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.
UI 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.
- You have 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 language such as Lua, Blueprints, etc.
- Experience hiring and managing multiple teams.
- You’re known for thinking at big picture views strategically and identifying and solving extremely complex problem spaces.
- You’re passionate about 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.
This role is open to multiple locations across North America and Europe (including CA and WA).
Pay Transparency Information
The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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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