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Director, Production (Licensed IP and Partner Titles - Fortnite Ecosystem)

Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations · On-site

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About Epic Games

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

Epic's third-party content group brings the world's best-known entertainment and gaming IP into Fortnite as creator-enabled experiences built with Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), funding and shipping a growing slate of licensed and partner titles through external studios and vendors while operating the live platform where that content is discovered and grows. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Significant experience shipping games or live services from inside a first-party or internal development organisation
  • Experience managing multiple external partners in parallel (licensors, publishers or studios), including publishing production
  • Experience leading live operations for a platform or live service at scale
  • Demonstrated experience owning multi-million dollar budgets, vendor management and capacity planning, with the ability to present and defend them at the executive level
  • Proven ability to establish production methodologies and standards that drive adoption across teams and the broader organization
  • Strong people leader who builds effective teams, structures, and empowers others through delegation, while being able to grow a production organisation and protect team health as the slate scales
More about this role

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.

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.

Epic's third-party content group brings the world's best-known entertainment and gaming IP into Fortnite as creator-enabled experiences built with Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), funding and shipping a growing slate of licensed and partner titles through external studios and vendors while operating the live platform where that content is discovered and grows.

As the program scales with more titles, larger partnerships and major launches ahead, this role will be the...

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