Key responsibilities include:

• Leading day-to-day engagement with external partners to understand their overall goals and ensure all campaign elements reflect both partner objectives and Epic's brand and legal standards

• Acting as Epic's external face within the sports industry, developing strong relationships with leagues, talent agencies, athletes, and brand partners, and representing Epic at major industry events and summits

• Partnering closely with Product and Consumer teams to ensure partnership initiatives align with Epic's broader player, product, and business objectives – having a seat at the table, influencing product strategy into actionable roadmaps and measurable outcomes for commercial outcomes

• Collaborating with development and creative teams to identify, pitch, and translate sports partnership ideas into compelling gameplay offerings across titles like Fortnite and Rocket League

• Directing, sourcing, and negotiating new sports partnerships while managing inbound and outbound licensing opportunities across sports and entertainment

• Managing end-to-end execution of partnership campaigns, serving as the key liaison and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery, asset management, go-to-market support, and streamlined partner communication

• Collaborating with Epic teams to identify, pitch, and onboard high-profile partnerships for Fortnite, from proposal and presentation through execution and launch

The ideal candidate will have 8-10+ years of experience in sports partnerships and talent deal-making, with a track record of closing and executing high-profile deals. They will have a deep understanding of the sports and talent landscape, including leagues, teams, talent, and agencies, as well as robust knowledge of digital consumer products and gaming culture.

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Key responsibilities include:

• Leading day-to-day engagement with external partners to understand their overall goals and ensure all campaign elements reflect both partner objectives and Epic's brand and legal standards

• Acting as Epic's external face within the sports industry, developing strong relationships with leagues, talent agencies, athletes, and brand partners, and representing Epic at major industry events and summits

• Partnering closely with Product and Consumer teams to ensure partnership initiatives align with Epic's broader player, product, and business objectives

• Collaborating with development and creative teams to identify, pitch, and translate sports partnership ideas into compelling gameplay offerings across titles like Fortnite and Rocket League

• Directing, sourcing, and negotiating new sports partnerships while managing inbound and outbound licensing opportunities across sports and entertainment

• Managing end-to-end execution of partnership campaigns, serving as the key liaison and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery, asset management, go-to-market support, and streamlined partner communication

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Requirements include:

• 8–10+ years of experience in sports partnerships and talent deal-making, with a track record of closing and executing high-profile deals

• Deep understanding of the sports and talent landscape , leagues, teams, talent, and agencies , with robust understanding of digital consumer products and gaming culture

• Existing sports, music, talent industry eminence and relationships, with sharp POV on how to creatively position and storytell with these audiences

• Proven experience in taking product ideas to vision/pitch, requiring strategy background combined with business development, business affairs, and partnership execution

• Excellent organizational and communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to multitask across projects while managing shifting priorities calmly and discreetly with senior cross-functional teams

• Use of good judgment, delegation, critical thinking, problem-solving skills and collaboration, especially in stressful situations, and with the ability to remain calm under pressure

• Entrepreneurial self-starter who represents Epic with credibility and momentum across partners and categories

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This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA, NYC, & WA).

Pay Transparency Information: The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience.

New York City Base Pay Range: $211,043,$309,530 USD

California Base Pay Range: $193,456,$283,735 USD

Washington Base Pay Range: $175,869,$257,941 USD

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If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience, and improve people's lives: this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

To meet the growing needs of the Customer analytics business, the team is looking for a self-motivated, technically proficient individual to craft and shepherd coherent solutions. This will require collaboration with a range of stakeholders to clarify requirements, establish pragmatic approaches, and support and articulate decisions over time. You will join a cloud architecture team that works closely with engineering teams and other architects across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Technical Requirements

• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Run, CloudSQL, Spanner and Apigee.

• Security & Networking: Strong understanding of cloud security protocols, IAM, encryption, and complex network topologies.

• Data Management: Proficiency in Enterprise Data Platforms, Data mesh architecture and data-driven architectural patterns.

• DevOps Tooling: Hands-on experience with GitHub, SonarQube, Checkmarx, and FOSSA.

• Software Engineering: Strong background in building Web Services and maintaining Clean Code standards.

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• System Design: Work with engineering teams to refine system designs, evangelising for horizontal scalability, resilience, and Clean Code compliance.

• Product Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers to decompose complex business needs into incremental, production-ready user stories within an Agile/Sprint methodology.

• Architectural Governance: Assess and document the rationale and tradeoffs for technical decisions; contribute to the broader Cloud Architecture team to improve global practices.

• DevOps Excellence: Utilise and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and automated testing/security tools to maximise deployment efficiency and minimise risk.

Cloud, Networking & Security

• Secure Infrastructure: Serve as the primary architect for cloud solutions, ensuring 'Secure-by-Design' principles are applied across Google Cloud services (Dataflow, Dataproc, CloudRun, CloudSQL, Spanner).

• Advanced Networking: Design and optimise cloud networking configurations, including VPCs, Service Controls, Load Balancing, and Private Service Connect to ensure high availability and low latency.

• Cyber Security Oversight: Integrate security scanning and compliance into the architecture (utilising Checkmarx, SonarQube, and FOSSA). Proactively address vulnerabilities in distributed systems and AI models (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLMs).

• API & Data Contracts: Bolster 'Data as a Product' practices by enforcing strict API standards and data contracts to ensure seamless, secure interoperability between services.

• FinOps & Cost Optimisation: Drive fiscal responsibility by right-sizing GCP resources and optimising Generative AI architectures (token management/model selection) to maximise ROI.

• SRE & Performance Tuning: Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure high availability, minimise system latency, and lead root-cause analysis for complex, distributed system failures.

• DevSecOps & Problem Solving: Integrate security automation into CI/CD pipelines to ensure 'Secure-by-Design' deployments while solving complex architectural trade-offs between speed, scale, and risk.

• Continuous Learning: Stay at the forefront of AI research, specifically regarding autonomous agents, prompt engineering etc

Nice to Have

• AI development tools and frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, or Agent Dev Kit) to accelerate the delivery of intelligent applications.

• Agentic & GenAI Design: Lead the architectural design of Agentic AI systems (multi-agent orchestration) and Generative AI solutions, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns and LLM integration.

• Kubernetes (GKE): Experience managing containerised workloads at scale.

• Kafka/Event-Driven Design: Experience with high-throughput messaging and event-driven architectures.

• MLOps: Familiarity with the end-to-end lifecycle of machine learning models in production.

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field

• 5+ years of Software engineering experience using Java or Python developing services (APIs, REST, etc.)

• 2+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud service provider (AWS, Azure, etc.) and associated cloud components.

• Experience designing/architecting and running distributed systems in a production environment

• STRONG communications skills and cognitive agility - ability to engage in deep technical discussions with customers and peers, become a trusted technical advisor, and maintain good documentation

Even better, you may have...

• Master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering or a closely related field of study

• Familiarity with a breadth of programming languages, platforms, and systems

• Experience with asynchronous messaging and eventually consistent system design

• An agile, pragmatic, and empirical mindset

• Critical thinking, decision-making and leadership aptitudes

• Good organisational and problem-solving abilities

• MDM, Entity Resolution, Customer Analytics and Marketing Analytics experience is a huge plus.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidised back-up child care and more

• Vehicle discount programme for employees and family members, and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary

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