Sound Designer Production Jobs

*** Games Studio is looking for a talented and highly-motivated Technical Sound Designer to help bring a brand-new AAA multi-platform game to fruition. This is a unique opportunity to deliver a high-quality, emotionally resonant, signature audio experience for one of *** 's first generation of original games.

We are an ambitious team that loves stories, is passionate about creating memorable and inclusive player experiences, and deeply values the positive team culture that we build together. We are seeking like-minded teammates with an inclination towards excellence, self-motivation, and teamwork.

As a part of *** , we strive to hire the best and value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration. Now is an amazing time to join *** as we seek to entertain the world. We have over 200 million paid members in over 190 countries, and we won't stop there. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Core Responsibilities:

• Work closely with audio lead and game team to conceptualize, prototype, build, and maintain effective audio systems that support the experiential and narrative pillars of our game
• Problem-solve and devise creative solutions to complex challenges that can arise within interactive audio
• Edit and implement a wide range of high-quality sound assets
• Collaborate with external outsourcers while maintaining excellent standards of communication
• Perform audio playtests, performance profiling, bug-fixing and optimization
• Contribute as a key stakeholder in designing and managing sound prioritization systems

Our ideal candidate possesses:

• 5+ years experience as a Technical Sound Designer, preferably on high-quality multi-platform games
• Expertise with Unreal Engine (including Blueprint), Wwise, and other industry-standard audio technologies
• Strong abilities with game audio concepts, workflows, and technical sound design best practices
• Experience creating and optimizing UE Blueprints
• Proficiency in visual programming and scripting languages
• Solid understanding of spatial audio concepts in gaming and related technologies
• Experience with HDR (high dynamic range) mixing techniques
• A keen focus on product quality and supporting player clarity, feedback, and experience
• Proven capability in sound design and content creation
• An inclusive, communicative, and collaborative mindset; we are a distributed development team
• Adaptive growth mindset and a passion for solving complex problems with other people
• Advanced profiling experience in middleware to identify and troubleshoot audio issues

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining interactive music systems
• Experience assessing and implementing in-game acoustics solutions
• Experience working with outsource or contractors
• Experience creating scripts for Reaper using Python or Lua
• Experience coding in C++ or C#
• Knowledge of 3rd party tools and add-ons used in AAA games
• Engine-native approaches such as UE Metasounds
• Strong portfolio/reel that demonstrates relevant experience in technical sound design in games

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $90,000-$600,000

*** provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are im *** tely entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

**** Channel 5, a *** -owned *** affiliate, has an opening for a creative, collegial individual to be part of our award-winning, nightly half-hour news magazine program, Chronicle. We are seeking an accomplished video editor to support our mission to share the stories of New England in a visually stunning way. As member of the Chronicle team you will work both collaboratively and independently to help create programs that bring words and video to life. You will bring an artist's eye, attention to detail, and a sense of creativity and fun to the job.

You will create show projects in Adobe Premiere; edit nightly show opens and teases; digitize field SD cards, cut content for social *** , record narration tracks, and manage the archiving process for Chronicle video. You will work closely with the Executive Producer and Managing Editor to prioritize tasks. While the primary responsibilities are within Chronicle, you will also edit the General Manager's weekly editorials and support ****'s urban news and feature magazine program, Cityline. Chronicle editors also work closely with designer on graphics and with videographers on best practices.

You may occasionally edit half-hour Chronicle episodes and assist in shooting video in the field.

Job Responsibilities:

• Cut nightly show opens and teases. Preview all packages prior to nightly broadcast and troubleshoot problems
• Archive all original Chronicle content and manage the program's digital archives
• Work with catalog systems to record and locate necessary video
• Gather and edit video and still pictures
• Possess the ability to edit show packages for both broadcast and digital platforms
• Work with producers to ensure their creative vision is executed with vivid video and natural sound, music, and graphics
• In person attendance is required

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of editing long-form packages
• Minimum three years of experience working with Adobe Premiere
• Videography experience strongly preferred
• Exceptional ability to use digital editing tools, specifically the Adobe creative suite, and a willingness to work in a team-based environment
• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks
• Understanding of the principles and ethics of journalism
• Ability to work under deadline pressure
• Strong attention to detail
• Equivalent military training from Defense Information School (DINFOS) and associated experience will be considered.

Diversity Statement

At *** Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Benefits

*** 's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a *** employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

• Medical | Dental | Vision
• 401(k) matching
• Emotional Wellness Support
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs
  
  About Us
  
  *** Television (HTV) owns and/or operates 35 television and two radio stations serving 27 *** markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. HTV is recognized as one of the industry's premier broadcasting companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service.

Emerging Creative specializes in interaction, animation, cinematic UX, and engaging content-forward interfaces. Our goal is performant, intuitive & delightful user experiences that immerse users in an effortless flow, effectively convey information, and foster meaningful connections *** ween *** , members (and soon-to-be members), and B2B partners around the globe.

As strategic creative partners, we work with a range of Product teams to create, build, and implement UX concepts using motion, sound, video & visual design.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the team! As ECXD Designer you will be responsible for UX/UI strategy with a focus on user interface design and brand expression across our full suite of consumer products including web, mobile, and TV. Working horizontally and collaboratively across a range of member and nonmember surfaces to envision and build product experiences that advance business goals, and the aesthetics and usability of the *** Product Excperience.

Deliverables include UX concepts for testing and future-forward ideas communicated through a variety of artifacts like qual stimuli, wireframes, mockups, videos, high-fidelity prototypes, novel promotional asset concepts, and compelling business storytelling.

Responsible For

• Establishing and leading UX visual design of the team's portfolio.
• Acting as informed captain on complex multi-disciplinary projects, leading creative development and aligning multiple disciplines to project goals and creative direction.
• Partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to interpret goals into creative strategies for the team.
• Creating, iterating on, and supporting the testing of new UX designs.
• Translating business requirements to functional and engaging user interfaces.
• Based on feasibility requirements, ensuring an appropriate level of effort and complexity in the work.Incorporating user & market research into design and articulating strategy behind proposed solutions.
• Collaborating with XFN partners including UX designers, dev teams, researchers, writers, product managers, and other product partners.
• Continuously establishing and optimizing new partnerships and workflows.
• Collaborating with Design Systems to understand, apply, and evolve *** 's Brand Language to our product experience, responsibly applying and evolving established design
• Staying updated on the latest industry trends and techniques, and sharing knowledge with the team as a specialist in visual design.

Must Have

• Ability to cultivate and craft beautiful, visionary product UX concepts grounded in user needs.
• Attention to detail and a passion for upholding an exceptional quality bar.
• Strong cross-discipline partnership and collaboration skills, with the ability to see the big picture strategically, bring pieces together, and drive clarity through ambiguity.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams including video, audio, and motion graphics on a variety of creative artifacts.
• Strong understanding of design systems and user-centered design principles.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to articulate design decisions and high-level strategy clearly with an informed perspective.
• Proactive and self-starting, able to uncover (and propose ideas to solve) challenges and opportunities independently.
• Ability to participate in and i *** uence driving impactful design solutions through all phases of a product development lifecycle.

Bonus

• UX prototyping
• Product Marketing Expertise
• B2B business communications and Brand partnerships
• Content Promotion CreativeUX motion design skills
• Strategic UX product planning and roadmap development

Why work at *** ?

• If you want to have a large impact at a growing company and work with a high-performance team.
• Work with talented colleagues on challenging problems that affect 250+ million members across the globe.
• We value high performance, freedom, and responsibility. We don't focus on rules, processes, or procedures.
• We are candid and transparent and seek excellence in all that we do.
• We tackle hard problems that others have yet to be able to solve.
• We produce great content, build systems at scale, and use data to push the business forward.
• We connect people with visual storytelling globally.

Pay Transparency

• Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $200,000-$700,000.
  
  
• *** provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time salaried employees are im *** tely entitled to flexible time off.
  
  
• See more detail about our Benefits here. *** is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
  
  
• We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully.
  
  
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Who We Are

Next Games, a *** Game Studio, is a Helsinki-based studio dedicated to crafting fans-first interactive experiences that combine the stories from popular movies and shows with engaging game mechanics. Our values, Caring, Courage, and Curiosity, drive our commitment to our players and each other, with a focus on fun gameplay free from the constraints of free-to-play.

We celebrate diversity, with dozens of nationalities and a third of our team identifying as women or non-binary. We don't seek culture fit, but rather the unique contributions each individual brings to enrich our culture. If you're passionate about creating innovative mobile games in a diverse, supportive environment, we're eager to hear from you!

The Role

As a Principle Designer at NextGames, you'll be instrumental in delivering on the game's vision, translating concepts into captivating and highly engaging designs. Your proactive approach will drive innovation, ensuring fresh and compelling gameplay experiences while taking ownership of key design elements and providing leadership within the team. Mentoring junior designers will be integral as you foster craft excellence and a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring accessibility in both gameplay and design processes, and creating an inclusive and immersive experience for all players.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating closely with the Lead Designer to ensure the game vision achieves its fullest potential.
• Leading and mentoring fellow designers and team members, drawing on your expertise.
• Designing, planning, and implementing game mechanics, systems, and content. Using live game metrics and user experience testing to fine-tune these features.
• Collaborating with experienced colleagues on economy design, user experience, and other disciplines to enhance the game's performance based on key performance indicators.
• Developing and maintaining comprehensive design documentation covering gameplay mechanics, guidelines, game loops, and player progression.
• Creating concepts and prototypes, actively participating in planning and analyzing tests.

Skills and Experience:

• Ideally 9-12+ years of commercial experience with a successful track record shipping three or more free-to-play titles in a Design role for mobile F2P games.
• Experience in live game operations is valuable, the *** advantage lies in the ability to craft games entirely from scratch
• Strong passion for games and excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Understanding player motivations and audience profiles, and the ability to align these with mechanics and systems.
• Experience and enthusiasm for leading and mentoring other designers and team members.

Prefered Skills and Experience

• Experience in designing cooperative or competitive social game mechanics in mobile games
• Comfort with system modeling using spreadsheets.

The Team

You'll be joining a new game team with people from different backgrounds. We are seeking a candidate who works primarily from our Helsinki office, alongside the game lead and lead designer. We value transparent communication, proactive problem-solving, and an enthusiasm for crafting accessible experiences.

Does this opportunity sound like your next adventure? Then apply today!

Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

Welcome to *** Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are...

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role...

The Senior Graphics Artist position will design and produce still and animated graphic content for Live News and Feature Programming. Communicate with producers, graphic supervisors, and other design team members to support a range of graphics requests. Expert multi-tasker able to support daily news requests while working on quick turn animations, package development and longer term branding initiatives. Produce high quality design under tight deadlines while maintaining strict accuracy, visual clarity and meets technical standards.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Create graphics to support Design network programming with a focus on animated content.
  
• Accomplished motion designer with exceptional skills creating animated content for both program branding and explainer graphics.
  
• Able to develop animations for branded programming that effectively support key Editorial content goals in a dynamic, visually compelling manner.
  
• Able to take a verbal script and translate complex ideas into easily understandable visual presentations.
  
• Must possess excellent audio skills working with music, sound design and voice track.
  
• Exhibits exceptional branding skills. Is equally able to develop branding and work within defined style guides.
  
• Thorough understanding of Design standards and Style is appropriately applied and advocated on all projects. Sound editorial thinking applied when producing graphics in support of news content.
  
• Successfully manages time and resources to create a diverse scope of graphics supporting daily news and other network programming. Balances time vs workload to consistently deliver effective results.
  
• During breaking news, quickly determines graphic needs of both networks; promptly and accurately expedites all necessary elements. Follows through with the editorial staff of both networks to ensure all needs are met.
  

Qualifications & Experience...

• Degree from accredited art school with emphasis in graphic design, motion design or related field (illustration, photography, industrial design, visual communications) or equivalent work experience.
  
• Displays outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with other teams under pressure.
  
• Embraces working in a diverse, collaborative environment and is willing to train and assist other designers on various levels. Actively contribute to overall positive and creative atmosphere of the department.
  
• Excellent computer, organizational and interpersonal skills required.
  
• Expert level at Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Etc.).
  
• Cinema 4D knowledge is a plus
  
• Knowledge of world news and current events. Flexible schedule: Ability to work extended hours, including overnight hours and weekends as needed.
  
• Flexible schedule: Ability to work extended hours, including overnight hours and weekends as needed.
  
• Reel/work examples required, be prepared to highlight 2-3 case studies and specific contribution for each.
  

How We Get Things Done...

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits...

*** Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at [Please reply using Staff Me Up].

*** News and Stations, brings together the power of *** News, 28 owned television stations in 17 major U.S. markets, *** N, *** N Local platforms, local websites and *** news.com, under one umbrella. *** News and Stations is home to the nation's #1 news program 60 MINUTES, *** N, the first 24/7 digital streaming news network, the award-winning broadcasts *** MORNINGS, *** SATURDAY MORNING, the *** EVENING NEWS **** NORAH O'DONNELL, *** SUNDAY MORNING, *** ****END NEWS, 48 HOURS and FACE THE NATION **** MARGARET BRENNAN. *** News and Stations also produces the award-winning 60 MINUTES+ for *** +. *** News and Stations provides news and information for the *** Television Network, *** News.com, *** N, *** News Radio and podcasts, *** Mobile, *** + and other digital platforms. *** News and Stations is dedicated to providing the highest quality journalism under standards it pioneered and continues to set in today's digital age. *** News earns more prestigious journalism awards than any other broadcast network.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

****-TV has an open position for an enthusiastic, bright, technically minded freelance graphic designer/animator to join a Creative Services Department that offers a wide range of work and mediums. The ideal candidate will create impactful, daily news graphics and special graphics packages while adhering to the *** brand. They will conceptualize and execute engaging on-air animations for promos, shows, commercials, digital/social content, corporate presentations and more. This position will work directly with the Design Director, writer/producers, editors and other graphic designers.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Strong design/animation skills and in-depth understanding of After Effects and industry standard plug-ins.

- Proficient in the Adobe CC Suite and Mac OS workflow.

- Excellent typography, design and color theory practices.

- Must be highly organized and able to follow instructions completely and accurately.

- Strong multi-tasking ability with excellent problem-solving ability.

- Excellent time management skills and ability to work unsupervised, to tight deadlines.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills.

- A sound grasp of post-production processes and services for broadcast.

- Must be dedicated, punctual, willing to learn and have a strong work ethic.

- Cinema 4D and/or VizRT working experience.

- Flexible schedule, last-minute, holiday, vacation relief coverage.

- Knowledge of Chicago and its vicinity.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

- Bachelor of Arts Degree, 3+ years of work experience at TV station, network or agency experience preferred.

-Please provide a link to a current portfolio or demo reel demonstrating abilities. Candidates without work samples will not be considered.

-References may be required

*** *** is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At *** *** , the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. *** *** is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access. *** as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to [Please reply using Staff Me Up]. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned.

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*** *** believes in creating environments that allow our primary focus to remain on providing entertainment, education and information to our millions of viewers around the world. As part of this commitment to health and safety, *** *** requires COVID-19 vaccines for current U.S. employees, including all newly hired employees, subject to applicable law. Union employees are subject to what is outlined in their applicable collective bargaining agreement.

Nearest Major Market: Chicago