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Senior Voice Over Designer - DICE

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the phenomenally successful Battlefield franchise, the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise, and the very creative Mirror's Edge games.

We work through our 4 guiding values: Passion with Purpose, Creative Innovation, Everything Quality, and One Community. Our people are the backbone and driving force to our creative products. As such, we are dedicated to providing everyone the chance to express themselves and be their very best with a common cause.

The DICE Sound team is looking for a Voice Over Designer to work alongside their in-house VO team, as they record and implement vocal assets for high-profile, action-packed titles for Playstation, Xbox and PC platforms. We want you to be passionate about making great games, demonstrate excellent voice production skills, be a strong problem-solver and an effective communicator.

Responsibilities

• Edit, process, implement and mix placeholder and final VO content into the game.
• Work closely together with the VO Director and VO team to ensure the Vo team delivers the highest quality VO for our games.
• Work closely with the VO Director and Narrative team to ensure VO meets project goals.
• Have a strong interest in the larger audio soundscape of the game and make sure the VO meets expectations.
• Contribute with creative and technical solutions to improve VO in our games.
• Help plan, attend and direct VO sessions/MOCAP shoots and deliver high quality VO content for our games.
• Organize and maintain excellent structure of VO data pipeline - from script to localized assets..
• Work together with the VO Director and and other stakeholders and liaise with VO outsourcing partners and vendors as required.
• Work closely with the VO director to define and maintain VO recording and delivery quality specifications.
• Work together with other disciplines to ensure good VO implementation and workflow.
• Work together with Localization to ensure cohesion between English and localized languages.

Qualifications

• The role requires 3 years of prior industry experience shipping AA/AAA titles or equivalent knowledge.
• Desire to develop narrative, vo production, and engineering skills.
• Proficient with modern studio hardware, recording techniques, and software such as Reaper, ProTools, Sound Forge, Waves plugins, RX etc.
• Knowledge of audio middleware, e.g. WWISE, FMOD, Unity etc. useful but not essential
• Knowledge of graphical audio programming, e.g. Reaktor, Max-MSP, Pure Data, useful but not essential.
• Proficient with recording gear and recording techniques.
• You should have a keen interest to actively seek new ways to improve VO in our games.
• Prior MOCAP/Location recording experience is useful but not essential.
• Outstanding listening skills.
• Excellent team and communication skills.
• Strong artistic and narrative sense.
• Excellent skills in english.
• A passion for making great sounding games.

As part of your application, please provide:

• An up-to-date resume and cover letter.
• A show-reel demonstrating your skills within the relevant field.
• As part of the application process we might ask you to perform a work assignment.