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

About the Position

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

Epic Games is seeking a Director of Production to lead the licensed IP and partner titles within the Fortnite Ecosystem. This role is pivotal in bringing the world's best-known entertainment and gaming IP into Fortnite as creator-enabled experiences.

Responsibilities

• Shipping and Launch Readiness: Own launch readiness per title, chairing weekly status across all workstreams, assigning owners, chasing actions, and holding the quality bar.
• Partner Production Management: Be the production face to licensor partners, aligning on brand guidelines and content review, and carrying decisions between partners, legal, business development, and the development team.
• Platform LiveOps: Own the live operating rhythm of the platform, including release cadence, events, merchandising, discovery, and monetization health, and the feedback loop from live metrics back into the slate and roadmap.
• Production Team Leadership: Build and run the production organization with clear ownership, real delegation, and team ceremonies that hold up as the slate scales across UK and US timezones.
• Budget, Vendors, and Capacity: Own vendor statements of work, budget management and annual planning, capacity and staffing plans, and org design in partnership with discipline directors, while providing senior leadership with a high-level view of people, projects, and spend.
• Roadmap and Planning: Own the production view of the roadmap across the whole organization, keeping priorities, sequencing, and resourcing aligned across teams, disciplines, and partners.
• AI Adoption and Process Change: Lead the charge through a revolutionary period in game development, helping the team adopt AI where it makes a real difference, and evolve our production practices as the technology matures.

Requirements

• Core Skills:

  • Production Management
  • Budget Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Capacity Planning
  • Strategic Leadership

• Secondary Skills:

  • Live Operations
  • AI Adoption
  • Collaboration

We Offer

• Compensation: The expected annual base pay range for this position is $219,811-$322,389 USD.
• Location: This role is open to multiple locations across North America & Europe (including NYC).
• Benefits: In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

About the Company

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.

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