An Audio Producer on Gearbox’s Production Team is a critical role working directly in the trenches with developers on a project. This role operates alongside a department and/or “feature teams” as assigned to one of our titles. The Audio Producer is responsible for coordinating milestone/sprint planning, ensuring there is effective communication between teams, maintaining and reporting status of each area of responsibility, and working with other Producers to make it all come together. A Producer at Gearbox is committed to making the game creation process easier for their team and the broader company.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Attend meetings as audio department representative voicing feedback or concerns on scope / schedule bloat, risk assessment, pipeline blockers.
Attend production meetings and act as a department ambassador.
Proactively communicate across project disciplines about the project needs and audio requirements
Coordinate with project management and audio leadership to facilitate staffing across multiple projects
Work closely with audio leadership to communicate team status
Create, maintain, and track audio tasking and scheduling for multiple projects.
Help with managing the overall schedule and workload of the audio team.
Attend reoccurring check-ins with audio team members for task tracking oversight.
Prioritize tasks based on project needs and triage bugs
Work with audio leadership to facilitate external partner material needs.
Log meeting notes and transcribe them as action items when necessary.
Understand and plan for major project milestones and deliverables
Communicate with QA department on status of audio
Facilitate onboarding of new staff

WHAT MAKES YOU THE RIGHT PERSON

You are an enthusiastic and positive person that can motivate others
You have unique X-Factors that you can offer the team where we can learn from you as much as you can learn from us!
You desire to grow both individually and with the team
You love games and have a passion for game making and helping others be as creative as possible
You can make decisions that are best for the project, even difficult decisions that are potentially against the grain

REQUIREMENTS

Direct experience coordinating and/or managing efforts in AAA game development in an Audio Producer or Associate Audio Producer role. (or equivalent work/life experience)
A strong understanding of schedules, pipelines, and dependencies developing games
Fluent or able to use Perforce (or other source control)
Willing to navigate Unreal Engine 4 as necessary to help get the job done.
An understanding and experience with Wwise audio middleware.
Exercise strong JIRA skills and leverage how it can be applied to help organize and track efforts
Experience creating and/or maintaining spreadsheets or schedules to forecast efforts, identify risks, and provide status updates
BONUSES: Bachelors and higher education degree that is applicable to the role, familiarity or understanding of Audio production, expert or consider oneself awesome using Excel