About the role

  • 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

  • From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.

Job title

Senior Sound Designer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

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