Senior Audio Designer - Narrative Focus

HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content. Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community. Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies. In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas. When you apply to a position with HoYoverse, we will process your personal data. To learn more, please review our comprehensive Global Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy About the Role We are building a game where narrative is discovered through both traditional means like cutscene, and emergent gameplay elements like dialogue choices. We’re looking for someone to help craft a coherent audio story that stitches intermittent parts together to deliver a unified experience. You will be working with gameplay, narrative, and art in order to both figure out the experience that we’re want to deliver to players, as well as the internal processes used to create this non-linear story. This requires resourcefulness, clear communication, and someone who deeply understands how games feel from the player's side. You will partner with quest designers, technical designers, and engineers to build the audio functions and logic needed to deliver this experience. You will also work with and guide our in-house audio talent, elevating the audio experience through a mixture of your work and mentorship. What you will do:

• Co-create the audio vision for narrative cohesion. Craft and implement dynamic, audio systems in Wwise and UE5 to make branching gameplay feel like an authored experienced.
• Collaborate with designers across disciplines, including gameplay, systems, quest, and narrative to identify where story emerges through play. Propose audio solutions that surface and strengthen those moments.
• Help the team identify risks and keep the audio vision moving forward even when the broader design is still taking shape.
• Partner with technical personnel, including tools engineers and audio programmers. Translate the needs of systemic narrative design into clear technical requirements for our audio tools and pipelines.
• Establish and document best practices for systemic audio design, creating shared language and process across the team.
• Play the game relentlessly, and identify stylistic inconsistencies, dead zones, and poor transitions. Advocate for the audio experience across disciplines.