VO Designer

Job Description

As a VO Designer, your technical and creative audio skills will combine to bring life to the broad range of characters and experiences in VALORANT. Joining efforts with a multi-disciplinary team, you'll help drive projects from their inception. Using a deep understanding of sound design and implementation as it relates to voiceover will help you craft new and engaging VO for VALORANT. As a member of the audio discipline, you'll strive to find ways to teach and level up those around you while continuing to challenge and grow yourself.

VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a VO Designer II on the VALORANT team, you will work within the audio discipline to help shape in-game audio for the game. You will also interact on a regular basis with product leadership, discipline leadership, and the larger sound design team to ensure that all dependencies are understood. You will report to the Senior Manager, Audio Direction

Responsibilities
• Edit, test & bug fix VO for agents
• Regularly interface with and provide feedback to external vendors
• Prepare reference material for recording sessions
• Ensure mastered VO meets project specifications
• Experiment with processing recipes for champs/skins
• Engineer chosen takes sessions
• Integrate VO in Audiokinetic Wwise
• Integrate VO in Unreal Engine
• Collaborate with Narrative, Design, and Audio disciplines
• Capture and edit gameplay videos showcasing VO for reviews
• Prepare LOC kits to send to regions for Localization

Required Qualifications
• 5+ years experience as a VO Designer
• Expertise with audio editing in a Digital Audio Workstation (i.e. - Pro Tools, Nuendo, Reaper)
• Ability to evaluate mastered VO delivered by vendors against specifications and creative bar.
• Expertise with voice over processing tools and techniques using creative sound design tools and techniques (i.e. - Waves, Native Instruments, iZotope)
• Experience recording voice over sessions and running sessions to choose takes with directors and writers.
• Experience with technical implementation and Wwise audio middleware.
• Experience with technical implementation and Wwise audio middleware.
• Experience with voice-over in multiplayer games.

Desired Qualifications
• Experience in evaluating actors' performance
Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r184qy-3-142-144-40-42 in your application.