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Senior Sound Designer - Diablo IV

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The minions of hell grow stronger! Are you a skilled Senior Sound Designer? Our team of talented developers is growing. Our backgrounds are diverse, but we all share a real passion for what we do. If you value a tight-knit team that celebrates self-expression and a multi-disciplinary approach, then join us on the Diablo team!

As a Senior Sound Designer you’ll be working closely with the audio director, sound designers, game producers, artists, and designers to bring their characters, creatures, and environments to life. Our Sound Designers are comfortable collaborating with various disciplines to create magical abilities, creatures, UI, environmental audio that compliment and meld seamlessly with gameplay. In addition, each of our Sound Designers record and create original content while utilizing our proprietary game tools to integrate their work into the final product -- ensuring that great concepts make the transition from the microphone to the game on the shelves.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• Experience specifically in recording and creating outstanding sound assets for video games including magical spells, creatures, foley and environmental audio
• Experience with live recording sessions, both in the studio and in the field
• Experience designing and conforming sound-to-picture
• Experience working with both commercial and proprietary audio, and implementation tools on multiple platforms and workstations
• Experience developing games that use proprietary audio engines or middleware such as Audiokinetic Wwise or FMod Studio
• Game audio credits on at least 1 major, shipped titles

Knowledge & Skills

• Proven skills and a unique artistic "voice" in terms of communicating and furthering a storyline via the medium of sound

Key Attributes

• Able to work effectively as an individual contributor and as part of a project team
• Able to receive constructive feedback effectively and see how it ties into a broader picture.

Pluses

Experience

• "Building block DSP" experience such as Kyma, Reaktor or Max / MSP
  

Knowledge & Skills

• Able to do level-design style scripting for audio implementation
• Understands the basic fundamentals of programming

Key Attributes

• A passion for field recording and audio source creation.

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Applicants must submit online demo reel showing relevant experience.
  

Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Accommodation Request: We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to talentacquisition@blizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.