Senior Audio Designer - Narrative Focus

• Co-create the audio vision for narrative cohesion. Craft and implement dynamic, audio systems in Wwise and UE5 to make branching gameplay feel like an authored experienced.
• Collaborate with designers across disciplines, including gameplay, systems, quest, and narrative to identify where story emerges through play. Propose audio solutions that surface and strengthen those moments.
• Help the team identify risks and keep the audio vision moving forward even when the broader design is still taking shape.
• Partner with technical personnel, including tools engineers and audio programmers. Translate the needs of systemic narrative design into clear technical requirements for our audio tools and pipelines.
• Establish and document best practices for systemic audio design, creating shared language and process across the team.
• Play the game relentlessly, and identify stylistic inconsistencies, dead zones, and poor transitions. Advocate for the audio experience across disciplines.

• 5+ years of game audio design experience
• A portfolio/demo reel demonstrating systemic or non-linear audio design. Show us how your audio adapts to player choice, state changes, or emergent gameplay.
• Mastery of dynamic audio implementation in a modern game engine (Unreal Engine 5 strongly preferred).
• Expertise with Wwise or FMOD, especially for large-scale projects with multiple systems and complex routing.
• A strong personal relationship with games. You play widely, think critically about how games work, and understand how audio shapes the player's experience from the inside.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of inspiring others with a creative vision and clearly explaining technical needs to engineering partners.

• Experience on shipped branching narrative games, open-world titles, immersive sims, or games where story emerges through systems.
• Experience mentoring other audio designers or providing creative feedback.
• Familiarity with the technical pipelines and tools used in quest or narrative scripting (e.g., visual scripting, dialogue systems).

• No one on the team has done this exact thing before. You will help navigate this challenge with a team that's eager to explore how to deliver storytelling in this form.
• You won't be handed a brief. We protect time for deep creative work and trust you to find the path forward.
• Dedicated tools engineers help to build the technical capabilities required to deliver the audio experience.
• Help define what systemic narrative audio means for our project and accumulate experience in this front for the next generation of designers on our team.

USD per year (Los Angeles only). Actual pay is based on location and may vary depending on relevant knowledge, skills, and experience from the candidate. Total compensation may include salary, company bonuses, sign-on bonuses, relocation package, and other benefits such as:

• 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you and your dependents

• Generous paid time off

• 401K / RRSP plan

• Employer-paid life and disability insurance

• Team-building activities throughout the year

• Flexible working hours

We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.