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Role Description
- We’re looking for a placement student to join our sounds team.
- You’ll be given the opportunity to work with artists and software engineers to consistently deliver professional quality loops, samples and presets.
- This will also cover aspects such as managing sound metadata, creating sound demos, generating artwork and releasing soundpacks on a regular schedule.
- Working alongside our hardware and software teams, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that empowers music makers to realise their ideas.
Core Responsibilities Include
- As a valued team member, you’ll contribute to important decision making around the sounds we deliver
- You will review externally created audio content and manage associated sound metadata
- You’ll engage with content creators, artists and QA teams to ensure all sounds used are high quality and fit for purpose, performing basic audio restoration and repair and assisting with soundpack releases.
- Working alongside your assigned mentor, you will have the opportunity to develop existing skills as well as learn new tools and techniques.
What We’re Looking For
- Comfortable creating and editing sounds in Ableton Live.
- Passionate about music and audio technology – we all have different music taste, but the most relevant areas for our team right now are hip hop, trap, and electronic music.
- Someone who takes pride in the quality of their work, with an eye for detail.
- A teamworker who is excited about getting to learn exactly what goes into creating our sound content
About Us
Doing a 12-month placement at Focusrite is like becoming one of the family. A rapidly growing, global family. We’re focused on providing opportunities for everyone and anyone to enjoy creating music.
Our placements are very popular, and that’s mainly because you can really get stuck in during your year with us. We don’t ask you to answer the phones and do the photocopying. We want you to help develop our products, market our brands, speak to our customers and make us better. A lot of our previous placements are now full-time employees.
All placements last for 12-months. We pay you £21255 per year (£23303 for London-based roles), and you get to share in some of the same benefits as our permanent employees; an employee purchase scheme, free breakfast and lunch, health insurance, generous holiday entitlement, company music events, lunch and learns from across the business and external visits – we’re all about innovation, fresh thinking and creating awesome music making experiences for our customers.
Our nine brands, Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, Ampify, ADAM Audio, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Linea Research and Sequential come together around a common mission to remove barriers to creativity.
Please apply for as many of our placements as you wish.
Timetable for applications:
Deadline to apply: Monday 9th January 2023
Interviews: February 2023
Offers made by: Friday 17th March 2023
As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage people to apply regardless of religion, ethnic background, nationality, sexual orientation or gender identity. We recognise the diversity shortcomings of our industry and are committed to driving change. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
