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Senior Audio Designer

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.

The audio team at Frontier is on the lookout for a Senior Audio Designer. This is an opportunity to step up and take ownership, work closely with the Audio Lead and help realise and execute a cohesive vision for the project.

As a Senior Audio Designer you will have experienced at least one large project from start-to-finish. You will have worked with adjacent disciplines for achieve the direction and vision of a project and can work independently to define goals for a successful execution. We expect candidates to have ample experience as "full" sound designer on several projects or when coming from an adjacent field, to have researched games, game audio, middle-ware and best practices.

Requirements

• Apply with a gameaudio showreel as we cannot accept applications without a showreel
• Extensive experience in game audio or experience from a relevant adjacent field
• You've shipped a project of a similar size to the projects that Frontier Developments releases, preferably two
• Worked on a game using middleware, we specifically work with Wwise
• Some knowledge and experience in field recording
• Excellent sound designer and storyteller
• Experience in mentoring graduate and/or full sound designers
• Have worked closely with adjacent disciplines to achieve the audio vision

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the project lead and head of audio design
• Ownership of larger areas of the game
• Define work needed in relationship to your owned areas of the game
• Deliver assets on time and to the required quality bar as set out by audio producer and project lead
• Work closely with adjacent departments to optimize and facilitate deliverables
• Can break down complex topics into modular deliverables and take ownership of delivery
• When requested, work closely with the dialogue team, audio-producer, music designer, technical sound designers and programmers
• Represent audio in various cross department stand ups/meetings and be a champion for co-operation and inclusion of the audio team
• Mentor and feedback to junior members of the team and help with sound design and wwise implementation work

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 share the creative vision of the Project Lead with the team and add your creativity, technical and the communication skills to achieve it
• Planner - You are able to translate vision into functional plans and can help guide their execution
• A self-motivated attitude - You can take on work, be asked to help others and advance your skills without the need for specific instruction – you can help your audio producer identify and break these down into tasks
• Realistic about development - You have the capability to prioritise your work and tasks, keeping to scheduled time-frames and develop forward looking compromises
• A great personality - You are kind, friendly and considerate of others and will leave your ego at the door

Benefits of Audio at Frontier

• Be part of a thriving independent studio – with over 800 employees – that values audio highly as a key component of our games' experience
• Join a large audio department with over 55 people whom are focused on creating amazing experienced and push the boundaries of game audio
• Be part of the Audio Design team with over 25 Audio-, Dialogue-, Linear- and Music-Designers, that strive for innovative sound design that keeps player relevant information front and centre in the mix
• We are supported by a large Audio Tech team, Audio Producers, Audio Design Services and plenty of studio facilities
• Access to two custom fitted 7.1 mixing rooms, a fully fitted VO recording room and a Foley room with pits
• Direct exposure to people across other disciplines – your ideas, work and input can make a difference!
• We strive for realistic deadlines and properly staffed projects with a proven technology base to mitigate against overtime. Work that you love shouldn't turn into a pressure-cooker!
• 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
• A culture of sharing and giving constructive feedback, granting extensive and group shared visions on your progress and work
• Regular updates with your Project Lead and the Head of Audio Design to talk about how you'd like to be managed and how we can help you grow
Please upload any show reels to either your public website or a private YouTube link, we are unable to view google drive links.

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.