# Lead Sound Engineer

**Company**: Keywords Studios
**Location**: São Paulo, São Paulo
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Sound Engineer to coordinate the activities of a global team of Sound Engineers. The successful candidate will report to the Global Pre, Rec, Post and QA Manager and will be responsible for ensuring that all final assets are delivered within the agreed deadline, with quality matching or exceeding client expectations, and in a cost-effective way.

**Main Tasks:**

- Collaborate with the Global Pre, Rec, Post and QA Manager to share relevant information and escalate issues

- Onboard, train, and mentor Sound Engineers

- Schedule and approve days off for team members and ensure sufficient internal and freelance resources

- Set yearly goals and provide regular performance feedback to team members

- Coordinate the team during the scouting, onboarding, and training of new Sound Engineers

- Build productive working relationships with other Globalize teams

- Work closely with Audio Project Managers to understand project scope and requirements

- Collaborate with Recording Studio managers and provide technical support and Sound Engineer resources

- Manage and adapt planning, workflow, and resources according to workload needs

- Make independent decisions on work methods while following established standards, procedures, and requirements

**Sound Engineer Tasks:**

- Prepare recording sessions following best practices or specific project/client/recording studio needs

- Follow technical specifications in tasks performed

- Perform audio postproduction on recorded assets

- Work on other audio tasks like mixing, sound effect creation, audio batch analysis, and processing

**Support Tasks:**

- Support the Global Pre, Rec, Post and QA Manager in promoting a culture of collaboration and mutual support

- Contribute to process and tool improvement initiatives

- Work with the Global Pre, Rec, Post and QA Manager to identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and produce data-driven analysis

**Requirements:**

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English and other languages)

- Advanced knowledge of Audio Localization workflows, processes, and tools

- Advanced knowledge of digital audio workstations and innovations in the sound field

- Experience in dubbing recording and postproduction for at least 3 years

- Experience working in the videogames industry is highly preferred

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## Skills

### Required
- Audio Localization
- digital audio workstations
- dubbing recording
- postproduction
- English
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- videogames industry
- other languages

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