Lead Technical Producer

Epic Games • Cary, NC

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About The Position

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.
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 engineers and the systems they develop.
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!

Requirements

• Deep experience working with engineers 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
• 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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Engineering 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

Benefits

• Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents.
• Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match.
• We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
• Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks.
• We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed