Lead Sound Designer London, England
Job description
Omeda Studios are a remote-first game studio working on our first title Predecessor, a fast-paced third-person MOBA for PC and consoles, due for release in 2022. Join a rapidly growing game studio as we scale up to support and deliver content for a game designed to be played for years to come.
As a studio founded by the community, developing games that players will love is truly at the heart of what we do. At Omeda Studios, we believe that community feedback is integral to the development of games that players will not want to put down.
Having recently closed a $20m Series A funding round, we've populated the studio with an exciting mix of industry veterans and community talent and we want you to be a part of shaping and executing our vision and the challenges that await us.
We need an experienced Lead Sound Designer like you to champion the Sound discipline. As a Lead Sound Designer for Predecessor, you will work with producers, designers, artists, and engineers to deliver high-quality audio that engages and connects to the players.
In This Role You Will
- Empower and support your team to deliver the highest audio quality possible by providing direction and leadership
- Help to set ambitious goals and improve by challenging ideas, form a positive relationship with the team to bring out the best results
- Collaborate with the leads from other areas to create a shared vision and roadmap for the game
- Participate in setting and ensuring performance metrics and quality bars
- Provide feedback to group audio reviews to make sure the team works meets the quality of standard required and is in line with the audio vision
- Build and encourage an open feedback culture ensuring a lean feedback cycle and strong ability to collaborate within the team.
- Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty: record, edit, and design sound effects
- Build strong audio features, systems, and other areas using competitive industry techniques and tools
What We're Looking For
- At least 2 years of experience in a leadership role working on an in-house project
- Worked on at least 2 AA+ PC/Console titles
- Expertise in the holistic game audio process (Sound Design, Voice Over, Music Implementation, Technology, Player Experience, etc.)
- Experience with sound design tools such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Reaper, Ableton, Waves plugins, etc, high level of implementation between exporting assets from DAW to the game engine
- Experience with voice over processing tools and techniques
- Experience with audio middleware Wwise, Fmod
- Experience within the Unreal Engine, creating blueprints or similar visual scripting
- Organisation skills, autonomous along with the ability to anticipate risks for the audio pipeline
Nice To Haves
- Experience with MOBAs or shooter games
- Background in music theory or music production
Benefits
- Global, remote team
- 33 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays
- EMI Stock Options
- Healthcare
- More to come!
