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.
COMMUNICATIONSWhat 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
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.
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 here.
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What We Do
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. 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. 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.
