Lead Tech UI Designer

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.

About the Role

Epic is looking for a passionate Lead Technical UI Designer to work on Fortnite Festival. In this position, you will lead and manage a team of Technical UI designers (2–6) working on major music experiences at Epic. You will guide your team to build well thought out features and systems using Unreal Engine, UMG, Blueprints, and view models. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ship features to millions of players around the world.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of Tech UI designers working on music experiences; work collaboratively across multiple teams to create consistency
• Set up a culture of mentorship and excellence within the Tech UI design craft
• Collaborate with other UX/UI leads to ensure great communication is happening and stronger cross-team relationships are built
• Establish best practices and procedures for Tech UI Design
• Help build tools and systems that will help clear up UI tech debt, make it easier and faster to ship UI, and level up the UI overall

Requirements

• A service-oriented, compassionate leader
• Experience managing a team of 2–6 people or equivalent training
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills experience presenting to other team members and stakeholders
• Professional engine experience (Custom engine, Unity, UE4, Lumberyard, Snowdrop, etc.), and have game industry 3D-package experience (3D Studio, Maya, etc.)
• Experience in visual or scripting languages such as Lua, Blueprints, etc
• Experience hiring and managing teams
• Ability to identify issues and solve them within extremely complex problem spaces
• Passion for music
• Portfolio/reel/website should be included with your application

Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits for both employees and dependents including:

• 100% coverage for supplemental medical, dental, and vision
• Critical illness coverage
• Telemedicine access
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Long term disability insurance
• Weekly indemnity (short term disability)
• Retirement savings plan with competitive employer match
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Mental well-being program through Modern Health providing free therapy and coaching

About Epic Games

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 various industries.

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.