Product Management Director
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
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.
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
What We Do
Product Management partners with game development, publishing, marketing, and platform teams to provide a data and market-driven view of product strategy that aligns with business goals. As part of Epic’s Growth Team, we use our product expertise to identify and drive growth levers to grow our player base and business.
What You'll Do
The Walt Disney Company and Epic Games are collaborating on an all-new games and entertainment universe. In addition to being a world-class games experience, this new persistent universe will offer a multitude of opportunities for consumers to play, watch, and engage with content, characters, and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar, and more. Players, gamers, and fans of all kinds will be able to create their own stories and experiences, express their fandom in a distinctly Disney way, and share content with each other in ways that they love. Come join us in creating the future of interactive entertainment. Epic Games is looking for a Product Management Director. You will work with cross functional teams to drive engagement and monetization. This includes planning, executing, and measuring impact from new growth initiatives and supporting GTM for launch and other major content beats.
In this role, you will
Develop and execute engagement and monetization strategy, and partner with the production team to plan the product roadmap for a game in development
Collaborate closely with the game development teams (design, production, art, engineering) to integrate product recommendations into the roadmap, driving new growth initiatives
Manage product reporting both internally with Epic leadership and outside partners, including the preparation and facilitation of key engagement, monetization, and performance metrics
Steer product enhancements in collaboration with the Insights and User Research teams to drive actionable improvements
Drive go-to-market strategies with marketing and partnerships team for major content activations, ensuring we are expanding the game to newer audiences without churn amongst our existing playerbase
What we're looking for
6+ years of Product Management experience across live operations, launching new games/gameplay features, and feature/system design around engagement and monetization
A passion for games (especially Fortnite and/or related AAA Live Service games) and a deep understanding of the games industry as well as the growth, retention, monetization, and gameplay mechanics that create value for players
Experience bringing new gameplay features to mass market
Demonstrated ability to contribute in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
Experience analyzing large data-sets to identify actionable insights; Excel and SQL proficiency is required; Tableau, Snowflake, and Databricks proficiency is a plus
Outstanding written and oral communication skills; including experience writing concept pitches and product requirement documents
Someone who is user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
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.
ABOUT US
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!
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