Senior Dialogue Designer

Home to the record-breaking crowdfunded space simulator MMO Star Citizen and the action-packed cinematic story campaign Squadron 42 with its star-studded cast, the dialogue design team have the opportunity to record amazingly talented AAA actors, manage huge amounts of assets, design innovative voice effects, and implement dialogue for both projects in a cooperative and cross-disciplinary environment!

Our tech-savvy team maintains high quality and consistency of dialogue assets, while supporting our amazing game designers and producers in creating cinematic narrative wonders for our players.

Founded in 2012 by renowned game developer Chris Roberts, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) is one of the largest global independent studios, dedicated to delivering next-generation AAA games. CIG prides itself in thinking outside the box, encouraging creativity and developing ground-breaking technology. CIG believes in raising the bar for the gaming industry and the community as a whole.

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What does a Senior Dialogue Designer at CIG do?

• Record, edit, and master all types of dialogue audio assets and metadata to a high standard while ensuring consistency is maintained over numerous sessions.
• Manage all forms of audio dialogue implementation, runtime effects design, and dynamic in-game mixing, ensuring an engaging and immersive dialogue experience.
• Maintain and drive improvements in all dialogue related audio pipelines and workflows from pre-production to implementation and QA processes.
• Report to Dialogue Lead and Production regularly and update all relevant parties with issues or blockers, as well as info-share in your successes and experiences gained.
• Collaborate regularly with upstream teams as well as other content teams like Facial Animation and Narrative to align on project vision and pipelines.
• Mentor junior sound designers to keep the whole team motivated and engaged.

What do we expect from our Senior Dialogue Designers?

• Well-versed in production sound, especially with performance-capture or film where timecode is required for sync.
• Video-game audio-design experience with a priority on games shipped/credited and work at a studio level
• Solid working experience with spectral dialogue editorial, such as iZotope RX Advanced or other industry equivalents.
• Working experience and high-level operation of DAWs such as Reaper, Pro Tools, or other industry standards.
• Capability with audio middleware such as Wwise, or game engines such as Lumberyard, is extremely appreciated.
• Skilled with Excel for file and script management and an eye for attention to detail.
• Passion for dialogue in video games or other forms of entertainment.

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