Commercial Contracts Group Lead

3 Months ago • 6 Years + • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

As Lead of Epic's Commercial Contract Group (CCG), you'll manage and lead the team, overseeing internal counsel and contract specialists, as well as external counsel. Responsibilities include updating Epic's contract management program, ensuring efficient processes across the contract lifecycle, and shepherding complex contracts. You will also be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies. Collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders is crucial for developing best practices and improving contract management tools. You will act as a main point of contact for internal business partners regarding contract-related questions.
Must have:
  • 6+ years relevant experience
  • Program/project management experience
  • Experience with complex contract negotiation
  • Excellent communication & organizational skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Good to have:
  • Tech or gaming industry experience
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage (medical, dental, vision)
  • Long-term disability & life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO & sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

Job Details

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.

LEGAL

What We Do

Epic's multi-specialized team of attorneys and legal professionals partner across our organization to provide legal solutions as well as consult and inform on the products we build and games we develop.

What You'll Do

As Lead of Epic’s Commercial Contract Group (“CCG”), you will be responsible for continuously updating and maintaining Epic’s contract management program. Working with a cross functional group of stakeholders (including Legal Counsel, Procurement, Finance, Risk Management and Epic business partners), you will ensure Epic’s entire commercial contract lifecycle process is effective and efficient. You will also be responsible for managing CCG’s internal attorneys and contract specialists and overseeing CCG’s outside counsel.

In this role, you will

  • Manage and lead Epic’s commercial contracts group, which includes direct daily management of internal CCG counsel and contract specialists and ensuring the coordination and cohesion between such team leads.
  • Oversee outside counsel who assist with Epic’s commercial contracts, including without limitation, budgeting, negotiating and scoping the terms of such engagement.
  • Act as a point of escalation for CCG internal counsel, specialists and outside counsel with respect to drafting, reviewing, negotiating and managing a wide variety of commercial contracts, including without limitation, vendor agreements, NDAs, IT agreements, DPAs, HR Agreements, Sweepstakes/Contests forms and various other legal documents.
  • Be accountable for shepherding a large volume of complex contracts and/or projects throughout their full life cycle (including without limitation, coordination with internal procurement teams and all internal and external contracting parties during the contract development, negotiation, signature and retention stages); responsible for responding to stakeholder requests with respect to such.
  • Ensure Epic’s commercial contract templates and contracting processes comply with worldwide laws, regulations and Epic internal standards/policies; continuously improve and update such in coordination with Epic counsel.
  • With cross-functional stakeholders, develop and implement best practices for contract management, including the use of efficient contract management guidelines and fallback terms/clauses.
  • Work with Epic’s Legal Operations team to evaluate and improve software and tooling for contract management.
  • Partner and build relationships with business partners to forecast their recurring contract needs and anticipate and plan for large or unusual contracting needs.
  • Act as the main point of contact for internal business partners regarding daily questions about contract substance, contract renewal and contract termination. 

What we're looking for

  • Attorney or paralegal with 6+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Significant experience with program or project management, including defining program strategy and defining metrics.
  • Experience reviewing, drafting and negotiating a large volume of complex contracts.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced/dynamic environment; energized by complex challenges.
  • Experience working successfully in a global environment.
  • Experience in the tech or gaming industry is a plus.

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!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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