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.
The Epic Games Global Public Policy team helps build relationships with policymakers, trade groups, and advocates at the local, national and regional levels. They identify, monitor, analyze, and prioritize policy trends, legislative proposals, and industry issues important to Epic. The Public Policy team resides within Epic’s Communications function and closely partners legal, product and executive teams to develop the company’s policy positions and strategy.
What You'll DoWe’re looking for a Director to identify opportunities and challenges across the global policy landscape. The Director will lead Epic’s work with governments, elected officials and civil society groups to advance laws, regulations, and other policy norms that enable Epic to support creator and developer communities around the world to promote a vibrant and competitive internet ecosystem.
In this role, you will- Develop and support relationships with policymakers and stakeholders on behalf of Epic Games
- Monitor global policy trends and actions in competition/antitrust and innovative technologies and conduct research to share with Epic teams
- Develop and execute public policy strategy, including external narratives and talking points, and briefing strategies with policy stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree in law, policy, or other relevant discipline preferred
- Experience with and understanding of competition and antitrust public policy
- Experience working with governments, think tanks, public interest groups, industry trade groups and/or relevant corporations
- Track record of successful strategy and execution; ability to help develop and implement programs and processes
- Forward thinking approach to global legislative, regulatory and public policy issues
- A thoughtful team player who can collaborate cross-functionally to understand business goals, and identify global legislative and regulatory opportunities and risks
- Exceptional written and oral advocacy skills
- Genuine interest and enthusiasm for Epic and its public policy goals
- Willing to travel
This role is open to multiple locations in North America and Europe (excluding CA, NY, & WA).
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 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.
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What We Do
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. 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.
