Lead Tech UI Designer

3 Months ago • 6-8 Years • UI/UX Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Lead a team (2-6) of Technical UI designers on Fortnite Festival's music experiences. Guide the team in building features and systems using Unreal Engine, UMG, Blueprints, and view models. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver features to millions of players. Responsibilities include establishing best practices, building UI tools, addressing tech debt, fostering mentorship, and collaborating with other UX/UI leads for strong cross-team relationships. Requires professional engine experience (UE4 preferred), 3D-package experience, scripting language proficiency (Blueprints, etc.), and experience in hiring and managing teams. Passion for music is a plus.
Must have:
  • Lead a team of Tech UI designers
  • Unreal Engine, UMG, Blueprints expertise
  • Experience hiring and managing teams
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Problem-solving in complex spaces
Good to have:
  • Experience with other engines (Unity, etc.)
  • Experience with visual or scripting languages (Lua, etc.)
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, 401k match
  • Mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and 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.

DESIGN

What We Do

We design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative, while problem solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. We approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for a passionate Lead Technical UI Designer to work on Fortnite Festival. In this position, you will lead and manage a team of Technical UI designers (2–6) working on major music experiences at Epic. You will guide your team to build well thought out features and systems using Unreal Engine, UMG, Blueprints, and view models. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ship features to millions of players around the world.

In this role, you will

  • Lead a team of Tech UI designers working on music experiences; work collaboratively across multiple teams to create consistency
  • Set up a culture of mentorship and excellence within the Tech UI design craft
  • Collaborate with other UX/UI leads to ensure great communication is happening and stronger cross-team relationships are built
  • Establish best practices and procedures for Tech UI Design
  • Help build tools and systems that will help clear up UI tech debt, make it easier and faster to ship UI, and level up the UI overall

What we're looking for

  • A service-oriented, compassionate leader
  • Experience managing a team of 2–6 people or equivalent training
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills experience presenting to other team members and stakeholders
  • Professional engine experience (Custom engine, Unity, UE4, Lumberyard, Snowdrop, etc.), and have game industry 3D-package experience (3D Studio, Maya, etc.)
  • Experience in visual or scripting languages such as Lua, Blueprints, etc
  • Experience hiring and managing teams
  • Ability to identify issues and solve them within extremely complex problem spaces
  • Passion for music

If you have a portfolio/reel/website you'd like to share, please hyperlink it to your resume, or submit it as an attachment with your application.

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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