Associate External Development Manager

What We Do

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.

What You'll Do

In this role, you’ll collaborate with the External Development team, Production, and discipline stakeholders to support external development initiatives across Fortnite. You’ll manage documentation, contracts, and communications, and support internal teams through the full lifecycle of vendor engagements.

Responsibilities

• Support the sourcing and evaluation of new external partners
• Document vendor capabilities and facilitate testing to inform project compatibility
• Support Request for Proposal (RFP) process in collaboration with Procurement and External Development stakeholders.
• Participate in regular syncs with internal teams to provide updates, forecast needs, align on priorities, and escalate blockers.
• Attend regular check-ins with related external partners.
• Document action items, triage issues, and support goal alignment
• Support well established Epic discipline teams by owning subsequent contracts & facilitating external development partner relationship
• Act as the first point of contact for respective discipline stakeholders sourcing requests and escalate issues to the right internal stakeholders.
• Quickly develop a deep understanding of the lifecycle of a request and contract pipeline
• Become familiar with procurement, legal, and financial processes related to vendor management at Epic Games.
• Quickly become familiar with tools involved in External Development processes; including but not limited to, Jira, Airtable, VNDLY, and Coupa.
• Submit SOW renewals, new contracts, and amendments to Legal
• Emphasis: Environment Art, 2D & 3D Cosmetics Art, Design, and Engineering
• Gather documentation to facilitate budget approvals with Finance and Epic stakeholders
• Assist in resolving contract-related questions from vendors and internal teams.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years game development experience
• Detail-oriented, organized, and able to multi-task
• Approachable, dependable, and a positive team presence
• Ability to work independently with strong self-direction and initiative
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships
• Comfortable managing vendor partnerships, contracts, and cross-function collaboration with efficiency and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a fast-paced environment