Sledgehammer Games is looking for a passionate and experienced game Sound Designer to help create a fresh new AAA aural experience for our next project. You will be involved in virtually every aspect of game audio content development alongside one of the most passionate and experienced audio teams in the industry.

Sledgehammer Games, the Developers of: Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare, was founded with a singular goal: Achieve Excellence, while making and having fun! We have a state of the art facility, an industry leading development team, and a studio culture built to promote and support world class game developers. If you are passionate and driven to do your best work, and have a desire to work on the most successful FPS franchise in the history of video games, please apply online.

Duties and responsibilities
• Interactive and linear sound effects design
• Real-time audio scripting
• Audio asset implementation
• Mixing & mastering
• Field recording
• Dialog processing
• Music editing
• Audio tools & run-time systems design collaboration

Requirements
• Demonstrated creative and technical achievements in sound design
• Minimum 1 year of experience in game audio development
• Fluency in game audio implementation systems
• Experience in game audio scripting or other relevant programming environments
• Understanding of PS4, XBOX One, and PC audio functionality, capabilities, and limitations
• Experience with major digital audio workstations, and power-user of at least one
• Solid understanding of technical audio theory and audio engineering
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Exceptional organization skills

Nice to have
• FPS/Multi-player experience a plus
• Experience with Radiant game development software a plus

Education
• College degree preferred
• Continuing Education Certificate, Professional or advanced degree in audio engineering, music, or similar preferred

KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Sound Designer to help develop exciting new family-focused video games for mobile and tablet devices. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 50 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities
• Create, implement, and manage various types of sound effects
• Edit, process, manage, and implement dialog
• Ability to work individually and collectively with an experienced team of sound designers in a creative and fast paced environment

Requirements
• Associate’s Degree in a related field
• 3+ years experience in game industry
• Firm understanding of audio design principles and processing techniques
• Working knowledge of a Digital Audio Workstation such as Reaper or Pro Tools
• Creative and inventive with the use source material
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Able to learn, iterate, and be flexible
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned
• Experience in creating magical, combat, vocal, sci-fi, and environmental sound effects

Preferences
• Experience working in a game editor
• Mobile device/MMO/Mobile game experience
• Orchestral composition and arrangement skills
• Experience with dialog editing and field recording
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

Considerations
• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• Salaries will be commensurate with experience
• Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle
• This job is located in Austin, Texas

The Sound Designer, Podcasts is a creative design position fully responsible for the production of WBUR broadcast quality audio through digital and/or analog audio editing and mixing. Working both independently and in collaboration with podcast producers, the Sound Designer, Podcasts edits and mixes podcasts for WBUR’s iLab, a podcast incubator that generates, implements, and develops brand new podcasts. Record and mix promotional announcements, and design other material as assigned by the Manager of Podcast Productions. Must have first rate engineering skills plus an imaginative/creative approach to audio production and sound design for media. Must be able to envision and shape the ideas producers propose for each piece; since this will require an ability to work conceptually without a defined structure, the development of each piece will be an ongoing conversation between the Sound Designer and producers rather than a set of directives. As such, clear communication and interpretive skills are critical.

Required Skills
• BA/BS degree and a minimum of 3-5 years of related experience required
• Must have experience with sophisticated audio production and sound design

Job Location
• Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Position Type
• Full-Time/Regular

Salary
• Grade 72

Temporary position – duration of approximately 3 months as of May 1st, 2017

The ideal candidate will have to
• Manage assigned text loc and audio projects from project initiation through release to operation
• Define, prioritize, track and manage requirements and deliverables
• Drive issue resolution and address contingencies in a timely manner
• Develop and maintain complex localization schedules and assign resources as required
• Create, track, and adhere to project budgets, schedules, and timelines. Expose, report on, and resolve deviations and variances. Ensure all projects are completed within designated timeframes
• Closely monitor financial status of localization projects, including creating accurate estimates, setting up project budget, tracking vendor contracts and invoices, performing financial closure at project end, and identifying and correcting budget overruns
• Develop project strategies and plans
• Proactively communicate with clients regarding project status, queries from translators, and other issues
• Identify, assign, schedule, supervise and train team members for projects (translators, reviewers, recording studios, sound engineers, voice directors)
• Prepare and distribute reports for clients and internal colleagues regarding status of projects
• Organize and lead project meetings
• Contribute to project management and cross-company initiatives, task-forces and general process improvements

Skills & experience required
• Excellent organizational/coordination abilities
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to lead the project and the team
• Ability to cope under pressure and to work to tight deadlines
• Good analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent English, additional language is a plus (Chinese preferred)
• At least 2-3 years of experience in a similar position (international experiences are welcome)
• Advanced use of MS Office (Excel in particular)
• Ability to manage recording script, character breakdown, audio asset, audio tools
• Ability to work with recording studios, voice directors, actors… etc.
• Ability to manage glossaries, translations and QAs
• Ability to work with CAT tools

Additional skills
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups or activities
• Ability to plan and prioritize tasks
• Ability to focus on client’s needs and expectations
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to establish good relationships with all team members
• Flexible approach to people, projects, and assignments
• Knowledge of ProTools or other DAW is a plus
• Knowledge of game audio industry scenario and workflows