Principal Sound Designer - Entertainment, Arcane

Job Description

Principal sound designers at Riot are recognized industry leaders in sound design craft, are accountable for driving aural exploration, pushing sonic boundaries and collaborating with producers and discipline leads to define the audio aesthetic for our projects.

As a Principal Sound Designer within Riot Entertainment, you will lead sonic exploration for projects in varying stages of development, including pre-production, production and post-production. Your deep experience designing sound and capturing original recordings for a variety of genres will be crucial to telling our stories, serving product vision, and delighting audiences with iconic, lasting and signature sound. You will collaborate closely with cross discipline creative leads, partner studios and production teams to execute on a broad and diverse set of sound design challenges.

Responsibilities:
• Execute sound design craft at the highest quality while supporting team leadership in operational efforts
• Explore, identify and define audio styles and sound design palettes for characters, environments and associated content within the League of Legends universe
• Ensure in-house and contracted sound team members are adhering to sonic excellence, including : quality, efficiency, speed, and breadth
• Collaborate with creative leads to define our quality standards and 'definition of done'
• Lead on creative and complex assignments with multiple disciplines and product leaders
• Provide guidance and feedback that force multiplies sound artists across your team in their efficiency, skills, and quality
• Mentors other Riot sound designers in sonic craft as well as relevant soft skills
• Collaborate with other disciplines to define and create appropriate processes and pipelines for effective audio content delivery
• Prototyping, R&D and overall support across the life of a product in order to support testing design hypotheses and drive forward progress on milestones

Required Qualifications:
• 10 + years of experience working in sound for feature film, television or other linear media
• Credited work on multiple major theatrical, broadcast, or streaming releases, showcasing competent and high quality sound design spanning assorted genres
• A proven track record of inventive, impactful and top-tier sound design, working across multiple genres
• Degree or certificate In sound design, audio engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Mastery of industry-standard audio production and post-production software, hardware, pipelines, workflows, and processes
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to navigate and manage multi-faceted feedback streams from product stakeholders, partners, and studio leadership

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working with, and a deep understanding of the sonic aesthetic of the League of Legends IP

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!
Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in gaming

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

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