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Online Product Director, Social

Epic Games

Cary, NC 09-06-2024
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

What We Do

Product Management partners with game development, publishing, marketing, and platform teams to provide a data and market-driven view of product strategy that aligns with business goals. As part of Epic's Growth Team, we use our product expertise to identify and drive growth levers to grow our player base and business.

What You'll Do

As a Product Management Director, you will collaborate with cross-functional team members to drive engagement and monetization initiatives across our suite of products and businesses. You will use both creative and analytical skills to identify opportunities, define product strategy, support roadmap development, execute live operations and contribute to strategic planning.

In this role, you will
• Define and drive efforts to expand Online's developer offerings around user social experiences on 1P and 3P titles
• Develop a multi-year roadmap and strategy to extend Epic's product offerings in Epic Account Services (EAS), Epic Online Services (EOS), and Epic Games Store (EGS) across mobile, PC, and console, in support of both developers and gamers
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders, including users/developers, technical teams, and management, to gather requirements, and explain technical designs/features
• Define measurable feature and initiative goals as well as create detailed business and product requirements that are used to guide design and technical specifications
• Collaborate with team members to assess technical viability, test new technology and explore design options
• Collaborate with marketing, legal, and other partners on go-to-market strategies and execution for major product releases

What we're looking for
• 8+ years of Product Management experience across both Console/PC and Mobile gaming
• Strong understanding of the major gaming platforms and the differences in player expectations on each of those platforms
• Experience simplifying ambiguous problem spaces to drive alignment with stakeholders
• A passion for games and a deep understanding of growth, retention, and monetization principles and mechanics as it relates to 3rd party developers
• A desire to enable developers to ship the best titles without barriers, enabling shared experiences across all platforms
• Experience architecting and leading innovative, complex game platform/development products
• Experience collaborating with a variety of strategic stakeholders to bring a product vision to life
• Deep knowledge of both developer and user behavioral trends and priorities
• Experience with cloud technologies, including AWS service offerings and reseller models of cloud services
• Experience in collaborating with design teams to design, document and build design systems for scalable and consistent user interfaces

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-gp60x4-3-138-178-162-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Epic Games

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 also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.