Director, Marketing - EMEA

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London, Greater London, England
In-Office
Senior level
Gaming • Metaverse
The Role
The Marketing Director will lead the EMEA marketing organization, drive go-to-market strategies, manage regional investments, oversee team performance, and foster relationships with key partners.
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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.

MARKETINGWhat We Do

We deliver the most innovative gaming experiences possible to players around the world. Whether through community outreach, world-class events, or partnership integrations, the Epic Games Publishing and Marketing teams seek to surprise players with new experiences every time they drop in to play.

What You'll Do

We’re looking for a Marketing Director to lead go-to-market planning and business operations within EMEA Publishing. You will work closely with internal teams to design and implement plans that drive local engagement and market growth for Epic's first-party game experiences. You will coordinate the essential business functions necessary to manage team workflow and communications, ensuring regional publishing goals and objectives are achieved.

In this role, you will
  • Lead the full EMEA marketing organisation, setting regional priorities, defining strategy, and ensuring world-class execution across all markets. Drive go-to-market and publishing excellence for Epic’s portfolio across EMEA, balancing regional strategy with hands-on leadership in key markets.
  • Partner closely with global publishing, communications, growth, and partnerships teams to shape and influence global marketing frameworks and product positioning.
  • Oversee a distributed team of senior managers and directors, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability across diverse markets.
  • Own regional marketing investment strategy and performance, ensuring data-driven decision-making and measurable impact on player growth and engagement. Champion alignment between functional teams — from publishing to community to creative — to deliver unified, high-impact campaigns across the region.
  • Represent Epic externally across EMEA, building and maintaining relationships with key partners, platforms, and industry organisations. Act as a cultural and strategic bridge between global and local teams, ensuring regional insights inform global planning and local activations reflect Epic’s global vision.
  • Build scalable systems, workflows, and ways of working that enable agility, consistency, and excellence across a complex regional marketing organisation.
  • Inspire, coach, and develop top-tier marketing talent, fostering a high-performing team aligned with Epic’s values and creative ambitions.
What we're looking for
  • 10+ years of experience in roles of increasing scope and complexity in dynamic, fast-paced consumer industries, preferably media, games, and/or entertainment.
  • Exceptional interpersonal communication and collaboration skills within a setting of culturally diverse teams, a high level of integrity, and approachability
  • Experience working directly with consumers and engaging large interactive communities at scale via live service operations is a plus
  • Experience working in companies and teams with complex business models, rapidly shifting priorities, and where change is the norm and new business models are emerging
  • A reputation for successfully driving business results in entrepreneurial environments with a high degree of ambiguity and partnering across the enterprise
  • Strong, open-minded, team player whose values are in alignment with Epic's progressive and boundary-pushing culture
  • Strong experience working in the EMEA region
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

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.

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.

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The Company
HQ: Cary, NC
5,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1991

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.

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