Lead Technical Producer

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

PRODUCTION

What We Do

Whether it’s driving a vision from start to finish or collaborating with teams to inspire and deliver projects of Epic quality, Epic’s production teams take pride in consistently delivering world-class products and experiences.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Lead Producer to join us on the Fortnite Core Tech team, driving one of our major R&D tech programs which involves large cross-team and cross-functional groups. These involve low level game and engine systems, including internal developer workflows and processes. Potential options include internal devops and stability, tech initiatives related to the editor, and reducing time to play.

In this position, you will partner with the broader Fortnite organization and specific team leadership across the company to manage goals, executions, and outcomes of this program. We’re looking for individuals who excel in multitasking, thrive in chaos, possess great communication skills, and are comfortable managing roadmaps and schedules of a group of opaque initiatives. Ideal candidates have experience in game or engine development or hardware frameworks, and have directly worked with programmers and the systems they develop.

In this role, you will

Partner with the Programming Directors, Product Owners, and exec stakeholders to define strategies and initiatives for the program

Develop a roadmap feedback loop which can speak to health, risk, progress, and roll that up to the broader org

Help scale operations to support the broader Metaverse vision

You may directly manage producers, or you may be operating individually but influencing other teams in what they do and how they do it

Operate 50% at a high level and 50% in the details managing technical work

What we're looking for

Deep experience working with programmers and on technical projects

Able to drive high level goals/vision and also dig into technical details

Experience managing outcomes for the program and know enough to confirm the validity of the underlying plan

Understands how complex systems work, what they do, and why. Wants to know how everything works

Strong skills in organizing unstructured work and managing multiple competing needs

Experienced with devops, game engines, platforms, and tools is highly desired

Deep experience managing large team roadmaps, rallying individual teams around common goals

Experience in managing/growing team orgs to scale for demand

Experienced working with strong personalities and still achieve the desired results

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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