Sound Design Manager

Core Responsibilities

• Drive projects and manage the full design lifecycle, from early ideation through to market launch, coordinating across teams and ensuring key milestones and deliverables are met.
• Translate design briefs, strategies and creative visions into clear objectives and actions, guiding internal teams and external partners towards shared project goals.
• Establish and communicate the sound design vision, direction and process, while aligning initiatives, setting priorities and providing constructive feedback to colleagues.
• Combine sound design and project management expertise to support high-quality, results-focused deliveries.
• Build strong partnerships across the product development cycle and present concepts, projects and prototypes to stakeholders in clear and compelling ways.
• Identify critical risks and development roadblocks, helping teams define practical action plans that keep projects moving forward.
• Advocate for sound design from both creative and technical perspectives, providing precise analysis and documentation that supports brave, innovative concepts.

Play Your Part in Our Team Succeeding

• Join the Sound Design Team within Interaction Design in Billund, Denmark.
• Work across a varied portfolio of digital and physical products, partnering closely with model designers, marketers, app developers and other specialists to support interactive play innovation.
• Contribute to new product experiences in development as well as products already available in the market.
• Use curiosity and innovative mindset to help push the boundaries of interactive play, create greater longevity in play and bring new experiences to children around the world.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in Sound Design and Audio Engineering, including technical implementation methods such as synthesis and procedural audio systems.
• A strong portfolio of physical and digital products, either successfully launched or demonstrating leading innovation, where you led sound design from initial concept through to delivery.
• Experience developing connected products, services, toys or video games, including developing and iterating audio system designs.
• The ability to inspire and align designers, partners and stakeholders through hands-on demonstrations, engaging presentations and effective collaboration.
• Expertise in designing, prototyping and visualising play experiences through both digital and physical methods.
• Project management experience within an engineering or technical environment, including familiarity with Confluence, Jira or similar systems.
• Industry-standard audio mixing and mastering capabilities.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Beneficial Experience

• Screen-free interactive experiences.
• Audio design and implementation for embedded hardware.
• Psychoacoustics, early childhood education, research or communications.
• Sonic branding or UX design.
• A passion for creating magical experiences for children and exploring play in all its forms.

Application Requirements

• Provide CV, motivational letter, and portfolio in English.
• Mandatory portfolio upload (maximum upload size per file is 2 MB). If sharing more than 2 MB, add a link clearly highlighted in the CV.

What’s in it for You

• Family Care Leave: Enhanced paid leave options for important times.
• Insurances: Life and disability insurance covering all colleagues to provide protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing: Resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount: Generous colleague discount from day 1.
• Bonus: Reward through a bonus scheme when goals are reached and if eligible.
• Hybrid Working: Best of Both hybrid work model offering the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week.

Culture and Workplace Experience

• Strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
• Highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay, encouraging applicants from all backgrounds (e.g., sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion).
• Fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening as a condition of the offer.