Lead Audio Engineer at Side in London, England, GB

Side is a global video game development and services provider, offering technical and creative solutions to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in 2009 and drawing on 30+ years' experience from our parent company in Japan, Side has since grown to become a global force with 15+ studios in over a dozen countries across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia.

Our industry-leading services include game development, art production, audio production, quality assurance, localization, localization QA, player support, community management, and datasets.

Help us bring stories to the world! Join a global team of passionate gamers and contribute to delivering unforgettable game experiences.

For more information, visit http://www.side.inc.

As the Lead Audio Engineer at SIDE, you will be responsible for the supervision of the technical staff, facility equipment and studio operations, helping to ensure the timely completion of agreed deliverables and milestones, to a very high standard. For an outsource company it’s the ‘high quality’ that brings back returning clients and keeps the awards coming.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Daily management of staff, including project output, addressing issues, and resolving and escalating to senior management were required.

• Review and approve department hours for TA’s and Engineers ensuring and highlighting any concerns to senior management.

• Work with the production team on setting up external studios for recordings, either locally or remotely.

• Organize and allocate jobs to staff through the work diary and ensure excellent communication between all departments.

• Liaise with clients about best technical practices for their session.

• Liaise with staff about best technical practices for their session.

• Be on standby to engineer studio and location sessions – from wild dialogue recording to location off-site recording.

• Help prepare studio sessions’ assets such as audio and video reference files and dialogue scripts.

• Help maintain studios and studio equipment, including defining new tech needed.

• Develop studio services, processes, and workflow.

Management

• Work with the Directors, Heads of Department, and Managers to lead SIDE as the market leader in its field.

• Supervision and development of the studio team, including allocation of projects.

• Conduct regular 1to1’s to issue feedback on performance in relation to KPI and tasks undertaken.

• Identify Recruitment needs and management of resource planning.

• Track and monitor studio budget and highlight concerns to senior management.

• To work in collaboration with the other heads and senior management team to ensure best practices are kept.

• Excellent client facing and internal communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.

• 5+ years’ experience in a commercial audio Postproduction role, ideally working for some time within studio,

• Experience working with across multiple projects and languages,

• The ability to strategize and allocate resources for upcoming projects.

• Experienced user of Pro Tools and other DAWs.

• Experienced with video workflows, tracklaying and ADR through VoiceQ.

• Experienced user of Audition, RX or other similar software.

• Experienced user of MS Office, especially Excel.

About Side

• 20 days holiday + bank holidays – plenty of time to relax and recharge
• Company pension – plan for the future
• Cycle-to-work scheme & onsite gym – stay active and healthy
• Team socials & vibrant community – inclusive of all LGBTQ+, ages, ethnicities, religions, and abilities
• Dedicated wellbeing programme – we’ve got your mental and physical health covered
• Brand-new Kings Cross studios – with café, pub, and easy transport links