Concept Outsource Lead (R27126)

Epic Games is seeking an experienced Concept Outsource Lead to support and supervise creative content from outsource partners for Fortnite, specifically for Disney collaborations. The role involves providing front-line creative feedback, documenting pipelines, creating quality bar assets, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure high-quality concept art that meets project needs. The ideal candidate is a talented concept artist with a strong understanding of world building, environment, character, and FX art, capable of effective communication and problem-solving within a game studio pipeline.

Must Have

• Support and supervise creative content from outsource partners
• Provide front-line creative feedback for submitted work
• Experienced concept artist with game studio pipeline experience
• Solid hands-on art background
• Understand world building, environment, character, and FX art
• Communicate effectively with outsource partners
• Document existing pipelines and create quality bar assets
• Collect photo references and create mood boards/paint overs
• Collaborate with Epic teams to ensure high-quality concept art
• Work closely with Art Leads, Art Director, and Outsource Managers
• Communicate art direction vision to vendors
• Create concept designs for environments, characters, and FX within Fortnite
• Generate detailed documentation for external vendors
• Make fixes to keep assets consistent and game-ready
• Clearly communicate feedback and ensure creative goals are met
• Portfolio demonstrating range of styles, creativity, and craftsmanship
• Strong creativity, aesthetics, stylization, and world-building visuals
• Keen eye for anatomy, design, color theory, composition, and FX
• Understanding of art translation to production groups
• Worked on at least one AAA game in a Senior Concept Artist role
• Effective communicator, collaborator, and problem solver
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to estimate tasks/maintain schedules
• Understanding of other game art disciplines (animation, character, environment, VFX)
• Experienced working in a high-pressure production environment

Good to Have

• Fluency in a language other than English (Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian)

Perks & Benefits

• 100% paid benefits for employees and dependents
• Supplemental medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Critical illness coverage
• Telemedicine
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Long term disability insurance
• Weekly indemnity (short term disability)
• Retirement savings plan with competitive employer match
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health (free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents)

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Concept Outsource Lead to support and supervise creative content provided by outsource partners as part of our collaboration with Disney. Reporting to the individual art lead(s) and working with the Outsource Manager, the Concept Outsource Lead will provide front-line creative feedback for work submitted for Epic review. Though part of the role will be supervisory, the individual should be an experienced concept artist, having worked in game studio pipelines before, and have a solid hands-on art background. The ideal candidate would be a talented concept artist who understands world building, environment, character and FX art and is able to communicate with outsource partners, including documenting existing pipelines, collecting or creating quality bar and technical example assets, collecting photo reference, creating mood boards, creating paint overs, and finally collaborating with other teams at Epic to ensure that concept art is of the highest quality and adequately supports the needs of those teams and the project.

In this role, you will

• Work closely with the individual Epic Art Leads and project Art Director, Outsource Manager(s), and artists on the team to support external vendors
• Communicate the Rt direction vision to the vendors and make sure the art generated is consistent in tone and meets epics high standards
• Create various concept designs for environments, character and FX that exist within the Fortnite ecosystem
• Collect or generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors
• If required, make any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and technically game ready as they’re handed off from the outsource partner
• Clearly communicate feedback to the outsource partner, and ensure those creative notes and goals are met. Inform leadership in the event that isn’t happening
• Communicate and partner with internal Epic art staff to ensure that outsource concept art is clear and respects limitations from other disciplines

What we're looking for

• Portfolio that demonstrates a range of styles, creativity and craftsmanship developing a broad range of visual development. From environments to characters to FX, the work should show strong creativity, aesthetics and stylization with the ability to create strong world building visuals
• A keen eye for anatomy, design, color theory, composition and FX with an understanding of how the art translates downstream to production groups
• Worked on at least one AAA game in a Senior Concept Artist role
• An effective communicator, collaborator, and problem solver able to coordinate between internal and external teams and deliver clear and concise feedback
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to accurately estimate tasks and maintain schedules
• Understanding of other game art disciplines, their workflows and limitations (animation, character, environment, VFX)
• Experienced working within a team and a high pressure production environment
• A PLUS - Fluency in a language other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian