Senior Sound Designer
A full time Sound Designer position
Fully remote: working with a USA-based team at Airship.
Salary range: $60,000 to $70,000 (yearly rate) - subject to experience plus health, dental and disability insurance, paid vacation and sick time, and an employer-matched 401k program
COMPANY
Airship is the podcast production company behind "American Scandal," "American History Tellers," "Business Movers," “History Daily” and more, led by host and producer Lindsay Graham (no, not that Lindsey Graham). We also run IntoHistory.com, a subscription channel and network of affiliated history podcasts. As our slate of podcasts grows, we're looking for a thoughtful and creative Senior Sound Designer who’s capable of leading a team to create conjuring cinematic, moving and human moments in audio.
POSITION
Airship podcasts are renowned for their high production values, and this position will be critical to ensuring their current level of quality and success. A successful Senior Sound Designer will have an intuitive sense for drama, know how nuance can make or break the reality of a scene, and understand that sound design is the unsaid dialog and subtext of the narrative.
Duties include,
- Leading the Airship sound design team through coaching and mentoring
- Building immersive sound designed scenes that bring the story alive
- Laying in pre-composed music to enhance the narrative
- Responding to notes and editing changes and corrections
- Prioritizing work to meet deadlines
- Raising the bar in audio production quality
As we're using the term, "Sound Design" is the intricate and detailed use of pre-recorded sound effects and manipulating them through spatialization, reverberation, echo, EQ and other devices to create a realistic audio world in which characters can be felt to exist.
Prior sound design experience is required; all candidates should be prepared to submit examples of their work, and a paid skills test may be required. We’re a collaborative, cross-functional team, with many hands touching each project, so software and work methods are standardized. All candidates must be familiar with Cockos Reaper and willing to learn established workflows and processes.
We're very eager to find candidates who love audio storytelling, who enjoy the work, are good at the work, and want to cultivate a mutually beneficial, long-term professional relationship.
REQUIREMENTS
The perfect candidate will have a deep enthusiasm for audio and an appreciation of history. Beyond the SFX and reverb sends, they will have a passion for podcasts, love storytelling, be a creative, innovative thinker and an inspiring team leader.
Desired:
- Five or more years experience working in a deadline-driven field (journalism, publishing, advertising, radio, podcasts, television, film, theater)
- A significant and demonstrable body of work in sound design
- Knowledge of productivity software including spreadsheets, word processing and document formatting, business communication tools, and others (e.g., Google Sheets, MS Excel, Google Docs, MS Word, Slack, Monday.com)
- Significant experience with Digital Audio Workstation software (professional audio programs like Pro Tools or Logic, with Reaper preferred)
- Familiarity with Airship podcasts
COMPENSATION
$60,000.00 - $70,000.00USD per year, based on experience. Benefits include health, dental and disability insurance, paid vacation and sick time, and an employer-matched 401k program.
Airship values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, education, political affiliation, veteran status, or genetic information.
HOW TO APPLY
Airship is a growing company based in Dallas, TX with employees and key partners in Austin, Los Angeles, New York and the UK. The position can be fully remote, or hybrid in Dallas.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs@airship.fm. In your cover letter, please include some discussion of your ability to manage and mentor a team, as well as some examples of your sound design work.
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What does a Sound Designer role normally entail?
The Podcast Taxonomy definition for a role like this in Audio Post-Production says: “The Sound Designer creates and composes a variety of audio elements. These elements are mostly secondary to speech, but a Sound Designer may creatively edit/produce speech elements in an artist manner.”
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