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Outsourcing Manager

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 at Epic

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Outsourcing Manager to partner with the development and content teams on Fortnite ( www.fortnite.com ). In this role, you’ll work closely with the game dev, content and production teams to ensure that high-quality content and development work is being delivered by multiple vendors. Key elements of this role are experience managing relationships and content delivery with external partners, strong understanding of best practices for external development, and ability to communicate effectively across multiple teams with exceptional transparency and planning. The ideal candidate has shipped multiple AAA titles as an Outsourcing Manager or Outsourcing-focused Producer.

Responsibilities:

• Working with Fortnite team leads to understand, determine, and deliver on outsource needs for Fortnite content and development
• Leveraging your knowledge of vendors and pipelines to ensure productive partnerships and clear communication
• Owning the process of finding, evaluating, and selecting outsourced developers for Fortnite
• Working with Fortnite producers to scope, negotiate, and set objectives with external partners
• Managing appropriate contracts, invoice approval, timelines and delivery schedules
• Managing communications and providing performance feedback to external vendors, while helping maintain strong relationships between external and internal teams
• Identifying opportunities to improve workflow as it relates to outsourcing and improving as needed

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience with outsourcing and external content/development management required, preferably for AAA games
• Demonstrated understanding of game development process and how multiple external developers can be integrated into a fast-paced and quality-focused project
• Highly organized, self-driven, goal-oriented, and a great team player able to work with some of the most talented developers in the industry
• Detail-oriented and able to track, prioritize, and conscientiously follow through on multiple competing elements of work, in timely fashion, across groups with varying interests
• Process oriented, with an understanding of project management methodologies
• Clear and concise communication, leadership, and people skills

This is going to be Epic!

About Us

Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 1,800+ 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.

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 for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k.

We offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!

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 here.