Lead Technical Audio Designer

Cloud Chamber is looking for a Lead Technical Audio Designer to manage  a multidisciplinary audio team. Working closely with the Audio Director you will take ownership of our audio system design, technical best practices and associated content. Your technical skill will facilitate team success by defining and maintaining the audio systems and content needed to deliver on the vision for an ambitious AAA narratively-driven FPS project full of character and personality.

Job Duties: 

• Lead the team in planning, organizing, creating, implementing and maintaining all audio-related systems and associated content.
• Ensure creative and technical alignment with the audio director, the audio engineering team and audio content teams to help you execute and help define the details of the project technical audio direction, and the Wwise and Unreal best practices.
• Ensure that all audio assets are created, integrated, mixed to specifications and follow best practices.
• Ensure audio systems, tools, workflows are well designed, refined and documented to maximize quality and use of resources.
• Drive the creative and technical kick-off and review process and oversee the work of other audio team members contributing to areas of ownership.
• Give clear technical feedback to help people grow and align.
• Ensure that the team works effectively in various surround formats.
• Ensure best practices and technical audio design knowledge is shared among the technical audio design team.
• Be a central point of communication between the wider team and the technical audio design team and advocate for the technical audio design team to the wider team.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key collaborators.
• Coordinate and lead meetings.
• As a leader in the audio department, ensure that you and your team are an example to others of company values.
• Coordinate technical audio design outsourcing.
• Mentor/Coach team members in technical audio design.
• Proactively deal with problems and risks.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• At least 5 years experience in AAA technical audio.
• At least 1 AAA project shipped in a technical design role.
• A passion for game audio.
• Strong, diplomatic communication and meeting facilitation skills.
• Reliable, dependable and able to humbly take on authority.
• Solid organizational and time management skills.
• Advanced understanding and experience of UE5, Blueprints, Wwise and technical audio systems.
• Advanced audio control logic design & scripting ability.
• Strong knowledge of DAWs such as Pro Tools and Reaper, as well as sample editors and plug-ins.
• Strong understanding of theoretical and practical audio engineering principles & techniques.
• Highly detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and able to embrace change for a fast-growing organization.
• Ability to partner with a diverse group of personalities effectively and constructively.
• The ability to problem-solve and prioritize issues while developing a production pipeline
• Mature outlook on work ethics and responsibilities.
• Champion of high standards, pushing for progress, embracing change, and challenging the status quo.
• Able to respond elegantly to difficult creative changes, often late in the process.
• A positive force multiplier with a great team-player attitude. 
• Self-motivated, curious, and collaborative.
• Flexible and collaborative mindset and attitude.
• Uncompromising ethics and unwavering integrity.
• Willing to uphold the values of Cloud Chamber.

**Please include a demo with your application showcasing your sound design and/or technical implementation experience.**

We are Cloud Chamber: a collaborative team of inspired minds who create games together. We strive to make unique, entertaining, and thoughtful game experiences that engage the world. 

We believe in the beauty and strength of diversity, in both the makeup of the studio and the nature of our thinking. Our focus on open communication and overall well-being allows each of us to strive for excellence in our work, and happiness in our lives.

We’re currently making the next BioShock. Our passion and love for this iconic franchise is what brought us together. The thrill and responsibility of creating the next iteration of such a beloved game is what keeps us going.

If all of this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us we’d love to meet you! Join us in creating worlds that move people.

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