Job Description
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.
Art at Epic
What we do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class UI, technical, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What you’ll do
Epic is looking for passionate Lead Visual Designers. In this position you will lead and manage a team of visual designers working on major initiatives of Fortnite (E.g., Gameplay UI, the Battlepass, or Social Systems). You will guide your team to produce well thought out features and systems by generating high fidelity mockups, prototypes, design systems, and style guides. You will then work with a multi-disciplinary team to ship these features to millions of players around the world.
In this role, you will
Inspire, mentor, and manage a Visual Design team (between 2-4).
Roll up your sleeves from time to time and create game menus, HUD elements, in-world graphic design, logos, iconography systems, and motion graphics.
Contribute to the new vision for Fortnite’s UI that we’re working towards.
Work closely with UX, game design, code, audio, and animation to create beautiful looking UI and graphic design elements Present and pitch designs to Product Managers, Developers, and Stakeholders.
Work quickly and effectively in a fast paced environment.
Collaborate with other UX/UI Craft leads to ensure great communication is happening and stronger cross team relationships are built
Inspire, mentor, and manage a Visual Design team (between 2-4).
Roll up your sleeves from time to time and create game menus, HUD elements, in-world graphic design, logos, iconography systems, and motion graphics.
Contribute to the new vision for Fortnite’s UI that we’re working towards.
Work closely with UX, game design, code, audio, and animation to create beautiful looking UI and graphic design elements Present and pitch designs to Product Managers, Developers, and Stakeholders.
Work quickly and effectively in a fast paced environment.
Collaborate with other UX/UI Craft leads to ensure great communication is happening and stronger cross team relationships are built
Skills & Requirements
What we’re looking for
You have 2-4 years of experience managing a team of 1-4 people or equivalent training.
7+ years of experience designing in game UI and/or other visual displays for games, movies, or websites, etc.
You have 7+ years of experience working in Agile environments and on multi-disciplinary teams.
You are skilled with Figma, the Adobe Suite, and prototyping software.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and at least 5+ years of experience presenting to other team members and stakeholders.
You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
You have 2-4 years of experience managing a team of 1-4 people or equivalent training.
7+ years of experience designing in game UI and/or other visual displays for games, movies, or websites, etc.
You have 7+ years of experience working in Agile environments and on multi-disciplinary teams.
You are skilled with Figma, the Adobe Suite, and prototyping software.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and at least 5+ years of experience presenting to other team members and stakeholders.
You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
Nice to have skills
Experience with Unreal Engine and designing and/or building 3D graphics.
You have worked on AAA game titles.
Unreal Motion Graphics UI Designer experience.
Experience with building materials in Unreal Engine.
Experience with Unreal Engine and designing and/or building 3D graphics.
You have worked on AAA game titles.
Unreal Motion Graphics UI Designer experience.
Experience with building materials in Unreal Engine.
How to Apply
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic:
https://epicgames.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Epic_Games/job/Cary-NC/Principal-Visual-Designer_R4161-2
Remote work environment.
About the Company
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.
Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
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