Senior Technical Product Manager, UE Rendering

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Rendering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Technical Product Manager for UE Rendering at Epic Games, you will drive product initiatives, collaborate with internal and external teams to understand user needs, and ensure Unreal Engine's rendering tools are best-in-class. Responsibilities include designing workflows, building solutions with engineering and UX teams, managing the product roadmap, and working with marketing/sales. You'll focus on Lumen, Nanite, material editing, and performance optimizations across platforms (consoles, mobile). The role demands subject matter expertise in real-time 3D lighting and rendering, the ability to teach these workflows, and strong communication skills.
Must have:
  • 5+ years in 3D rendering (Technical Artist, developer)
  • Real-time 3D lighting & rendering expertise
  • Ability to teach rendering workflows
  • User advocacy, strategic & tactical thinking
  • Excellent communication & relationship-building
Perks:
  • 100% premium medical, dental, vision coverage
  • Long-term disability, life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO & sick time
  • 7-year sabbatical

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.

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of industry experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

We’re looking for someone with a passion for real-time rendering to join the industry-leading Unreal Engine team to focus on our rendering systems and workflows that power next-generation console & mobile games, and cinematic quality visuals. This means being hands-on in the development process of all aspects of the engine’s lighting & rendering pipeline available to programmers and artists to continue to build first class tools and workflow for game development. This includes but is not limited to, Lumen Global Illumination, Nanite virtualized geometry, material editing and performance optimizations for authoring interactive real-time experiences that scale across all platforms.   

In this role, you will

  • Drive product initiatives with minimal direction/supervision
  • Engage with our internal Epic Games production teams and external users to understand their needs and requirements
  • Ensure our tools are best in class and meet our user expectations by regularly using, reviewing and critiquing new features and prototypes and validating them directly with our users
  • Partner with Engineering and UX teams to design workflows, and build valuable well thought out solutions
  • Apply principles, standards and best practices within the subject matter area to influence product deliverables and manage the product roadmap
  • Work with our marketing and sales teams to help them explain what problems we are solving and the value for our users

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of technical experience in the 3D rendering field (e.g. Technical Artist, developer or equivalent) working with exceptional engineering talent  
  • Subject matter expertise in real-time 3D lighting & rendering workflows for games and the ability to teach those workflows to others
  • Someone that can be the voice of our users, and think in both near-term (tactics) and long-term (strategy) 
  • Drive alignment with clever, thoughtful, and kind people as a team 
  • Excellent communication, and relationship-building skills 
  • Comfortable with change, managing complex tasks and adaptable to project scope

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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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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