Lead Technical Producer

3 Days ago • 4-8 Years • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

The Lead Technical Producer at Epic Games will partner with the Fortnite Core Tech team to drive stability, performance, and engine development. Responsibilities include defining strategies and initiatives, developing roadmaps, scaling the team, managing direct reports, and owning complex initiatives like Lighthouse and UEFN. The role requires deep experience with engineers and technical projects, managing large team roadmaps, and understanding complex systems. Success requires strong organizational skills, experience with game engines and platforms, and the ability to manage strong personalities while achieving desired outcomes. The position involves 50% high-level strategic planning and 50% detailed management of technical initiatives.
Must have:
  • Deep experience with engineers and technical projects
  • Manage high-level goals and technical details
  • Understand complex systems
  • Manage multiple competing needs
  • Experience with game engines
  • Manage large team roadmaps
  • Manage/grow teams
  • Work with strong personalities
Perks:
  • 100% employer-paid benefits for employees and dependents (medical, dental, life insurance)
  • Daily meal vouchers
  • Commuter benefits

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.

PRODUCTION

What We Do

Whether it’s driving a vision from start to finish or collaborating with teams to inspire and deliver projects of Epic quality, Epic’s production teams take pride in consistently delivering world-class products and experiences.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Lead Producer to join us on the Fortnite Core Tech team. In this position you will partner with the broader Fortnite org to help drive stability, performance, and engine development. Our team of producers focuses on platform, rendering, performance, server, game architectures, and our build pipeline. We’re looking for individuals who excel in multitasking, thrive in chaos, great communication skills, and are comfortable managing roadmaps and schedules of R&D initiatives. Ideal candidates have experience in game development or hardware frameworks, and have directly worked with engineers and the systems they develop.

In this role, you will

  • Partners with the FNTech Engineering Director to define strategies and initiatives for the vertical. Develops a roadmap feedback loop for the vertical which can speak to health, risk progress, and roll that up to the broader org.
  • Helps scale the team org and operations to support the broader Metaverse vision
  • Directly manages the Tech-Platform and Tech-Perf Prod Lead, their production org, and their initiatives. Responsible for individual growth plans and progress, that we hit quality bars for each release, and that their initiatives achieve the desired outcomes.
  • Will own some complex initiatives that needs senior direction - for example Lighthouse, UEFN
  • Operates 50% at a high level and 50% in the details managing technical initiatives

What we're looking for

  • Deep experience working with engineers and on technical projects
  • Able to drive high level goals/vision and also dig into technical details. Need to manage outcomes for the vertical but also directly own some initiatives
  • Understands how complex systems work, what they do, and why. Wants to know how everything works.
  • Strong skills in organizing unstructured work and managing multiple competing needs
  • Experience with game engines, platforms, rendering, tools, backend systems is highly desired
  • Deep experience managing large team roadmaps, rallying individual teams around common goals
  • Experience in managing/growing team orgs to scale for demand
  • Experienced working with strong personalities and still achieve the desired results

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). Our current benefits package includes coverage for medical, dental, and life insurance. We also offer supplemental benefits including daily meal vouchers, and commuter benefits for onsite employees.

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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