Job Opening for Paid Media Manager in Epic Games (Seattle, WA)

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.
PUBLISHING / MARKETING AT EPIC
What We Do

We deliver the most innovative gaming experiences possible to players across the world. Whether through community outreach, world-class events, or partnership integrations, the Epic Games Publishing and Marketing teams seek to surprise players with new experiences every time they drop in to play.

What You’ll Do

Epic Games is looking to add an experienced performance marketing leader to its cross-product Paid Media team. We’re looking for a Paid Media Manager who is a builder and problem-solver, ready to tackle new challenges by creating solutions that have never been done before in the User Acquisition industry. The ideal candidate knows the advertising ecosystem deeply enough to not only take full advantage of all its tools and strengths, but to understand and innovate past its fundamental flaws. In this role you will lead media strategy for one or more of Epic’s first party titles, working with marketing, creative, analytics, and product teams to drive growth and improved engagement through paid and organic channels.

In This Role You Will
Paid media strategy and campaign execution across PC, mobile, and console games
Privacy-first measurement and attribution
Working with engineers and analysts to build in house systems for reporting and programmatic optimization
Funnel optimization
Spearheading new ways of problem-solving for growth and retention utilizing quantitative and creative methods
Building in house multi-variate testing for ads
Working with the game and marketing teams to build out marketing plans and campaigns for key initiatives
Ad partner management-including a hands-on approach, working with partners to test new things and push what is possible
What We’re Looking For
Manager-level experience in digital media, preferably within the games industry across PC, mobile, and console verticals with an excess of 4 years of directly relevant experience
Demonstrated ability to communicate performance to a diverse internal audience of executives, creatives, and engineers; with clarity and data accuracy
Full understanding of UA attribution: how it works, attribution logic/models, all types of fraud, and data privacy
Experience running global campaigns, including insights and optimization based on different countries and cultures
Have designed and built an automated solution that made a significant impact on company KPIs
Have pioneered new products and optimization methods with ad partners
Extensive practical experience running self-service and managed UA including: search, social, programmatic, influencer; non-digital a bonus
Demonstrated negotiation skills
Experience designing, running, and reporting creative tests
Experience doing UA worldwide, knowing the channel, creative, and bidding nuances of each major region
Expert in Excel, Tableau; SQL and query skills a bonus
Experience building teams and working independently
You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.
Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k, and profit-sharing.

All Epic employees can enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge in studios – and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical – we think our people are pretty awesome!
ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 3,000+ 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.

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.