Senior Technical Sound Designer
Job Summary
Job Description
Rovio, part of the SEGA family and known for Angry Birds, seeks a Senior Technical Sound Designer for its award-winning audio team. The role involves implementing audio content for game projects, supporting adaptive audio systems, and improving pipelines and workflows. You will collaborate with audio craft leads and other departments to define the sound of game projects. Responsibilities include project management, ensuring timely delivery of audio content with agreed quality, defining overall project audio direction, managing roadmaps and documentation, and supervising external partners. Content responsibilities include implementing technical sound design, authoring audio middleware, and bug fixing/optimization. The position requires extensive game development experience, including at least one shipped title, solid experience in the mobile gaming industry, and excellent understanding of the game audio process.
Must have:
- Extensive game development experience
- Shipped game title experience
- Mobile gaming industry experience
- Understanding of game audio process
- C# or relevant programming skills
- Unity game engine knowledge
- Audio middleware knowledge
- DAW skills and plugins
- Self-management skills
- Organizational skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Interpersonal communication skills
5 skills required
Job Details
Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.
Rovio's award-winning audio team defines how our games and products sound and how audio should be used at Rovio. We are extremely passionate about all things revolving around audio and we pride ourselves in creating immersive and emotionally engaging adaptive audio experiences.
As a Senior Technical Sound Designer you will be responsible for implementing various audio content for our game projects. You will be expected to support our adaptive audio systems and improve our pipelines and workflows. You will collaborate closely with our audio craft leads and have the chance to work with all departments to build and define how our game projects should sound like.
This position is based in Espoo, Finland and follows a hybrid work model with two on-site days per week. Not currently in Finland? No problem, we offer relocation support.
You will have impact and fun at work by doing:
- Help ensure that all projects and their updates are delivered on time with the agreed identity, quality and other specs.
- Help define overall project audio direction (identity, creative, tech etc.)
- Keep project roadmaps, tasks and documentation up-to-date and actively communicate changes to relevant collaborators.
- Help manage project priorities and scopes.
- Supervise external partners.
- Responsible for following the given direction, design and quality of technical sound design content (scripts, tools etc.)
- Help with audio content implementation and middleware authoring together with other collaborators.
- Help with bug fixing and optimisation together with other collaborators.
Project Management:
Content:
Experience and skills we are looking for:
- Extensive experience in game development and have at least one shipped game title under your belt.
- Solid experience working in the mobile gaming industry.
- Excellent understanding of the whole game audio process.
- Solid understanding of C# or other relevant programming skills.
- Good knowledge and knowhow of Unity game engine.
- Excellent knowledge and knowhow of common audio middlewares.
- Solid DAW skills and knowledge of industry-standard plugins.
- Excellent self-management, organisational, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.
At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at recruitment@rovio.com.
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