Counsel, Strategic Partnerships Transactions (Fortnite Ecosystem)

at  Epic Games

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.

WHAT WE DO

Epic’s multi-specialized team of attorneys and legal professionals, partner across our organization to provide legal solutions, as well as, consult and inform on the products we build and games we develop.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

In this role, you will support the counsel group responsible for strategic agreements related to the Fortnite Ecosystem, including partnership licenses, content licenses, collaboration agreements, co-marketing agreements, platform partner agreements.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Work with Epic’s Partnerships team to help track and negotiate agreements from term sheet to execution.
• Work directly with lead counsel for Strategic Partnerships to support the workstream.
• Assist in template drafting and maintenance for all agreements.
• Track distinct contract compliance obligations from deal to deal as needed and advise internal stakeholders of such obligations.
• Work with in-house and outside counsel to revise agreements
• Support platform partnership agreements, including console and mobile, as well as In-bound content licenses and collaboration agreements
• Support other counsel in the licensing and IP management group; Work with IP partners to resolve issues re: in-game assets