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Sound Designer
София

The Role

Aristocrat Interactive seeks a creative Sound Designer with experience in online gaming, gambling products, and marketing materials, who is diligent and meticulous. The successful candidate will bring outstanding expertise in sound design for interactive experiences, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, optimised sound assets.

 

Responsibilities:

Sound Design for All Product Streams:

Build, implement, and manage high-quality sound effects and audio assets for online gaming products, marketing materials, and game trailers. Ensure the audio improves gameplay, storytelling, and marketing objectives.

Deliver on Creative Vision:

Collaborate with Producers, Developers, and AD’s to interpret and implement the desired audio vision, ensuring the final sound assets align with the overall artistic and gameplay direction.

Optimization of Sound Files:

Ensure all sound files are optimised for performance, reducing load times and memory usage without compromising sound quality. Leverage techniques such as compression, efficient file formats, and middleware solutions to achieve this balance.

Adherence to Departmental Processes:

Follow established production pipelines and processes, ensuring that all audio assets are well-documented, accurately coordinated, and carry out to project guidelines. Work within Aristocrat Interactive audio structure and supply to improving workflows.

Industry Awareness & Competitor Research:

Maintain a strong understanding of current industry trends and competitor products in online gaming and interactive audio. Stay up-to-date on new sound technologies and techniques that can improve our products.

Meet Deadlines & Milestones:

Work efficiently within the constraints of production schedules, ensuring that all audio deliverables are completed on time and to the highest standard. Demonstrate excellent time management and organisational skills across multiple projects.

Collaborate with Collaborators:

Foster and maintain positive relationships with collaborators, such as Producers, Creative Leads, and Marketing teams. Engage in regular communication to ensure alignment and transparency throughout the project lifecycle.

Implement & Respond to Feedback:

Collaborate with internal teams and collaborators constructively, making revisions and adjustments where vital to refine and improve the audio design.

Transparency of Progress:

Give clear and timely updates to collaborators on the progress of sound design work. Ensure that all team members have access to key achievements and completion rates, addressing potential issues early.

Sound Integration:

Integrate sound assets into game engines using proprietary in-house software and optimise for performance. Work with developers to script sound behaviour within the game.

Qualifications:

Software Proficiency:

Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs): Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton Live

Audio Editing & Mastering: iZotope RX, Waves

Middleware & Audio Integration: FMOD, Wwise

Game Engines: Unity, Unreal Engine

Version Control: Perforce, Git

Output Variation:

The creative ability to compose music to a wide variety of musical styles.

Sound File Optimization:

Experience in optimising audio assets for performance, utilising efficient file formats (such as OGG, MP3, and WAV) and compression techniques to maintain sound quality while minimising load times and memory usage.

Creative & Technical Skills:

Ability to combine creativity with technical precision, producing engaging audio that enhances the user experience while adhering to platform limitations and performance standards.

Communication & Collaboration:

Strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate clearly with developers, designers, producers, and marketing teams. Able to communicate thoughts effectively and collect feedback from various collaborators.

Problem Solving & Initiative:

Proactively identify potential audio-related issues, troubleshooting effectively and providing timely solutions that minimise project impact.

Industry Knowledge:

Strong understanding of online gaming, gambling industry products, and marketing trends. A keen sense of what works in competitive sound design and awareness of what competitors are producing.

Aware of:

 

The gaming industry in general.

Current trends and developments in their creative field.

Travel Expectations

None

Additional Information

Depending on the nature of your role, you may be required to register with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.