Sound Designer

Make industry-leading business podcasts with a passionate, global team.

Lower Street is a podcasting company that works with agencies, consultants, and enterprise companies to make truly excellent shows. Shows that matter, that make an impact.

We're focused on 2 things:

1. Making the best podcasts we possibly can, and

2. Continually learning and improving on what we do - both individually and as a team.

From concept to distribution, we help clients to develop their ideas into fully fledged podcasts. And it's really fun.

What's the gig?

We’re looking for an Sound Designer to join our Production Team, and will work closely with folks like Harry (CEO) and Alex (Head of Post Production).

In this role you’ll be taking rough cuts from producers, and turning them into highly polished, ready to publish, episodes.

This means finessing edits, cleaning up dialogue, working on pacing, sourcing and integrating music, creating soundscapes, as well as mixing and mastering the finished product. 

To be clear, your role will not just be that of an ‘um’ and ‘ah’ remover. It will be to elevate already great content into something truly special. 

And you wont be doing this alone - we have a collaborative and supportive team of sound designers, who work alongside a team of excellent producers, and we all share one goal: To make the best possible podcasts.

Things you'll do:

• Edit a range of interview, narrative, solo, and fictional podcasts - working from a rough cut and/or brief.
• Take rough cuts from Descript, and turn them into polished episodes in Pro Tools.
• Mixing, Mastering, sourcing and placing and editing library music, making music, and anything else required to bring the best version of the content to life.
• Coordinate and take ownership of audio, session, and any other files needed to get the episode done.
• Make great use of Pro Tools, iZotope RX, Ableton, and other programs.

Who exactly are we looking for?

In short, does this sound like you? Someone that is:

• Creative. You are able to foster and maintain the creative vision of the podcasts at Lower Street, and create work that exceeds client expectations.

• Detail-oriented. You care about the little things, and love to talk about your process with your peers.

• Proactive. You are able to take ownership of tasks, deadlines, briefs, and work efficiently with the team to get things done to deadline, every time.

• Communicative. You have excellent written and verbal communication and excel in collaboration with teammates and our hosts.

• Adaptable. You thrive when you need to find solutions, make adjustments, and receive feedback. 

Why you

For this role, you ideally have:

• Extensive experience editing podcasts.

• A great ear, with the ability to mix and master your own work.

• A desire to grow and learn from other sound designers, and work with highly skilled producers.

• The ability to work to deadlines so that shows never miss schedule.

• A critical eye and a close attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills.

Why us

• Work from anywhere. Your house in the country, a coffee shop in the city, a yurt in the forest -- we don’t mind. As long as you have strong enough wifi.

• Truly great work culture. We’re a young and small, but established company -- you can make a real impact, but we’re not in the business of micromanagement.

• Flexible Hours. Outside of ideally having some working overlap with UK working hours, we have a globally distributed, asynchronous team.

• Generous PTO, sick leave, and public holiday policy. Just throw us some notice and share where you go on holiday!

• Equipment Budget. Headphones, software, staplers, fax machine (probably not that last one) -- whatever you need to be set up for success.

• Professional Development Allowance. Courses, conference tickets, books -- we’re invested in you.

• Planned team retreats in really fun spots. At least once per year, we get together in cool places to collaborate and celebrate in person.

Learn more about us here.

How to apply

If you’re thinking: “This is totally me!” then be sure to apply here. Even if you’re thinking: “This definitely could be me!” apply anyways — we love diverse and non-traditional backgrounds.

Please, sneak the word ‘Orange’ somewhere into your application to show us you read the whole job description.

We can’t wait to meet you!

PS, We do receive all applications, please do not apply through the Contact Us form on the website, thank you!

*Please note, this is a rolling application and we are not necessarily actively hiring for an Sound Designer at this time*