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Senior Sound Designer with 10+ years of experience designing and implementing high-impact audio for live, combat-heavy gameplay at scale. Deep expertise in game audio hierarchy, mix clarity, and player feedback—ensuring responsiveness and readability in fast-paced teamfights and high-stakes moments. Hands-on with Unity audio implementation and iterative tuning through playtests and live service post-release polish. Strong collaborator across design, VFX, animation, and engineering, with a proven track record delivering shipped, production-ready sound in fast-moving development environments.…Senior Sound Designer with 10+ years of experience designing and implementing high-impact audio for live, combat-heavy gameplay at scale. Deep expertise in game audio hierarchy, mix clarity, and player feedback—ensuring responsiveness and readability in fast-paced teamfights and high-stakes moments. Hands-on with Unity audio implementation and iterative tuning through playtests and live service post-release polish. Strong collaborator across design, VFX, animation, and engineering, with a proven track record delivering shipped, production-ready sound in fast-moving development environments.

Marco Bustos

Sound Designer, Lead Sound Engineer, Audio Engineer, +4

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Senior Sound Designer with 10+ years of experience designing and implementing high-impact audio for live, combat-heavy gameplay at scale. Deep expertise in game audio hierarchy, mix clarity, and player feedback—ensuring responsiveness and readability in fast-paced teamfights and high-stakes moments. Hands-on with Unity audio implementation and iterative tuning through playtests and live service post-release polish. Strong collaborator across design, VFX, animation, and engineering, with a proven track record delivering shipped, production-ready sound in fast-moving development environments.…Senior Sound Designer with 10+ years of experience designing and implementing high-impact audio for live, combat-heavy gameplay at scale. Deep expertise in game audio hierarchy, mix clarity, and player feedback—ensuring responsiveness and readability in fast-paced teamfights and high-stakes moments. Hands-on with Unity audio implementation and iterative tuning through playtests and live service post-release polish. Strong collaborator across design, VFX, animation, and engineering, with a proven track record delivering shipped, production-ready sound in fast-moving development environments.

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Senior Sound Designer with 10+ years of experience designing and implementing high-impact audio for live, combat-heavy gameplay at scale. Deep expertise in game audio hierarchy, mix clarity, and player feedback—ensuring responsiveness and readability in fast-paced teamfights and high-stakes moments.

Hands-on with Unity audio implementation and iterative tuning through playtests and live service post-release polish. Strong collaborator across design, VFX, animation, and engineering, with a proven track record delivering shipped, production-ready sound in fast-moving development environments.

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Work Experience

Sr. Sound Designer at Riot Games

December 31, 2024 - Present

Led a team of sound designers in creating and implementing sound designs for a wide range of projects, including Skins, Huds, Skin Events and Outsourcing. Developed and maintained sound design standards and best practices for the team to ensure consistency and quality. Collaborated with producers, directors, and other team members to understand project requirements and deliver sound designs that meet or exceed expectations. Managed project timelines and budgets to ensure on-time delivery and cost-effectiveness. Stayed current on industry trends and technologies to continuously improve sound design processes and techniques.

Senior Sound Designer at Riot Games

January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025

Owned end-to-end sound design for live gameplay content, including champions, skins, and combat systems. Designed and implemented magic spells, melee, and allied audio to support gameplay readability, timing, and player decision-making in teamfight scenarios. Integrated and tuned audio directly in-engine, balancing hierarchy, distance, and mix clarity at scale. Collaborated with designers, VFX, animation, and engineering to align audio with mechanics and performance constraints, iterating rapidly based on playtests and player feedback to polish content post-release in a live environment.

Manager of Sound Design at Riot Games

January 1, 2023 - October 21, 2025

Sr. Sound Designer at Riot Games

January 1, 2023 - Present

Led a team of sound designers in creating and implementing sound designs for a wide range of projects, including Skins, HUDs, Skin Events and Outsourcing. Developed and maintained sound design standards and best practices for consistency and quality. Collaborated with producers, directors, and other team members to understand project requirements and deliver sound designs that meet or exceed expectations. Managed project timelines and budgets to ensure on-time delivery and cost-effectiveness. Stayed current on industry trends and technologies to continuously improve sound design processes and techniques.

Manager of Sound Design at Riot Games

January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023

Led a team delivering high-volume sound design for skins, HUDs, and personalization features while staying hands-on with asset creation and implementation. Established sound design standards and workflows to maintain quality and consistency across live content. Directed and reviewed outsourced audio, ensuring assets met gameplay, technical, and aesthetic requirements.

Interim Audio Director / Sr. Sound Designer at Riot Games

January 1, 2020 - October 21, 2025

Created and implemented sound designs for various products, including meatgame, personalized content, VO design, champion cards, etc. Worked closely with team members to understand project requirements and deliver sound designs that meet discipline expectations in craft from me and the vendors we work with. Managed composers and sound design vendors to create original music and sound effects for playmats, pets and other parts of the game. Edited and mixed audio tracks to achieve the desired sound quality and balance. Provided technical support and troubleshooting for sound design in Unity and Wwise.

Senior / Lead Sound Designer at Riot Games

January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2021

Created and implemented sound for gameplay systems, personalized content, VO systems, and experimental features. Designed combat-focused audio emphasizing player feedback, threat communication, and impact. Provided technical audio support and troubleshooting in Unity and Wwise. Managed external composers and sound-design vendors for original music and SFX.

Champion Sound Designer at Riot Games

January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015

Designed and shipped full champion sound kits including Hecarim, Zyra, Thresh, and Yasuo. Focused on combat readability, ability timing, enemy tells, and delivering satisfying player feedback.

Re-Recording Mixer / ADR Recording Engineer at Freelance / TV & Anime

December 29, 2002 - June 19, 2011

Mixed various segments for TV and Anime. Recorded VO for commercials, promos, and ADR. Served as Recording Engineer for film and Anime programs.