Senior Sound Designer

Are you a Senior Sound Designer with a passion for immersive game audio? (On-Site, Full-Time – Stockholm, Sweden)

A dynamic, fully funded scale-up game studio in Stockholm is looking for a talented Senior Sound Designer to join their innovative and collaborative team. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to an exciting, cooperative FPS set in a sci-fi, techno-thriller universe, working alongside a team passionate about creating world-class gaming experiences.

As a Senior Sound Designer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the audio for this thrilling project, ensuring that it meets the highest standards of quality and creativity.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, record, edit, process, and mix in-game sound effects using Reaper.

• Implement complex, dynamic audio systems with Wwise, Unity, proprietary tools, and visual scripting.

• Own and optimize audio systems, ensuring they meet technical and performance requirements.

• Mix and finalize sound for in-game content, trailers, and marketing assets.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align audio with the creative vision and improve the player experience.

• Maintain a clean and organized Wwise project, alongside an efficient audio library structure.

• Document workflows and ensure top-notch quality assurance for all sound design deliverables.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience as a game sound designer, contributing to at least one FPS or third-person 3D game with dynamic camera systems throughout the full production cycle.

• Proficiency with Reaper, and extensive experience designing high-quality game audio.

• Strong working knowledge of Audiokinetic Wwise, with the ability to navigate and contribute to existing project structures.

• Demonstrated ability to self-manage, adapt to established sound design styles, and work independently while also being a proactive and effective team member.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with developers across various disciplines.

• Fluency in spoken and written English.

• Successful completion of an initial sound test.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Dolby Atmos and object-based audio mixing.

• Cross-platform game development experience.

• Field recording expertise and a personal library of high-quality sound assets.

Ready to elevate the audio experience of a ground-breaking game project? Apply now through Andy at Skillsearch: ad@skillsearch.com

Years of experience and salary levels are shown purely as a guide. We will only consider applications from candidates that can demonstrate the skills or experience required for the role.

Please be aware that while we would love to respond to every application we receive, due to high numbers we cannot guarantee this. We do however appreciate any time you invest into the application and will make sure to get in touch should anything in future more closely fit your skillset.