Senior Director, Design
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About the Position
Senior Director, Design
BLANK, BLANK, Multiple Locations
About the Company
At Epic Games, we pride ourselves on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. We are a leading interactive entertainment company, known for our award-winning games and engine technology. Our Unreal Engine technology empowers developers to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences across various platforms. We are committed to building world-class teams and fostering an inclusive work culture.
Responsibilities
As the Senior Director of Design focusing on Fortnite, you will:
- Collaborate with senior leadership to define a vision and business goals for a season within Fortnite Battle Royale, Reload, and more shooter modes.
- Manage a design team and hone the design craft for Fortnite.
- Hold that design vision across the company with clarity and excitement, and inspire the design team to follow you; uphold Epic’s design and gameplay quality bar.
- Oversee design and development from start to finish - From leading ideation with the team and shaping a timeline of engagement across the whole season, to making tough decisions on quality and scope throughout production.
- Establish a design roadmap that drives multiple seasons, along with system roadmaps that underpin those seasons.
- Work with Product Managers and Analytics teams to gain insights from player metrics and marketplace data, then translate those insights into actionable goals to improve the player experience; work with Production, discipline leads, and HR to manage staffing, feature scope, production milestones, and hiring.
- Be part of a multidisciplinary leadership team - monitoring the culture and performance of the overall Fortnite development organization.
- Focus on mentoring and empowering the design team to be independently successful and make solid decisions without your involvement; foster curiosity and healthy risk-taking.
Requirements
- Experience: Experience leading game teams from a director or other high-level design leadership perspective.
- Skills:
- Rich background in game systems that operate at scale.
- An expert-level background in a creative craft you can speak to and draw from.
- A deep understanding of what makes games tick at all levels, with a particular focus on what makes them fun, immersive experiences.
- A keen understanding of what makes the Battle Royale genre work is required.
- Passion and excitement for applying yourself to highly complicated problem spaces.
- Excellent soft skills; you are able to navigate the day-to-day ups and downs of working with a large team across many disciplines and locations with ease.
- An eye and passion for helping to creatively shape a product that goes beyond the game team.
We Offer
- Competitive salary ranging from $318,499 to $467,132 USD annually.
- Comprehensive benefits including 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, and a 401k with competitive match.
- Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
- Unlimited PTO and sick time.
- Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.
- Company-wide events and celebrations throughout the year.
About Us
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. 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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