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Principal UX Designer

Epic Games β€’ Cary, United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Onsite Full-time Lead

The Principal UX Designer will shape the product vision and strategy for Fortnite, collaborating closely with leadership and cross-discipline teams. They will drive design execution by delivering screens, prototypes, and specifications while facilitating ideation and concept development.

Responsibilities

  • Shape product vision and strategy in close collaboration with Fortnite leadership
  • Drive design execution by delivering screens, prototypes, and specifications
  • Facilitate ideation and concept development, championing new ideas
  • Collaborate with cross-discipline peers to ensure alignment across product, production, and engineering teams
  • Collaborate with other design leaders to build a shared process, design system, and cross-product pattern libraries

Requirements

  • Skilled storyteller and presenter
  • Comprehensive understanding of building best-in-class end-to-end product experiences
  • Ability to identify the most appropriate tool for a given task
  • Clear and effective feedback to other designers
  • Ownership of the craft and quality of work
  • Track record of building and maintaining relationships with cross-discipline teams, design peers, and upper management
  • Passion for making and playing games, strong sense of player empathy, high level of self-motivation, and commitment to personal growth and development
  • Portfolio of relevant design work

Key Skills

  • Storytelling and presenting
  • Building best-in-class end-to-end product experiences
  • Identifying appropriate tools for tasks
  • Providing clear and effective feedback
  • Ownership of craft and quality
  • Building and maintaining relationships
  • Passion for games and player empathy
  • Self-motivation and personal growth

Benefits

  • 100% of premiums for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, and 401k with competitive match
  • Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment
  • Company-wide paid breaks and events

About Epic Games

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 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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