Senior Interactive Music Designer - League Studios, Creative eXpressions

Riot Games•Los Angeles, CA

13d

About The Position

Creative eXpressions at Riot strives to deliver lasting sonic experiences for players. As an Interactive Music Designer, you will combine your passion for music with cutting-edge interactive technology to create dynamic and immersive musical experiences that elevate gameplay to new heights. Joining efforts with a multidisciplinary team, you’ll help drive game projects from their inception. 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 an Interactive Music Designer on Creative eXpressions, you will have the opportunity to craft interactive music experiences that resonate with players, enhancing their immersion in the world of League of Legends and TFT. Your creative contributions will play a pivotal role in shaping the soundscape of our games, enriching the overall player experience. Through collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will ensure that every note harmonizes seamlessly with the interactive elements of the game. You will merge elements of music composition and interactive technology to create immersive and dynamic musical experiences. This will involve working with Audio Leads and Audio Director to identify opportunities to heighten the game experience, collaborating with engineering in the implementation of world class systems that will adapt the music in real-time to different events and player actions within the game.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Music in the games industry with at least 3 years of hands-on experience with interactive music systems design
Exceptional Wwise or Fmod implementation skills
Proficient with Perforce and with modern day audio software tools (Nuendo, Pro-Tools, Reaper, Plugins)
Strong communication & collaboration skills
Ability to own the total quality and value of the experiences we deliver to our audience
Ability to navigate stakeholder, senior leadership, discipline and team feedback effectively
Ability to lead and own higher-scope discipline, initiative and product team efforts such as driving on creation and adoption of style-guides, and standards along with setting team initiatives and sharing up to date industry learnings

Nice To Haves

Understanding the technical constraints regarding music implementation of PC and Mobile to accurately predict task duration and understand dependencies
Understanding the nuances between single player experiences and multi player experiences

Responsibilities

Work along-side game engineers, game designers and sound designers to develop the framework of music playback systems based on Product teams’ creative vision and gameplay needs
Execute on Audio direction
Define and apply best practices of interactive music workflows and systems to support project needs
Act as a liaison to advocate for music to the engineering staff, and partner with team members across disciplines to find solutions that best support the gameplay experience
Create and implement AAA-quality in-game music assets via Wwise and proprietary software
Optimize and refine music pipelines across League Studio games
Identify, create, grow and troubleshoot music features and functionality
Develop, document and prototype efficient pipelines or workflows for interactive music
Setup new pipelines within Perforce and Wwise project
Manage Wwise project organization, structures, gameplay parameter setups and optimizations
Mix music in game using middleware and engine feature sets
Work with external vendors to ensure they deliver high-quality work
Collaborate with Audio Leads and Product Stakeholders to define appropriate processes and pipelines for effective music content delivery
Collaborate with central teams to ensure thematic consistency across in-game and out-of-game features