# Audio Designer - Agency Contract

**Company**: Playground Games
**Location**: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130744

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## Description

Playground Games is looking for an Audio Designer to work alongside their talented Forza Horizon team in Leamington Spa on an agency contract.

As an Audio Designer, you will collaborate with the Audio team to deliver world-class audio experiences with a focus on dialogue and world audio. You will implement technical systems and craft sound design across several areas including narrative, ambience, vehicles, and cinematics, while partnering with a multidisciplinary team to help deliver an outstanding player experience.

The role is based at their state-of-the-art studio in Royal Leamington Spa, operating under a hybrid working model with a minimum of three days per week in the studio.

Responsibilities:

- Design exceptional audio assets and implement robust audio systems.

- Deliver high-quality audio content within a fast-paced environment.

- Work on multiple, diverse features with the wider development team.

- Learn and develop as a part of an experienced audio team.

Requirements:

- Proven experience, with demonstrable work on at least one published title, ideally AAA.

- Proficiency with industry standard DAWs and plugins.

- In-depth knowledge of middleware (ideally FMOD).

- Experience in implementation, debugging, and optimisation of audio systems.

- The ability to quickly adapt to new technologies, tools, and pipelines.

- Team focused with excellent communication.

- A genuine passion for video games, film, and music.

- A portfolio demonstrating high-quality audio design work.

## Skills

### Required
- sound design
- audio implementation
- DAWs
- plugins
- middleware
- FMOD
- audio optimisation
- communication

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