Director, Social Media & Editorial

Job Description

COMMUNICATIONS

What We Do

The Epic Communications team advances the company's narrative and represents Epic products and the company vision to external and internal audiences globally. We create positive relationships and engagement strategies with a wide range of audiences, including media, investors, influencers, and policymakers.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Director, Social Media & Editorial to join the communications team to lead strategy, operations, and content development for Epic's global social media, community, and editorial channels. In this role, you will lead social, community, and editorial efforts across Epic's first party games, including Fortnite, as well as the Epic Games Store and Unreal Engine.

Working with a wide range of internal stakeholders, you'll help define social and editorial strategies to connect and build a global community of players, developers, and creators.

In this role, you will
• Lead a global team to develop highly engaging and creative content on owned channels, including TikTok, X, Instagram, Reddit, Discord, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and our blogs
• Help shape Epic's brand, voice, and impact in the global gaming and entertainment industries, and be a leader who continually champions players, developers, and creators
• Stay on the cutting edge of social and community platform changes and best practices to develop social campaigns and content for emerging platforms
• Represent the team within senior leadership meetings to articulate Epic's social strategies, results, wins, and future needs to meet business objectives
• Address reactive community issues alongside Epic's comms, policy, marketing, product, and development teams
• Empower stakeholders around the world to drive local social, editorial, and community-building opportunities in support of regional campaigns and growth initiatives
• Coordinate with external partners on social campaign planning and execution; manage relationships with social media platforms and agencies

What we're looking for
• 10+ years of experience in social media management and at least 5+ years of experience building, managing, and developing a team
• Experience working in the gaming, entertainment, and/or consumer tech industry
• Excellent understanding of editorial content and SEO; proven ability to develop and execute social-first campaigns across multiple social media platforms
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with an attention to detail
• Operational and data driven mindset, including the ability to translate campaign results into actionable insights and optimizations; lead performance analysis for editorial content and across social media platforms, including competitive analysis, to identify challenges and opportunities for continuous growth and optimization
• A self-starter with the confidence to take measured risks
• Someone who is an excellent collaborator and enjoys working cross functionally on their day-to-day work
• Experience managing team operations including campaign support, urgent needs, and prioritization to ensure game launches, events, product announcements, and other strategic beats are supported effectively and at high quality

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 here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r16o0y-3-145-47-123-42 in your application.