Senior Platform Account Lead (Console)

2 Months ago • All levels • Business Development • $156,372 PA - $229,346 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Platform Account Lead (Console), you'll be responsible for fostering strong relationships with console platform partners, guiding Epic's console strategies, and ensuring successful execution of console projects. This involves collaborating with diverse teams (Fortnite, Unreal Engine, etc.), providing platform expertise, identifying new partnership opportunities, and contributing to process improvements. You will need significant experience working on console platforms, managing strategic relationships, and handling multiple projects simultaneously. Excellent communication is crucial, as is an understanding of gaming and the metaverse.
Must have:
  • Significant console platform experience
  • Strong relationship-building skills
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Multi-project management abilities
  • Technical background or experience with technical teams
  • Understanding of gaming and metaverse
Good to have:
  • Partnerships, business development, or game development experience
Perks:
  • 100% premium medical, dental, vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years
  • 401k with competitive match

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.

SALES AND LICENSING

What We Do

We drive adoption and usage for Unreal Engine and provide our customers with the tools and support to make amazing visual projects in the Unreal Engine.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a creative, strategic, self-motivated Senior Platform Account Lead to join our team. In this role you will drive and support Epic's goals with console platform partners across a wide range of teams and surface areas (e.g. Fortnite, Unreal Engine, Rocket League, Epic Games Store, Partnerships, Finance, BD, Legal, etc).

In this role, you will

  • Own the building and maintaining of a strong relationship with console platforms
  • Leverage your deep experience with console platforms to provide guidance and help chart the course forward
  • Work in depth with a broad array of disciplines and stakeholders across leadership, product, marketing, growth, publishing, legal and more to ensure that console projects are executed successfully and at Epic quality
  • Build and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders/teams and provide regular feedback and guidance on how best to execute in the console space
  • Provide up-to-date platform capability/policy/strategy information and risk evaluation and mitigations
  • Constantly evaluate the landscape for new partnership opportunities to increase player engagement
  • Contribute as needed to team process improvements and transparency including overall team updates and direct stakeholder updates

What we're looking for

  • Significant meaningful experience working on console platforms, ideally with experience working with external developers and/or publishers
  • Demonstrated ability to build and manage key strategic relationships (both internal and external) over time and with strong positive outcomes
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and issues in parallel and "context switch" between them fluidly
  • Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to navigate the proverbial minefields in both written and verbal engagements
  • Ability to work at lightning speed or play the long game depending on circumstances
  • Technical background or history working with highly technical teams
  • Understanding of and interest in gaming and the metaverse
  • Additional partnerships, business development, or game development experience a plus

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA & 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).

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.

California Base Pay Range
$156,372$229,346 USD
Washington Base Pay Range
$156,372$229,346 USD

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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About The Company

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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