Audio Director

Magnopus•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

We are seeking an audio director to work on a high-profile interactive experience to celebrate a new movie IP. The experience gives players the chance to create and play with music, and control the world around them. This experience will incorporate many legendary catalogue tracks, alongside user generated content, expressed through interactions and effects. This is both a creative direction and leadership role. You will be working closely with the internal audio department and external stakeholders to guide the musical vision and overall audio experience. Magnopus's studio postings are made in advance of work anticipated to be awarded. Hires cannot be made until contracts are awarded. In some instances, contracts may not be awarded which could delay or preempt the interview process. We appreciate your patience. Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds. Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits. We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate. Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home: Mission: ISS Disney Pixar Coco VR Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab The Lion King - Virtual Production Elixir We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process - for example, to transcribe interviews and generate summaries. These tools are not used to review applications or analyse resumes, and they do not replace human judgement. All hiring decisions are made by people. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Requirements

Creative Direction: Proven track record of leading the audio/musical vision for high-profile games, interactive media, or innovative music-tech projects.
Linear & Non-Linear Expertise: Strong understanding of both traditional film scoring/production and dynamic, state-based interactive music systems.
Project Management: Proficiency in Jira and Confluence is preferred, as well as creating presentations, Miro boards, and documentation as required.
Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional communication skills with a history of managing and collaborating with brands and external stakeholders (both exec level and creatives), balancing both practical and scope discussions with creative solutions in-the-room.
Technical Literacy: Fluency in game audio implementation and a solid understanding of how engineering constraints can impact creative possibilities. You will have experience to balance economical decision making with creative ambition.
Strong Ear for Quality you can identify and resolve quality issues with regard to key, mix, balance, blending, EQ sequencing and FX in order to deliver an exceptionally high level of quality.

Responsibilities

Define the Musical Vision: Establish and maintain the overarching audio direction for the interactive experience, ensuring a cohesive blend of sfx, licensed tracks and user-generated content.
Ensure our project sounds awesome from end to end - everything from songs to sound effects.
Experiential implementation: Attend, present and review work both in audio and software formats where appropriate.
Provide written and face-to-face feedback on implemented works and prototypes to help align the project and deliver on the creative ambition.
Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Act as the primary creative bridge between the internal audio team (design and engineering) and the external film department to ensure visual and sonic alignment.
Stakeholder Management: Present and defend creative concepts to external partners, IP holders, and other artists teams as it relates to the musical vision.
Manage scope: Manage the audio production lifecycle within Jira , ensuring that creative milestones, tasks, technical spikes and R&D are managed, reviewed and triaged effectively.
Music Interaction Design: Oversee the development of interactive music systems that allow players to manipulate and remix stems in real-time alongside gestural inputs to create music which works in-sympathy with library-based remixes.
Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary audio team, translating high-level creative goals into actionable technical tasks and Jira tickets for sound design, technical sound and audio engineers.