Sound Designer II - League Studios, Creative eXpressions

As a Sound Designer, your technical and creative audio skills will combine to bring life to the broad range of characters and experiences in our games. Joining efforts with a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll help drive projects from their inception. Using your passion, creativity, and critical thinking you will help guide team decisions and provide valuable feedback to your peers. 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.

As a Sound Designer II on Creative eXpressions, you will report into the Sound Design Manager. You will be focused on partnering with the Teamfight Tactics and the Fight For the Golden Spatula teams to deliver audio experiences that surpass players expectations. You will balance giving audio guidance to vendors and partners with creative audio design, when necessary. With direction and feedback, you can hit the quality of your craft, and are always hungry to apply what you have learned to the next challenge.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the audio vision for characters, skin lines, or other recurring features
• Clearly define and communicate content audio goals, including how they align with product goals
• Working with external vendors to ensure they deliver high-quality work
• Collaborate with the FFGS team and other disciplines to define appropriate processes and pipelines for effective audio content delivery
• Collaborate with music, video, and other central teams to ensure thematic consistency across in-game and out-of-game features
• Record, edit, and design sound effects for game characters, skin lines, and other recurring features using industry-standard methods and tools
• Use in-house engine tools and Wwise to implement assets directly into the game
• Ensure quality of asset output by playtesting and gathering daily feedback on your content from your team and discipline

Required Qualifications:

• Fluency in Mandarin and English
• Expertise in the holistic game audio process (Sound Design, Voice Over, Music Implementation, Technology, Player Experience, etc.)
• Knowledge of sound design creation tools (ProTools, Nuendo, Reaper, Izotope, Waves, Native Instruments, etc) & techniques 
• Knowledge of sound design, voiceover & music implementation methods
• Knowledge of audio middleware (Wwise, Fmod, etc.)  and overall game engine technology (Unreal, Unity, Lumberyard, etc.)
• Strong communication & collaboration skills (Individual, Team)
• Ability to navigate stakeholder, senior leadership, discipline, and team feedback effectively
• Ability to own the total quality and value of the experiences we deliver to our audience
• Ability to overcome change & challenges to deliver results
• Ability to develop constructive working relationships with others to achieve team goals
• Willingness to travel internationally as needed

Desired Qualifications:

• Certificate/Bachelors in audio/music engineering or equivalent industry experience (2+ years)
• Knowledge of programming or scripting languages (Lua, Python, etc.)
• Ability to lead and own mid-scope discipline and product team efforts such as cross-discipline team knowledge shares/classes, etc

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.