Sound Designer
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers high value due to the prestigious employer, competitive salary, and potential for skill development in sound production.
- Competitive salary with annual revision
- Prestigious employer within the gaming industry
- Creative role in sound design for high-end games
Pros
- Opportunity to work for a renowned game developer (Kojima Productions)
- Potential for career advancement to permanent roles
- Involvement in innovative game sound design projects
Cons
- Requires high language proficiency in Japanese (JLPT N1)
- Competitive field with strong applicant pool
- Fixed working hours with flexible component may not suit all
Who it's for
Mid-level / Senior • On-site in Tokyo
Good fit
- Mid to senior-level sound designers
- Bilingual candidates with game sound experience
- Individuals keen on shaping game audio
Not recommended for
- New graduates without relevant sound experience
- Job seekers with no Japanese language skills
- Candidates looking for fully remote work
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Work Description
- Production of various sound data in high-end games
- You will perform sound-related work involved in the production of game titles, such as producing in-game sound effects, audio, cutscenes, music, sound data for promotional videos, and implementing these in games.
- If you have advanced production skills and knowledge in in-game sound effects, audio, cutscenes, music, or any other category of sound work, you may be asked to focus on the work where you can capitalise on those skills and knowledge.
Requirements
- Native level Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N1 required)
- Those who have experience in game sound production for one game title or more, or advanced knowledge and experience equivalent to this.
- The ability to communicate in Japanese is required to work closely with directors, game designers, and other team members.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive software knowledge of sound production environments and sound production tools such as sound engines, game engines and sound middleware for commercial or non-commercial use.
- Experience with sound direction in-game titles
- Knowledge of copyrighted sound-related works and licenses
- Engineer experience in Foley recording, audio recording, mixing, mastering, etc.
- Ability to communicate in multiple languages other than Japanese
- Knowledge and experience that enable you to produce and implement sound data, in consideration of optimizing various game platforms
- Technical sound design ability that enables you to devise an accurate workflow after understanding the mechanism of various sound tools, regardless of the sound engine, hardware, and software.
- Production experience and knowledge of new technologies such as immersive audio
- Knowledge and experience in localised audio data production
Required Documents
- Japanese CV (Rirekisho with photo) ※if available
- CV
- Projects/Work Samples
Please submit any work that you would like to showcase. You may choose a method of your choice, but we can only accept digital data that can be viewed on Windows.
Notes
Please exclude information about confidential matters before submitting.
[EMPLOYMENT STATUS] Contract employee (promotion to Permanent Employee is possible).
[LOCATION] Minato-ku Tokyo Japan (Nearest train station: Shinagawa station).
[WORK HOURS] 10:00 ｰ 18:45 or Discretionary Labor System
Standard work hour starts at 10:00 am. Exact work hours are left to individual discretion.
[SALARY] Annual salary, performance incentive system in place
We will take into consideration your past experiences and abilities and match them to our company regulations.
[BENEFITS] Various insurance, transportation expenses, salary revision (once a year), medical checkups, congratulatory and condolence allowances, corporate defined contribution pension plan (for Permanent Employees only), incentives (for Permanent Employees only).
[TIME-OFF] Five-day work week (2 days off, Saturday and Sunday), official holidays, summer vacation, end-of-year/New Year, paid vacation, congratulatory/bereavement leave.
