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Overview

We are looking for a new Editor to join our Sound Design and Audio Engineering team in Los Angeles or New York. This role supports audio development across Paramount Creative and Strategy focusing on sound design, mixing, and maintaining the department's audio pipeline. The Editor is a hands-on creative who understands narrative rhythm, pacing, and sound as a storytelling tool. They work alongside editorial, design, screens, brand, events, social content, and experiential teams with consistency, taste, and technical accuracy. This position reports to the Paramount Creative & Strategy Executive Producer.



Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Execute sound design and mixing across Paramount Creative and Strategy projects including editorial, motion graphics, screens, brand, social, presentation, experiential, and internal communications

• Build detailed soundscapes, custom sound effects, environmental textures, and audio treatments that elevate storytelling and design in both long form and short form content

• Deliver fast turnaround mixes and sound design for social media, short form campaigns, and rapid response creative

• Create dynamic and impactful audio for sizzles, sales tapes, recaps, and high energy internal or external business content

• Support voice over sessions, interviews, talent records, and in room sessions

• Record clean production sound on set including interviews, dialogue, ambience, and practical effects

• Maintain and troubleshoot audio hardware, software, plug ins, musical instruments, electronic instruments, and workstations

• Support audio workflows, deliverable standards, session organization, versioning, archiving, and technical consistency

• Collaborate with editors, motion designers, producers, screens teams, creative directors, and senior management

• Coordinate with freelancers and external vendors as needed

• Deliver polished mixes for linear playback, looping environments, adaptive installations, large format displays, social platforms, and multi-platform outputs

• Maintain organized sound effect libraries, sample libraries, instrument libraries, and audio databases

• Support innovation by incorporating modern workflows, new tools, and evolving AI assisted sound practices

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years professional experience in sound design, audio engineering, and mixing for visual media

Additional Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Pro Tools, Logic, and modern plug in ecosystems

• Understanding of signal flow, microphones, recording techniques, audio repair tools, noise reduction, cleanup workflows, mixing, mastering, and gain staging

• Experience capturing production audio across a variety of environments including studios, offices, remote locations, and field settings

• Creative instincts for pacing, rhythm, short form punch, long form immersion, and sound driven storytelling

• Experience supporting voice over sessions

• Exemplary communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams

• Highly organized, attention to detail, and the ability to work with composure and accuracy under deadlines

Composition

• Ability to compose original music in a variety of styles

• Experience adapting musical ideas to editorial, motion, and design driven content

• Working knowledge of musical instruments including keyboards, guitars, percussion, andother studio instruments

• Comfort with electronic instruments, drum machines, digital samplers, modular tools, and modern software based instruments

• Understanding of virtual instruments, sample libraries, synthesizers, sound creation, and composition workflow

Visual Arts & AI

• Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere or After Effects

• Ability to support simple animation, timing adjustments, transitional elements, or audiodriven visual tasks

• Experience with modern creative tools such as Runway, Sora, or Eleven Labs

• Familiarity with integrating audio into design, editorial, motion, and screens pipelines

• Experience using 3D tools such as Blender or Cinema 4D

• Comfort working alongside AI assisted creative workflows and hybrid post production environments

Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, and Pluto TV, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the US television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $70,000.00 - 85,000.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York City, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.

What We Offer:

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here: https://www.paramount.com/careers/benefits

• Generous paid time off.

• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount's most dynamic teams.

• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.

• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.

• Explore life at Paramount: https://www.paramount.com/careers/life-at-paramount

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-mkxxpv-172-71-23-173-42 in your application.