Sound Designer

Playrix is a leading mobile game development company, ranking first in Europe and top 3 worldwide by revenue, with 2.3 billion installations and over 30 million daily players. The Sound Designer will be responsible for checking, integrating, and configuring sounds in FMOD and the Playrix Engine, editing audio libraries, maintaining asset lists, and collaborating with the game design team.

Must Have

• Experience configuring sounds and music in games, OR experience as a technical game designer with a strong desire to develop into a sound designer role
• Knowledge of audio engineering/sound design fundamentals (editing, layering, frequency/dynamic processing, creating depth)
• Proficiency in any DAW (Cubase, Reaper, Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools, etc.) for basic tasks
• Understanding of the game content creation pipeline/processes

Good to Have

• Experience working with FMOD or Wwise
• A portfolio of completed game projects
• Experience as a sound designer/technical sound designer in game projects

Perks & Benefits

• Opportunity for continuous professional development and mentoring
• Access to unlimited resources and leading specialists
• Participation in cross-product initiatives and new technologies (AI, ML)
• Freedom to optimize processes and approaches
• Flexible schedule and remote work from anywhere (except Russia and Belarus)
• Voluntary health insurance for employees and children
• Reimbursement for online psychologist sessions
• Fully paid vacation days and sick leave, with additional days off in certain circumstances
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions
• Paid participation in specialized conferences and courses, internal conferences
• Discounts on English language courses and other company operating languages
• Regular offline events (team meetings, corporate parties, office parties)
• Online competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and fitness challenges
• Merch store with internal currency for unique gifts

About the company

Playrix is ​​one of the most successful mobile game development companies in the world. In terms of mobile application revenue, we rank first in Europe and are in the top 3 worldwide. Our games have been installed 2.3 billion times (that's a third of the world's population!) and more than 30 million people around the world play them every day.

Tasks

• Checking source files upon receipt from sound designers
• Integrating and configuring sounds in FMOD and the Playrix Engine
• Editing sounds from the provided audio libraries
• Maintaining project asset lists and sound libraries
• Working in close collaboration with the game design team

Requirements

• Experience configuring sounds and music in games, OR experience in the role of technical game designer + a strong desire to develop toward a sound designer role
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of audio engineering and/or sound design (sound editing, layering, frequency processing, dynamic processing, creating depth)
• Knowledge of any DAW (Cubase, Reaper, Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools, etc.), and the ability to perform basic tasks within it
• An understanding of the game content creation pipeline/processes

Preferred

• Experience working with FMOD or Wwise
• A portfolio of completed game projects
• Experience as a sound designer/technical sound designer in game projects

We offer

• An opportunity for continuous professional development on an expert team of game designers and producers: we have a huge knowledge base and a mentoring system that allows you to adapt quickly.
• Virtually unlimited resources and access to leading specialists from any department to solve the most complex problems.
• Cross-product initiatives. For example, we are constantly experimenting with and introducing new technologies: AI to speed up pre-production and to calibrate the difficulty of levels using bots on neural networks, ML to introduce personalization of the gaming experience.
• The ability to move between areas and not only within one product (LiveOps development, new games in production, marketing creatives), and the opportunity to participate in the development of cross-product initiatives that reach the level of the entire company.
• The freedom to switch out processes and approaches for more efficient ones without lengthy approvals or bureaucracy.

Our Perks

Flexibility at work

• For most positions we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus). You can do your work however and wherever you like — we only evaluate your results.

Caring for health and well-being

• We provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist.
• We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave. In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off.
• We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.

Professional development and education

• We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
• We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates.

Events and merch

• We regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties.
• We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.
• We have a merch store with an internal currency you can use to buy unique gifts. We give out this currency as a gift for significant dates, and you can earn more by participating in events and company activities.

Work Format

• Remote or from one of the company’s offices