Director, Production

WHAT MAKES US EPIC

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

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

PRODUCTION

What We Do

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

What Youll Do

As the Director Production you will own the end-to-end strategy for delivering in-game cosmetic content across our portfolio of titles directly impacting Epics financial performance by ensuring content ships on time and at the quality bar that drives player engagement and purchase. The art production team reports directly to this role and this leader serves as the primary advocate for art producers at Epic and the critical connection point between Art and Art Production. Partnering closely with the Sr. Director Art you will co-own strategy maintain and optimize scalable production pipelines and ensure the right requirements budgets approval workflows and talent structures are in place to meet aggressive launch and post-launch targets.

In this role you will

• Maintain and continuously improve the existing cosmetics production pipeline and art production suite of tools ensuring reliable on-time delivery of art assets across multiple titles. Proactively identify opportunities to boost efficiency close process gaps and evolve practices to meet the demands of both launch and live-service commitments
• Own cross-functional project planning including schedules roadmaps and milestone tracking with clear visibility into dependencies across art programming product and partner teams. Lead tradeoff discussions with executive and functional leadership when scope timeline or resources are in conflict
• Lead capacity planning for the art organization including internal teams and external outsource partners. Quantify staffing risks across concurrent projects and develop mitigation strategies to keep cosmetics production on schedule
• Partner with the Sr. Director Art on all executive-facing communication including project status risks budget and delivery forecasts. Establish a framework for evaluating cosmetics performance post-launch to inform future content strategy and resourcing decisions
• Champion operational excellence across the art production org identifying and sharing best practices tooling improvements and process efficiencies that scale beyond individual projects. Actively mentor art producers
• Lead and champion the art production team which reports directly to this role. Serve as their primary advocate at Epic building clear paths for growth holding a high bar for excellence and cultivating a culture where producers are empowered and valued. Act as the bridge between Art and Art Production fostering the trust and collaboration needed for both organizations to thrive

What were looking for

• 10 years of production experience including significant time in a leadership role managing large-scale art content pipelines in games film or entertainment
• Proven ability to lead production teams through ambiguity competing priorities and high-pressure release cycles
• Deep familiarity with dependency-driven production pipelines asset tracking systems and project management tools (e.g. Flow/Shotgrid Jira or equivalent). Comfortable with emerging technologies and new workflows
• Strong executive communication skills comfortable presenting risks and tradeoffs to senior leadership and driving alignment across functions. Comfortable with budgets and cost projections.
• Experience managing external outsource relationships and vendor workflows
• Track record of building collaborative partnerships across art vendor management programming product and business stakeholders
• Highly detail-oriented with strong organizational discipline; able to manage complex multi-threaded workstreams without losing sight of the details that determine success or failure
• Strategic thinker who can connect production decisions to business outcomes balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term scalability and revenue impact
• Flexible skillset with the ability to operate in different production environments

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 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 is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years weve 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. Epics 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.

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