Lead Audio Engineer

As the Lead Audio Engineer at SIDE, you will be responsible for the supervision of the technical staff, facility equipment and studio operations, helping to ensure the timely completion of agreed deliverables and milestones, to a very high standard. For an outsource company it’s the ‘high quality’ that brings back returning clients and keeps the awards coming.

Duties And Key Responsibilities

• Daily management of staff, including project output, addressing issues, and resolving and escalating to senior management where required.
• Review and approve department hours for TAs and Engineers, ensuring and highlighting any concerns to senior management.
• Work with the production team on setting up external studios for recordings, either locally or remotely.
• Organize and allocate jobs to staff through the work diary and ensure excellent communication between all departments.
• Liaise with clients about best technical practices for their session.
• Liaise with staff about best technical practices for their session.
• Be on standby to engineer studio and location sessions – from wild dialogue recording to location off-site recording.
• Help prepare studio sessions’ assets such as audio and video reference files and dialogue scripts.
• Help maintain studios and studio equipment, including defining new tech needed.
• Develop studio services, processes, and workflow.

Management

• Work with the Directors, Heads of Department, and Managers to lead SIDE as the market leader in its field.
• Supervision and development of the studio team, including allocation of projects.
• Conduct regular 1to1s to issue feedback on performance in relation to KPI and tasks undertaken.
• Identify recruitment needs and management of resource planning.
• Track and monitor studio budget and highlight concerns to senior management.
• To work in collaboration with the other heads and senior management team to ensure best practices are kept.

Other

• Adhere to company Security, Confidentiality and Health and Safety procedures and ensure the compliance of the team.
• Adhere to the company IT and HR procedures and ensure the compliance of the team.
• Understand ethical behaviour and business practices and ensure that own behaviour and the behaviour of others is consistent with these standards and aligns with the values of the organisation.

Requirements

• Excellent client facing and internal communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
• 5+ years’ experience in a commercial audio Postproduction role, ideally working for some time within studio.
• Experience working with across multiple projects and languages.
• The ability to strategize and allocate resources for upcoming projects.
• Experienced user of Pro Tools and other DAWs.
• Experienced with video workflows, tracklaying and ADR through VoiceQ.
• Experienced user of Audition, RX or other similar software.
• Experienced user of MS Office, especially Excel.

About Side

Side (formerly PTW) is a global video game development and services provider, offering technical and creative solutions to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in 2009 and drawing on 30+ years’ experience from our parent company in Japan, Side has since grown to become a global force with 20 studios in 14 countries across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. Our industry-leading services include game development, art production, audio production, quality assurance, localization, localization QA, player support, community management, and datasets. Help us bring stories to the world! Join a global team of passionate gamers and contribute to delivering unforgettable game experiences. Experience our side of life. For more information, visit www.side.inc.