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Audio Director
4 years ago
Job Description
The Audio Director is the owner of the audio experience: Vision and Quality.
The role has a major emphasis on management, creativity, technology, communication, problem solving and mitigation.
Several additional stakes:
- Games brand consistency
- Creating strong emotions, epic moments and appealing stories
- Time to market
- Leveraging our team talent and our technology
Creative objectives:
- Oversee, design and implement a rich audio experience, while conforming to the technical guidelines of the target platforms, for all components of the games: Virtual Worlds, Interfaces, Videos...;
- inspire the development teams, create a nice and inspiring place to work for our teams, in particular to experience the in-game audio;
- grow technical skills in the audio field and stay in touch with the latest industry technology, including preparing the Next Gen challenge;
- seek feedback from his/her peers and leads. Participate in meetings and reviews.
Business objectives:
- Promote the game, the team and build bridges with key partners including Editorial.
- Release of great marketing assets
- Ensure on time delivery for milestones, partnering with production and QC, as well as using project management tools and processes
Design and Project management:
- Drive the creation process of the ambiance, the dialogs, the music in game and in cinematics
- Participate in the Schedule and Identify dependencies & contingency plans based on scope and quality
- Ensuring strong partnership with designers, cinematic directors and level designers to nail quality and to be efficient
- Document processes and procedures in a precise way
Team management
- Ensure that team health is good for each report: regular 1 on 1s for every direct report. Manage reports with clears JDs and challenging Objectives to get the best out of the team. Drive employee engagement & retention
- Being the production representative in the team, therefore responsible for communicating and applying Production directives
- Problem and conflict solving
- Responsible of communicating the results of the team regularly
- Ensure close collaboration with the Montreal Dev Team: ONE TEAM
- Show exemplary commitment, even in critical situations
- Demonstrate leaderships, charisma, enthusiasm and commitment
- Ensure the development and professional training of his team
- Highlight and accommodate inter-team dependencies
For the studio and the group:
- The success of the project is the main objective, success also means growing the studio competencies
- Identify and promote the application of the best ideas and innovation
- Share experience, develop a Ubisoft culture
- Understand market trends and styles
Qualifications
- 10+ years of working experience in Audio, within the video gaming industry;
- 5+ years of working experience as Director;
- Software experience: Nuendo, Cubase, Reaper, Pro Tools, Sound Forge or Vegas;
- Hardware experience: audio interfaces, microphones, portable recorder;
- Work experience: voice recording, sound effects recording, music recording;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to comprehend on fast phase and complex game environments;
- Must be motivated and passionate about sound design and implementation
Plusses
- Strong gameplay instincts;
- Good knowledge of the game audio engines Wwise, FMOD, XACT, etc;
- Foley/Field recording experience
- C++ or similar audio programming languages
Additional Information
Perks
We realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games. Apart from a competitive compensation package and a culture that thrives on creativity and individuality, Ubisoft Singapore offers a wide variety of perks including performance based incentives, comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, flexible working hours, and opportunities for career development and learning.
Next step
Are you excited about creating the unknown? Are you serious about fun? Do you constantly seek out learning opportunities? At Ubisoft Singapore, we are looking for talent who are solution-oriented problem solvers, creative yet open to collaborate, and team players who also thrive in bringing their A-game to work.
If this sounds like you, shoot us your resume and we will invite you for a first chat to find out more about becoming an awesome addition to our team!
Company Description
Ubisoft Singapore is one of the top game development studios in the APAC region. Part of Ubisoft’s global network of studios, we’ve been creating memorable gaming experiences in Singapore since 2008. With over 300 employees from 30+ different nationalities, we are a diverse bunch of creatives redefining the world of digital entertainment for millions of players across the globe.
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