Craft:
Games Design & Production
Job Description:
We are looking for a detailed, self-organized, tech savvy person with strong skills and creative flair to handle projects for and within the Audio team.
This role requires experience in project management within the gaming industry. It involves collaboration with composers, sound designers, and audio engineers to deliver high-quality audio content that aligns with our games' vision and objectives.
Your talent in organization and communication will help align around timelines and goals. You will be asked to reach across teams within the company to bring together the information and influence partnerships with games teams including game creatives, game producers, release managers, tooling teams and developers.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the head of audio and the composers to help coordinate the production in line with the audio vision.
- Work closely with our audio software engineer to identify bottlenecks, tech needs (pipelines and tooling), and liaise with TDs across different games and engines.
- Liaise with game teams' designers/producers, devs and marketing teams to identify the audio scopes, to drive the audio production schedules, ensuring timely delivery of audio content across all games.
- Facilitate cross field communications and collaborations with our partners, such as Dev Services, our proprietary engine team, and Legal to advance audio topics.
- Work closely with our outsourcing audio production partner to help deliver the demand for audio content.
- Support the information flow between the audio team and its collaborators.
- Support the production of audio schedules and budgets.
- Support the planning and prioritization inside the audio team to best meet the needs of the games.
- Where possible improve pipelines, methods and the appropriate use of skills within the team to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the audio production.
Key skills and experience:Experience:
- Proven track record in a gaming studio as a producer or in a producer/project management capacity.
- Minimum of 2 games published or 2 live games.
- In-depth knowledge of the audio production workflow in gaming.
- Good understanding of (mobile) game development.
- Fair understanding of audio middleware such as Wwise.
- Experience with commercial or proprietary game engines.
- Experience facilitating cross team partnerships.
- Validated ability to run projects across multiple teams.
Skills to build thrills:- Strong project management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interpret and discuss technical and general audio topics with a wider audience of collaborators.
- Good proven understanding of resource management and project planning software - JIRA or similar (Monday, Trello, Smartsheet).
- Understanding of standard audio creation software - REAPER, Pro Tools, Audition.
Nice-to-have Skills:- Music composition, Sound design/sound editing skills would be effective.
- Familiarity with Python scripting, and the basics of C++ programming.
- Experience with implementing assets into games using game development tools, pipelines and technology.
Attributes:- Highly organized with attention to detail
- Capable of prioritizing in a lively environment
- Show growth mindset
- Have a passion for games and audio
- Be resolved and open-minded
- Driven by quality, creativity, and innovation
About King At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.
Making the World Playful Making the World Playful is our mission - it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun?
Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren't the only ones that can level-up. We're always looking for ways to champion each other and make what's already great, even better.
So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.
Applications need to be in English.
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