Job Description
At Penguin Random House Audio, the UK’s leading audiobook publisher, we are dedicated to making the very best audiobooks. Working with exceptional talent, producers and studios, we publish award-winning and bestselling audiobooks including Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series, Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me, Stephen Fry’s Odyssey and Gisèle Pelicot’s A Hymn to Life.
We have an exciting opportunity to join this fast-paced team as a Producer working in our in-house and partner studios.
The Role
Reporting into our Director of Audio Production, you’ll take ownership of delivering high-quality and innovative audiobooks, working closely with our editorial, studio, post-production, and operations teams.
Day to day, you can expect to be:
Directing and engineering recording sessions for a number of Penguin Studios productions, working across a broad range of genres.
Providing exceptional author care and talent management, ensuring everybody who records at Penguin Studios has a great experience.
Meticulously preparing for every recording, reading each text and creating detailed notes on pronunciation, character and tone, as well as supplying marked up scripts and notes for post-production.
Overseeing post-production on your own titles, including reviewing proof reports, listening to final masters and advising on sound effects, music and other design elements.
Managing your productions through to delivery, proactively communicating any changes or issues that could affect schedules.
Regularly feeding back learnings from recordings, promoting a culture of knowledge-sharing across the wider team.
Undertaking research to support productions or compiling pronunciations for books with extensive foreign, specialist or complex language.
What you’ll bring
We’d like to hear from you if you combine a love of literature with hands-on experience producing audio in a range of styles.
Essential criteria:
Previous experience gained in audio production, whether that be in audiobooks, radio or podcasts, including experience working in a studio environment.
An understanding of audio technology, including recording interfaces, recording software, microphones, and compressors.
Experience directing actors and readers for the best possible audio performance.
Creativity and fresh ideas about how to produce innovative, market-leading audiobooks.
Confidence working with senior stakeholders across a range of projects.
The ability to manage multiple productions autonomously, using initiative and a solution-focused approach to keep projects moving.
A keen ear for audio quality and excellent attention to detail.
Hybrid working
While our offices are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing.
For this role, all recordings and some meetings will need to be attended in person at our offices in Embassy Gardens. We are open to discussing the exact balance of office to remote working (e.g. for text prep) through the recruitment process.