Job description

At ArenaNet, we’ve always believed that games are art. They have the power to communicate ideas and tell stories. They can change the way we think, reflect our cultures, and move us. As the developer of the award-winning Guild Wars game series, we’re proud to share our passion for the online worlds we’ve created with over 21 million players worldwide.

ArenaNet develops and publishes games for every kind of person, which means our games need to be built by every kind of person. We believe the best experiences come from working together, celebrating differences, and helping each of our team members shine.

ArenaNet is looking for a talented and collaborative Music Lead to drive all music efforts for an unannounced title. In this role, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the highest quality music in all areas – helping shape the emotional tone of our worlds and delivering immersive, memorable experiences for players. You’ll lead the composition, recording, and implementation of all music assets, and manage external partnerships with composers, orchestrators, recording studios, and other vendors. As a key cross-functional collaborator, you’ll work closely with teams across design, narrative, cinematics, art, marketing, production, and beyond to ensure a cohesive and high quality experience for players and fans.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Drive music production across all phases of development in alignment with the Audio Director’s vision.
• Identify music opportunities and asset needs for in-game, promotional, and multimedia content in a self-driven and collaborative manner.
• Conceptualize, schedule, and produce high-quality music assets by working with and managing external vendors and partners.
• Design dynamic in-game music systems in close collaboration with audio, narrative, and design teams.
• Manage all vendor deliverables, reviews, and iteration with proper stakeholders.
• Edit music, create alternative arrangements, and implement all necessary music assets associated with a product using the necessary software.
• Work with the Audio Director to establish and execute the music vision for the game, ensuring alignment and cohesion with the rest of the soundscape and the design/narrative of the game.
• Catalog deliverables (past, present, and future) and establish standards to build a deep musical library for ArenaNet products.
• Manage and produce ancillary ArenaNet music products such as soundtracks.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Bachelor’s degree in Music or related field, or an equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in a music related role within the video game industry.
• Experience managing external vendors and outsourced audio content.
• Strong technical understanding of professional audio production tools and workflows, and experience overseeing orchestral recordings at a professional level.
• Experience shipping at least one high-quality game from concept through launch.
• Proven ability to collaborate across multiple disciplines on large-scale projects.
• Experience with audio implementation in game engines and designing complex, dynamic music or audio systems for video games.
• Familiarity with WWise and Unreal Engine 5 is a plus.
• Self-motivated and capable of executing high-level creative direction with minimal oversight.
• A team player who knows when and how to bring in cross-functional partners.
• Strong understanding of music and professional production techniques.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly express complex or nuanced ideas.

This role is remote-friendly, but we are currently prioritizing candidates who are local to the Bellevue, WA area and open to occasional onsite collaboration.

This is a hybrid position based out of our Bellevue, WA office.

Please note that the pay range listed in this job posting reflects the full salary range for this position. While we provide this range to offer transparency, our target hiring range typically falls between the minimum and the midpoint, allowing for growth potential within the role.

Total compensation is salary plus an annual bonus potential. When determining an offer amount, many things are taken into consideration such as qualifications, experience, internal equity and work location. We strive to provide competitive and equitable compensation packages to all our employees.

This role is also eligible for medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, 401(k), flexible and dependent care spending accounts, PTO, paid holidays and parental leave.

Bellevue pay range: $102,014 – $153,021 USD

Job description

Telling the stories of an entire Universe

Founded in 2012 by renowned game developer Chris Roberts, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) is one of the largest global independent studios, dedicated to delivering next-generation AAA games. CIG prides itself in thinking outside the box, encouraging creativity and developing ground-breaking technology. CIG believes in raising the bar for the gaming industry and the community as a whole.

About the Role:

We are looking for talented Junior Sound Designers to join our expanding audio team at Cloud Imperium Games, working onsite at our studio in Manchester. As part of the team you will record, design and implement audio for our Star Citizen and Squadron 42 projects in a cooperative and cross disciplinary environment. You’ll get the chance to create and implement AAA quality audio assets using a wide range of sound design methods and techniques.

What does a Junior Sound Designer at CIG do?

• Create and implement AAA quality audio assets using a wide range of sound design methods and techniques.
• Working in collaboration with the audio team and other disciplines to find efficient solutions to aesthetic needs (Wwise, Reaper, Lumberyard and any number of propriety tools).
• Plan and execute SFX recording either in the field or studio.

What do we expect from our Junior Sound Designers?

• Working knowledge of audio middleware tools and game engines such as Audiokinetic Wwise and Amazon Lumberyard etc.
• A proficiency with modern day audio software tools (Reaper, Izotope RX, Plugins).
• Clear and demonstrable skills in creative audio asset design and implementation.
• A good knowledge of field and studio recording e.g. SFX, Foley, Dialogue etc.
• A show-reel of relevant game-centric audio work.

Demo Reel
We are unable to assess candidates who do not submit a demo reel, and please note this is not a music composer position.

Please provide an up to date and relevant sound design demo reel displaying your creative and technical sound design skills e.g. linear sound design (sound design for a trailer, animation, gameplay capture) and game audio implementation (design and implement audio into any of the free game engines (Unity, Unreal, CryEngine).

Job description

Huawei’s Munich Research Center is responsible for advanced technology research, architectural development, design and strategic engineering of our products.

The Audiovisual Technology Laboratory in Huawei’s Munich Research Center is developing signal processing and machine learning solutions applied to audio, music and speech with the goal to enrich the audio experiences for millions of customers.

Join us as a Senior Research Engineer – Spatial Audio (m/f/d)

Your mission:

• Conduct applied research in spatial audio technologies, including 3D audio rendering, binaural audio, and immersive sound experiences for various applications
• Design, implement, and optimize systems for spatial audio capturing, processing and rendering
• Conduct objective and subjective evaluations to assess the performance of audio systems and algorithms and ensure an extraordinary user experience
• Collaborate with international teams to integrate spatial audio solutions into existing and new products
• Follow industry trends in audio technologies; identify and evaluate new solutions and technologies to be demonstrated to internal stakeholders
• Foster innovation by building and coordinating projects, internal/external collaborations and strategic partnerships

Your areas of expertise:

• PhD. or M.S. in Acoustical or Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Specialization and practical experience in at least one of the following:
• Audio signal processing for spatial audio, binaural hearing, microphone processing or speech enhancement
• Perception and 3D user experience
• Acoustic and system design for headphones and loudspeakers
• Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) applied to audio
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and the ability to translate user needs into design decisions
• Experience in project management and acting as interface between industry and academia is a plus;
• Independent and well-structured working style with a hands-on, can-do attitude
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Job description

Permanent

• Are you looking for a career in audio production or account management?
• Do you want to be in a role that will fulfil your potential and offer you responsibility and variety?
• Would you like to use your talent in a specialist audio company, that’s in a sector that is the place to be right now?
• This could be the perfect role for you!

The Company

We are an award-winning (Cinema Audio Society, Music & Sound, Promax UK, Vox, Campaign) world class leader in audio services, providing clients with a full offering to deliver any requirement needed in audio advertising, content or production across the globe.

We’re based in the UK and USA and our 8 studios in Central London are a center of excellence. We have creative, media, studios and digital under one roof and work on radio, Spotify and digital audio advertising, audio post for TV and films, audiobooks, podcasts, music, foreign dubbing, gaming and digital campaigns to support audio experiences.

Our clients include Spotify (we are their creative partner in the UK & North America), Acast, Netflix, Amazon, Cartoon Network, Disney, Guinness, Paddy Power Betfair, Audible and Penguin Random House.

We’re a mix of arty, geeky, techy, sporty, creative types who deliver exceptional products for our clients every single day.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us and we welcome your uniqueness. We are committed to developing the audio industry and its future talent. We’re an active supporter of initiatives to inspire, train and develop young talent and open our doors to introduce people into our industry.

In the last few years we’ve donated time and money to Macmillan Cancer Support, The Malaria Foundation and Crisis, and we intend to do a lot more. We’re big on culture, teamwork and growth opportunities, and we’ve got exciting plans for the future which we’d love you to be part of.

Our Values

We know it’s all about getting the mix just right…

1 – We’re on the same wavelength

• We’re one team
• We support each other
• We work together to achieve collective success

2 – We hear every pin drop

• We care about the details
• We deliver on what we promise
• We take responsibility

3 – We’re all ears

We care passionately about our clients
We provide exceptional customer service

We build long term partnerships

Our Culture – Defined By Our Team

We’re creative (standard). We’re honest and open. A swear jar would bankrupt us all. We’re all equal and we laugh at ourselves… and each other.

We’re unconventional, productive and we do whatever it takes to get the job done. We like burgers (meat, veggie and vegan).

We always make time for each other and our clients. We live and breathe audio. We’re people pleasers. We’re all very different and we love that about our team.

We praise each other and recognize achievements. We like going to the pub for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. We don’t quit, we fix. We’re kind and caring. We make a difference. We stick together and pick each other up when it’s needed.

We like to dance. We love karaoke. We say please and thank you. We’re passionate and motivated. We always leave our clients feeling good.

The Person We Are Looking For

You love audio and have a keen interest in getting to learn all aspects of audio advertising. You’ll have an interest in advertising or creative production as this position may lead to a career in account management or audio production.

You have a positive attitude, are open to learning and don’t get flustered when it’s busy. Organization and initiative will need to be in your DNA, you need to be really responsive to requests, energetic and confident.

Beyond client care, you will play an integral role in our production operations by providing administrative support to all teams, from account management to production.

You are a real people person, confident and outgoing. You need to be because you’ll be working with the audio team, other internal departments and external suppliers, and you’ll need to get the best out of them all.

You’re a stickler for detail and you’re big on process, efficiency and keeping systems up to date. You’re comfortable managing many different projects simultaneously. You don’t miss deadlines and are willing to go that extra mile to make sure of it. You buzz off working as part of a busy team that always delivers.

You’ll be a real team player and understand that you are part of a wider team that works together – being part of that is just as important as the work we deliver. You’ll be comfortable working with a remote team that is spread across the US East Coast and London.

You’re ambitious, driven and will add brilliance to our team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support for our US audio teams in every element of production.
• Create and manage production schedules
• Assist with financial billing and invoicing
• Assist with casting voiceovers and sourcing music options
• Quality checking of assets
• Review agency and supplier invoices for accuracy
• Assist with ad-hoc administrative and data entry tasks, as needed.

Essential Requirements

• An interest in audio (you don’t have to have experience, you’ll get that here!)
• Able to work hybrid with up to 3 days a week in office.
• A positive, can-do attitude
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Experience with the Google Workspace (Google Docs, Sheets, Slides)
• Good communication skills

Bonius Points

• Experience working with project management tools such as Monday.com and Asana
• Experience working with CRM tools for finance such as Zoho
• Fluency in other languages, particularly LATAM Spanish or Canadian French

Salary & Benefits

• $40,000 yearly salary
• $500 per month contribution to medical insurance policy
• Various training schemes
• 21 days of paid time off, plus 3 additional days to be taken during Christmas and New Years when the business is closed