Beschreibung
What You'll Do
- Own the end-to-end strategy for delivering in-game cosmetic content across our portfolio of titles, directly impacting Epic's financial performance.
- Maintain and continuously improve the existing cosmetics production pipeline and art production suite of tools, ensuring reliable, on-time delivery of art assets.
- Proactively identify opportunities to boost efficiency, close process gaps, and evolve practices to meet the demands of both launch and live-service commitments.
- Own cross-functional project planning, including schedules, roadmaps, and milestone tracking, with clear visibility into dependencies.
- Lead tradeoff discussions with executive and functional leadership when scope, timeline, or resources are in conflict.
- Lead capacity planning for the art organization, including internal teams and external outsource partners.
- Partner with the Sr. Director, Art on all executive-facing communication, including project status, risks, budget, and delivery forecasts.
- Establish a framework for evaluating cosmetics performance post-launch to inform future content strategy and resourcing decisions.
- Champion operational excellence across the art production org, identifying and sharing best practices, tooling improvements, and process efficiencies.
- Actively mentor art producers and lead the art production team, serving as their primary advocate at Epic.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of production experience, including significant time in a leadership role managing large-scale art content pipelines in games, film, or entertainment.
- Proven ability to lead production teams through ambiguity, competing priorities, and high-pressure release cycles.
- Deep familiarity with dependency-driven production pipelines, asset tracking systems, and project management tools (e.g., Flow/Shotgrid, Jira or equivalent).
- Comfortable with emerging technologies and new workflows.
- Strong executive communication skills, comfortable presenting risks and tradeoffs to senior leadership and driving alignment across functions.
- Comfortable with budgets and cost projections.
- Experience managing external outsource relationships and vendor workflows.
- Track record of building collaborative partnerships across art, vendor management, programming, product, and business stakeholders.
- Highly detail-oriented with strong organizational discipline; able to manage complex, multi-threaded workstreams.
- Strategic thinker who can connect production decisions to business outcomes, balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term scalability and revenue impact.
- Flexible skillset with the ability to operate in different production environments.