What We Do

Our Early Career Team is building the next generation of talent at Epic Games. Part of the Talent Attraction team, we are a diverse and dynamic group that cultivates global emerging talent from high-potential to legendary employees. Join our passion and excitement for creating realistic pathways into interactive 3D, and fostering environments where creativity thrives.

What You'll Do

We're looking for a Sr. PM to take Epic's early career program to the next level. As a PM focused on intern success, you'll be an adviser to both interns and the business, ensuring seamless participation and conversion outcomes year-to-year. Partnering with multiple lines of business, you'll ensure long-term engagement and retention strategies within the early career program, which lead to successful conversion outcomes, including intern goal tracking, performance management and the conversion process, and lead and mentor training and development. You'll also take a lead role in expanding our strategic talent pipeline through a new model of apprenticeships. The program you build will provide Epic experiences through a strong culture of inclusion, mentorship, and early career development to set high potentials up for long-term success. You will foster access innovation by creating realistic pathways for success within the early career program, embodying the mindset of when you succeed, we succeed.

In This Role You Will

• Manage a small PM team devoted to evolving successful outcomes for the early career program
• Oversee early career program processes to ensure quality candidate experience, long-term development and intern/new grad retention
• Lead and develop program foundations for apprenticeship across strategic Epic teams
• Continually adapt and improve processes that promote intern and lead engagement, ensuring folks stay on track
• Build and maintain trust with key stakeholders within the business and the intern cohorts
• Provide guidance to leads and mentors on setting SMART goals that directly tie into successful conversion pathways
• Work with interns to track individual goals and outcomes, and act as partner to the leads/mentors to bridge skills gaps along the way
• Manage situational escalations during the internship, knowing when to intervene or change course
• Own performance management process for the early career program, which includes the intern to full-time conversion cycles
• Ensure business alignment on junior core competencies during conversion, so that talent meets Epic’s bar for success
• Facilitate key trainings for each cohort, including general program preparations and inclusive leadership practices
• Help leads cultivate inclusive teams which enable Epic interns to succeed and thrive

What We're Looking For

• Prior experience working as an HR partner or a PM within academic programs, L&D, or early career initiatives
• Experience with apprenticeships, bridging secondary education to post-secondary opportunities preferred
• Strong leadership capabilities, ideally experience leading a small team (1-2)
• Excellent stakeholder management, experience supporting multiple client groups
• A passion and comfort for cultivating early career talent and helping bridge skills gaps across multiple disciplines
• Proven ability to drive process initiatives, proactively solve problems, and be a force multiplier for the team
• Experience and desire for cultivating inclusive teams, being a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion
• Strong situational judgement and a high degree of emotional intelligence
• Strong written and verbal business communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity, and knowing what to do when there isn’t a clear path forward
• Demonstrated experience facilitating presentations, ideally training content

This position is open in multiple locations across North America including:

Bellevue, WA
San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles, CA
San Diego, CA
Austin / Dallas / Houston, TX
Cary, NC
Boston, MA

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!