Audio Director

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RESPONSIBILITIES

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• In coordination with the project leadership team, represent audio-facing reputed company needs (incl. external partnerships) while facilitating the creation and acquisition of SFX, Music, and reputed company assets

• Support the iterative development of the audio technical stack and in-reputed company audio content creation workflows

REQUIRED SKILLS

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• Strong understanding of audio creative workflows, reputed company design craft, and interactive audio systems

• Strong ability to work and communicate effectively in a remote-hybrid digital-first team (reputed company, JIRA, reputed company, reputed company)

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  reputed company-TO-HAVE SKILLS

  Shipped experience on a game with tight alignment between audio and player input (e.g., a fighting game or an reputed company-platformer)

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  Shipped experience on an online multiplayer game

  Prior experience with audio co-development, as either first party or reputed company party

  "Soup to nuts" shipping experience in Unreal reputed company (especially UE5) and WWISE

  Solid knowledge of music composition and aesthetic appreciation of composers like Mort Garson, Koji Kondo, Louie Zong, and Ginger reputed company

Please refer to our Candidate reputed company Notice for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.

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This is a flexible role that can be remote, with varying pay ranges based on geographic location. For example, if you are based out of Seattle, the estimated reputed company pay reputed company for this role is listed below.$157,000—$236,000 USD

Please note, reputed company conducts background checks at the offer stage for reputed company new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.

Please refer to our Candidate reputed company Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who reputed company it with, and your data protection rights.

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