Director, Production (Licensed IP and Partner Titles – Fortnite Ecosystem)

Overview

In this role, you will act as the production spine for Epic’s licensed IP slate, steering end-to-end delivery across partners, licensors, and internal teams. You’ll align live operations, budgets, and vendor contracts with the roadmap to scale a growing slate of creator-enabled experiences on Unreal Editor for Fortnite. You’ll lead a production organization across time zones, shaping processes and standards that enable high-quality, timely launches. This is a chance to impact how Epic delivers world-class licensed content and live services at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• pension
• private medical insurance
• health care cash plan
• dental insurance
• disability and life insurance
• cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Own launch readiness for each title and supervise cross-functional status meetings across all workstreams
• Manage partner production with licensors and external studios, translating brand guidelines into deliverables
• Oversee platform liveops including release cadence, events, monetisation health, and discovery feedback loops
• Build and run the production organization with clear ownership, delegation, and scalable ceremonies
• Own SOWs, budgets, capacity planning, and org design in collaboration with discipline directors
• Maintain the production view of the roadmap, ensuring priorities and resources are aligned across teams
• Lead AI adoption and process changes to improve production practices as technology evolves

Key requirements

• Significant experience shipping games or live services from an internal development organization
• Experience managing multiple external partners in parallel (licensors, publishers or studios) including publishing production
• Leading live operations for a platform or live service at scale
• Proven ability to own multi-million dollar budgets, vendor management, and capacity planning with executive-level communication
• Experience establishing production methodologies and standards that drive organization-wide adoption
• Strong people leadership with ability to scale a production organization and maintain team health
• Calm, low-ego and empathetic leadership with strong communication and judgment
• Strong strategic judgment to balance priorities and make thoughtful trade-offs
• Passion for user-generated content and creator communities (advantage)
• Willingness to collaborate across UK and US time zones

• Empathy
• Delegation and empowerment
• Cross-team collaboration
• Live operations management at scale
• Budgeting and vendor management
• Production methodologies and standards

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