Senior Sound Designer

Description

Purpose of Job:

As a Senior Sound Designer at Side Montreal, your responsibilities will be crafting, developing, producing and integrating the sound environment for video games and other visual media and may include leading projects and mentoring team members.

You will lead in sound and display your passion for video games which will enable you to build captivating soundscapes, providing players and spectators with an immersive experience. You will play a key role in bringing the creative vision to life, working in collaboration with audio staff and the game design team.

Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and editing top quality sound assets for use in video games, trailers and other visual media, in respect to the project’s style and creative direction.
• Designing systems, through a deep understanding of middleware and game engines, allowing for dynamic mixing hierarchies and audio systems in both stereo and surround environments, in collaboration with the game design teams.
• Leading projects in planning, organizing sound design-related content, working closely with the creative director and project managers.
• Integrating sound assets in audio middleware (Wwise, FMOD) and game engines (Unreal, Unity, custom game engines).
• Syncing and mixing audio to linear media.
• Testing, finding and fixing audio related bugs.
• Understanding basic scripting as it pertains to game audio and workflow improvement.
• Working collaboratively, attend meetings with the team and external partners.
• Contributing to documentation, project tracking and procedures.

Senior responsibilities:

• Provide mentorship and coaching to team members.
• Offer regular feedback and support professional development by monitoring and evaluating performance.
• Support in making informed decisions that impact operations and overall performance within the team.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Assist in the onboarding of new team members and ensure they are integrated smoothly into the business.
• Build and maintain strong relationships within the business.

Other:

• Adhere to company Security, Confidentiality and Health and Safety procedures and ensure the compliance of the team.
• Adhere to the company IT and HR procedures and ensure the compliance of the team.
• Understand ethical behaviour and business practices, and ensure that own behaviour and the behaviour of others is consistent with these standards and aligns with the values of the organisation.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Substantial experience in game sound design working in key positions for major projects that have shipped.
• Advanced knowledge in sound creation and highly proficient in using a DAW (Reaper or Pro Tools), in sync with visual material.
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the audio pipeline working with middleware and can execute advanced integration tasks in at least one game engine (UE5 preferably).
• Proficiency working with spreadsheets and collaboration tools, such as Confluence, Jira and Trello).
• Proficiency working with source controls (Git, SVN, Perforce).
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience in supporting, and mentoring team members.
• Working closely with other disciplines on the team to improve workflows and achieve vision for the game.
• You are passionate about video games.