Director, Social Media & Editorial

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

The Epic Communications team advances the company’s narrative and represents Epic products and the company vision to external and internal audiences globally. We create positive relationships and engagement strategies with a wide range of audiences, including media, investors, influencers, and policymakers.

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

We are looking for a Director, Social Media & Editorial to join the communications team to lead strategy, operations, and content development for Epic’s global social media and editorial channels. In this role, you will lead social and editorial efforts across Epic’s first party games, including Fortnite, as well as the Epic Games Store and Unreal Engine. Working with a wide range of internal stakeholders, you’ll help define social and editorial strategies to connect and build a global community of players, developers, and creators.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Lead a global team to develop highly engaging and creative content on owned channels, including TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and our blogs
• Help shape Epic’s brand, voice, and impact in the global gaming and entertainment industries, and be a leader who continually champions players, developers, and creators
• Stay on the cutting edge of social platform changes and best practices to develop social campaigns and content for emerging platforms
• Represent the team within senior leadership meetings to articulate Epic’s social strategies, results, wins, and future needs to meet business objectives
• Address reactive community issues alongside Epic’s community, comms, policy, marketing, product, and development teams
• Empower stakeholders around the world to drive local social and editorial opportunities in support of regional campaigns and growth initiatives
• Coordinate with external partners on social campaign planning and execution; manage relationships with social media platforms and agencies