ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

The Implementation Lead must be an experienced member of the Fortnite team with a history of shipping multiple product seasons in an implementation role. They need extensive knowledge of the Unreal engine, asset pipelines, performance metrics, and best practices to maintain bug-free assets and a positive player experience. Familiarity with common BP parent classes is essential. Additionally, they should handle tasks of junior and mid-level implementers, serve as a point of contact for other disciplines, estimate work scope, communicate plans, mentor team members, conduct regular reviews, and explore automation opportunities. The lead is responsible for ensuring thorough and up-to-date documentation of all implementation processes.

In this role, you will

• Responsible for training/tasking/managing of direct reports (junior and mid-level implementers) and contractors
• Act as point of contact for Environment and Production teams for all implementation needs and questions
• Works with seasonal leads and production to scope out work against team bandwidth and provides seasonal post-mortems to verify estimates and report on staffing needs
• Assist with late-season integrations
• Creates and manages failsafe protocol to mitigate build breakages (internal and vendors)
• Triage and assign bugs to art implementers, conduct final content reviews, and maintain an up-to-date asset library.
• Manage content deprecation, ensure environmental performance standards, maintain BPs, conduct performance audits, and address player-facing environment issues.
• Work cross-discipline and cross-team to constantly improve pipeline and tool support

What we're looking for

• Detail-oriented, QA mindset for content
• Experience as a team lead
• Motivated to improve process and pipeline improvements
• Understanding of how content dependencies work
• Knowledge of various 2D and 3D applications, and how it relates to real-time game art
• Knowledge of UE5 blueprint system
• Comfortable creating and managing plans for assets that go through multiple teams
• A strong understanding of optimizations
• Coding knowledge a plus (C++, python)
• Please include a link to your portfolio

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.