Counsel, Marketplace

Job Description

LEGAL
What We Do
Epic's multi-specialized team of attorneys and legal professionals partner across our organization to provide legal solutions as well as consult and inform on the products we build and games we develop.
What You'll Do
Epic's Marketplaces Legal team supports Epic's digital marketplaces including the Epic Games Store (PC, Mac, iOS, and Android), Fab, Sketchfab, and Artstation. Additionally, the Marketplaces Legal team supports Epic's critically acclaimed third-party video game publishing business. Partnering closely with Epic's marketplace product and business teams (with a particular focus on the Epic Games Store), you will help manage day-to-day legal affairs for Epic's marketplace products and the Epic Games Publishing team, including partner management, product counseling, marketing, and inception-to-release support of Epic Games Publishing's diverse stable of titles in development.
In this role, you will
• Serve as representative counsel and a cross-functional stakeholder for Epic's Marketplaces Products and Epic Games Publishing for companywide initiatives, participate in escalation, strategy, and planning discussions with company leadership
• Collaborate with outside counsels, subject matter expert counsels and stakeholders on Regulatory, Compliance, Privacy, Trust and Safety, and Litigation teams, supervising and executing implementation of advice in Epic's products
• Draft, implement, revise, and update consumer and developer-facing policies, documentation, and agreements
• Draft, negotiate, and serve as a primary Legal stakeholder for key agreements related to Epic's digital marketplaces and Epic Games Publishing
• Provide specific, actionable, and risk-adjusted counsel to business units and product teams; assist customer support and marketplace operations and release management teams with addressing user and developer outreach
• Review marketing materials, product communications, UI mock-ups, product requirement documentation, and feature designs
• Drive efficiency through process optimization and the use of technology
What we're looking for
• Licensed in good standing to practice law; 6+ years legal experience, including 3+ years relevant experience focused on digital marketplaces and/or videogames (in-house experience at a fast-paced technology company preferred)
• Familiarity with global legal frameworks regulating digital marketplaces (consumer protection, IP, intermediary liability of online platforms, content moderation, privacy, online safety, AI, marketing, merchandising, etc.)
• Proven experience managing complex projects with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and outside counsel
• Proficiency in prioritization and management of multiple projects/initiatives simultaneously, from inception to completion
• Curiosity in following and engaging global legal trends and emerging legal and policy issues
• Strong issue-spotting skills; agile in prioritizing and meeting deadlines
• A natural problem-solver and strategic thinker, comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to challenging situations
• Tech-savvy and have hands-on experience working with legal technology and legal technologists to drive process and efficiency in an in-house legal department
• Familiarity with the videogame industry, e-commerce, and digital content distribution
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, an ability to operate autonomously as a legal generalist and as an expert in digital marketplaces while exercising good judgment about escalation and collaboration, and confidence in being a primary legal point of contact for Epic's marketplaces

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-9zw77k-18-118-95-74-42 in your application.