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Senior Product Manager

BlankOnsiteFull TimeSenior$202,701–$297,295 /yrPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • Fortnite
  • Battle Pass
  • progression
  • engagement systems
  • social overlay
  • live operations
  • player retention
  • player engagement
  • season health
  • go-to-market strategies

Nice to have

  • games
  • consumer-facing products
  • generalist
  • concurrent initiatives
  • broad feature portfolio
  • passion for games

Role summary

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Product Manager for its Growth Team in New York City. This role focuses on driving product strategy and growth for Fortnite's player-facing systems, including Battle Pass progression, engagement, and social features. The Senior Product Manager will partner with development, publishing, marketing, and platform teams, leveraging data and market insights to identify growth levers. Responsibilities include defining strategy, executing live operations, improving player retention and engagement, and translating company direction into actionable plans. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of product management experience in live operations for consumer-facing products or games, strong analytical and SQL skills, and a passion for 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.

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

What We Do

Product Management partners with game development, publishing, marketing, and platform teams to provide a data and market-driven view of product strategy that aligns with business goals. As part of Epic’s Fortnite Game Publishing team, we use our product expertise to identify and drive growth levers to grow our player base and business.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Product Manager, you will work across multiple feature areas of Fortnite from season-to-season Battle Pass progression and engagement systems to the social overlay experience. This is a uniquely broad role that gives you the opportunity to shape several of Fortnite's most player-facing systems, partnering with cross-functional teams to define strategy, execute live operations, and drive meaningful outcomes across your portfolio.

In this role, you will

  • Drive initiatives across Battle Pass progression, seasonal engagement, and the Fortnite social gameplay systems, contributing to a cohesive player experience across feature areas
  • Partner with development teams to design, implement, and iterate on features that improve player retention, engagement, and long-term season health
  • Leverage insights from the analytics team to define measurable goals, track performance, and share updates with key stakeholders
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to support go-to-market strategies and execution for seasonal launches and major content activations
  • Partner with product leadership to translate company direction into actionable plans across your portfolio of initiatives
  • Drive alignment across teams by clearly documenting and communicating product requirements, ensuring all stakeholders share a unified understanding of goals and execution plans
  • What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of Product Management experience in live operations for consumer-facing products or games
  • Comfort operating as a generalist with proven success managing multiple concurrent initiatives across a broad feature portfolio
  • A passion for games and a deep understanding of player retention, engagement, and progression mechanics
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret large datasets and turn insights into actionable product decisions; SQL proficiency required
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including experience writing product requirement documents and presenting to senior stakeholders
  • New York City Base Pay Range$202,701—$297,295 USDCalifornia Base Pay Range$190,539—$279,457 USDWashington Base Pay Range$190,539—$279,457 USD

    ABOUT US

    Epic Games​ ​is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.

    Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

    Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

    Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

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