio Director with the capability to design and implement assets, lead the
audio efforts for our project, and specialize in key audio systems.
Our narrative-driven projects require a wide array of
knowledge and high collaboration with other gifted creatives, to deliver an
engaging video game experience. The Audio Director will directly manage a team
of Audio Designers to design engaging sound effects, record and implement
quality V.O., and oversee integration of a captivating score and music.
Responsibilities
- Encourage a culture of respect, support, collaboration,
comradery, and creativity throughout the audio team and beyond.
- Manage a team of audio designers, providing guidance and
feedback on audio quality, consistency, and implementation.
- Collaborate with creative directors, game directors, and
other key stakeholders to define game audio quality bar and vision.
- Work with team leads and production to ensure audio staff
are represented in all strike teams throughout development, and that they are
fully scheduled and tasked.
- Manage music direction for the project, owning licensed
music selection, coordinating with artists/composers producing score, and
integrating all music for an alluring gaming experience.
- Oversee, develop, and document project pipelines and
onboard new audio team members.
Qualifications
- At least 5+ years of experience in a leadership role for
game audio, involved with full development cycles of multiple shipped titles
preferred.
- Comprehensive understanding and practical experience in
every facet of game audio production, including experience with Wwise
across multiple full development cycles.
- Expert understanding of Foley, recording, mixing, sound
design, implementation, scripting voice over, and localization techniques and
best practices.
- Proven experience working and coordinating with game
developers from different disciplines.
- Familiarity with the different kinds of production and
implementation of music in a game engine, from looping tracks to linear pieces
and stingers.
- Sound design portfolio or reel
- Organized leadership skills in an environment of
competing priorities and time management
- Full-time position must be willing to eventually relocate
to the Denver, Colorado region
Bonus Qualifications
- A Bachelor's degree or higher in an audio related field.
- Experience working on narrative-driven games with
emergent audio features and systems, including branching conditionalized
sequences (e.g. dialogue branches).
- Experience using Unreal Engine and Blueprints on at least
one full development cycle.
- Music composition experience for a visual medium
(portfolio/samples preferred)
- Relevant television/film experience
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- Generous PTO including paid parental leave
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your
family
If you are a talented and passionate game developer and
you are looking to challenge yourself, please apply today! Full-time position
available, remote to start but with ability to relocate and applicants must
already be authorized to work in the U.S.
About Deck Nine
Deck Nine Games is an independent game developer
dedicated to crafting interactive story games that inspire, transform, and
entertain players. Our passion is storytelling games.
Our first narrative game, Life is Strange: Before the
Storm is loved by fans and has won multiple awards, including Game of Year and
was nominated for both a VGA and a BAFTA. The studio is 100+ people and is in
sunny Westminster, Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains. We hope to
share more information about our next title with Square Enix as soon as we can.
We’re looking for talented and self-motivated people to
join us as we aim to rise to the top of the storytelling game studios. If this
sounds appealing to you, please apply!
As the crafters of stories that encompass the full
breadth of life’s experiences, Deck Nine is committed to building a diverse,
inclusive, and multicultural team in which people from all walks of life feel
inspired to do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity
employer and believe deeply in the creativity and strength built from diversity
of race, religion, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
orientation, nationality, and the many other qualities that make us different.