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 …