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Project Audio Lead

Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including Elite Dangerous , Planet Coaster , Jurassic World Evolution , Planet Zoo and F1 Manager . Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England. With a growing team of over 800 talented people supporting our existing portfolio and ambitious future roadmap, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.

This role is the equivalent of a Principal level role in responsibility.

You will help to create a safe space for learning, career growth and working together as a team. As the Lead of a Project you are not asked to be the best sound designer, the most technical person or being the best planner: With over 62 supporting staff across audio design, technical audio and audio production you will be assisted in those roles so we can succeed as a team.

You do excel at being a trusted and safe pair of hands and can use emotional intelligence and experience to guide, mentor and expand your team.

If that sounds like you, have a look at the detail below and imagine yourself in this role? Don't worry if you don't meet all the requirements listed, we don't see these as a means to gate-keep, rather to help guide your application and hopefully make your enthusiastic for this role!

A gameaudio showreel on YouTube (public/hidden YouTube links are fine) with your best work. We are happy to review paint overs and audio re-designs.

Extensive experience in creating audience facing audio, from a relevant or adjacent discipline.

Experience managing and/or leading teams.

We prefer candidates whom have shipped projects of a similar scope to Frontier Developments releases.

Experience working with adjacent disciplines in game development is a plus!

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor and guide the career of the people working in your team.
• Ambitious for audio in games, progressive in approach and open to idea sharing, mentoring and brainstorming.
• Translate vision into functional plans and guide their execution.
• Significantly impact and influence technical and aesthetic direction within own discipline and beyond.
• Operate autonomously from the Head of Audio Design and keep them well informed of all project developments, challenges and risks.
• Trusted and empowered explicitly to make decisions in the best interests of the project and project audio quality.
• Accountable for results, which may impact the whole discipline and/or project
• Can delegate and manage team tasks throughout the project lifetime.
• Work with other disciplines in the interest of the end user experience, can compromise on and champion features and ideas.
• Help cultivate an optimistic, fun, collaborative and above all, productive atmosphere within the audio team and beyond!

What you can bring to the project

• A flair for sound design - You are a story teller, always looking for interesting ways to convey the most ordinary sounds with superb attention to detail, weight, movement and materials.
• Being a good collaborator - You strive to build strong relationships with people in the audio teams and across other disciplines.
• A vision holder - You understand and can define creative vision and are able to articulate this in audio pillars and audio direction.
• A self-motivated attitude - You can take on work, be asked to help others and advance your skills without the need for specific instruction.
• Realistic about development - You have the capability to prioritise work and tasks, keeping to scheduled time-frames and negotiate forward looking compromises.
• A great personality - You are kind, friendly and considerate of others and will leave your ego at the door. You are not precious of your work and can work with feedback in a constructive way.

What's great about working in the Frontier Audio Team

• Be part of a thriving independent studio – with over 900 employees – that values audio highly as a key component of our games' experience.
• Join a large audio department with 62 people whom are focused on creating amazing experiences and push the boundaries of game audio.
• Support from a team of audio producers, programmers, technical designers, pipeline specialists, automation engineers, testers, music designers, dialogue designers and of course your colleagues in the on-project team!
• Multiple projects and medium length development cycles give you plenty of opportunity to not get creatively stuck.
• Work on games that people love to play and deliver audio for a caring and friendly community.
• Something to work on for everyone: Spaceships, animals, crowds, rides, F1 cars, weapons, dinosaurs, roller-coasters, cinematic cut-scenes, magic, Foley and creatures!
• We love experimentation, original ideas and even failure - these are all moments in which we grow and amaze ourselves and the rest of the team.
• We put the player experience first and foremost, and have technical solutions and pipelines to achieve this goal.
• We care about the mix and making sure that work shines in the context of the game.
• We have extensive soft skill training programs that will further your experience.
• We work with industry leading plugins, libraries and software which is regularly updated.
• We have access to custom 7.1 mixing rooms, a fully fitted VO recording room and a Foley room with pits for recording.
• An open and encouraging workplace, a safe-space for creativity to thrive.
• A diverse, open, encouraging and safe working environment.
• We strive for realistic deadlines and properly staffed projects with a proven technology base to mitigate against overtime strategy.
• Transparent and regular communication from the Frontier Executive Leadership team.

We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company’s success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.

Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.

We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.