Sound Designer developing innovative audio experiences for General Motors vehicles. Collaborating on multimodal user experiences and advanced sound strategies across brands.
Responsibilities
Develop an advanced sound strategy for the GM portfolio, collaborating with leadership to convert brand identities into musical language and frequency.
Collaborate with Advanced Design, UX/UI teams, and the Noise & Vibration (N&V) center to create a comprehensive Sound Journey Map for vehicle audio.
Integrate audio considerations into all areas of vehicle design and development.
Design AI-based conversational and multimodal experiences, advocating for usability and user-centered design principles.
Leverage usability testing, various research methodologies, and user stories to contribute to requirements.
Utilize expertise in sound creation/production tools (Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Matlab) to craft compelling audio experiences for all GM brands.
Promote conversation design best practice standards, reusable interactional patterns, and processes.
Document design requirements, including sample dialogs, conversational flow diagrams, prototypes, and multimodal flows to communicate convey voice and haptic interactions and design ideas that leverage AI.
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to understand priorities, collaborate on actions to implement product and service solutions, and ensure a connected end-to-end user experience.
Requirements
5+ years of experience creating conversational design or automotive audio experiences.
Formal education in classical music, music theory, musical history, or commensurate work experience.
Proficient in common design tools (e.g.Figma, VoiceFlow, ProtoPie, etc).
Proven experience in sound design and production, with a portfolio demonstrating expertise, craft, aesthetics, research, and depth of thought.
Demonstrated experience with creating interactive prototypes for multimodal experiences (voice, sound, visuals, touch, chat, etc).
Previous experience designing for Generative or Agentive AI-powered experiences (prompt engineering/prompt chaining).
Basic understanding of machine learning & natural language processing (NLP) fundamentals.
Skilled in creative problem-solving, effective communication, and maintaining meticulous attention to detail while working independently in a dynamic production environment.
Benefits
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