Director, Production

Job Description

PRODUCTION
What We Do
Whether it's driving a vision from start to finish or collaborating with teams to inspire and deliver projects of Epic quality, Epic's production teams take pride in consistently delivering world-class products and experiences.
What You'll Do
As the Director of Art Production, you will be responsible for shaping and driving our cosmetics production strategy across our various products. We look to this role to craft and implement strategy to build up our output capability ahead of launch, with a focus on setting requirements, budgeting, approvals, etc. This role will partner closely with our broader production and art teams to ensure we are defining the problem space effectively, while being proactive about the right processes and structure to operate effectively. This role will also partner closely with our product and partner management teams to support our required deliverables.
In this role, you will
• Develop a framework/pipeline that ensures the on-time, repeatable, and scalable delivery of all art assets across various products. We would look to this leader to propose new processes and practices where appropriate to meet our ambitious goals
• Partner with both executive and functional leadership to determine the right time and people necessary to see deliverables through to completion. This role will lead the creation and maintenance of project plans, schedules, and roadmaps with consideration toward cross-functional dependencies, and how to navigate complicated tradeoff decisions involving art to ensure successful releases
• Partner closely with our art teams, leading capacity planning and overall project management against critical organizational needs; this covers external outsourcing as well. Quantify and manage the necessary staffing tradeoffs between projects and the associated risks to deliveries, and identify creative solutions to ensure cosmetics production stays on schedule
• Communicate project status, risks, and opportunities to executive leadership, including proactive updates of any potential impacts to upcoming releases. Develop a framework to assess cosmetics' success and inform future content decisions
• Share best practices across the art production org, finding ways to better promote efficiency across the organization
• Elevate the team. Be a role model collaborator. Whether through mentorship or building the right organizational structure, this leader will be responsible for partnering with and leading the art teams to produce high-quality work efficiently and on time
What we're looking for
• Previous experience in a production role where you've managed a large area of high-quality art planning, creation, and delivery
• Production leadership experience and the ability to guide teams through ambiguity and change in a fast-paced environment and high-pressure scenarios
• Experience in software development, gaming, or an entertainment organization
• Expert communication and organizational skills, and highly efficient time management
• Understanding of dependency-driven pipelines, scheduling and asset tracking, and project management practices and tools
• Ability to build strong partnerships at every level

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