Head of Production & Live Ops for Licensed IP

Wwshemi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plan

Dental insurance

Disability and life insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Meals

Mental well-being program

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking a senior Production Lead to drive end-to-end production for licensed IP titles and live services. You will coordinate with licensors, external studios, and internal platform teams to ensure on-time delivery and launch readiness.

You will also oversee budgets, vendor contracts, and capacity planning while building a scalable production organisation across UK/US time zones. A strong emphasis on live operations and AI-enabled improvements is expected.

Qualifications

• Significant experience shipping games or live services.
• Experience managing multiple external partners in parallel (licensors, publishers or studios).
• Experience leading live operations for a platform or live service at scale.
• Demonstrated experience owning multi-million dollar budgets, vendor management and capacity planning.
• Strong people leader who builds effective teams, structures, and delegation.

Responsibilities

• Shipping and launch readiness: own launch readiness per title and chair weekly status across workstreams.
• Partner production management: be the production face to licensors, align on brand guidelines, carry decisions between partners and teams.
• Platform liveops: own the live operating rhythm, release cadence, events, discovery and monetisation health.
• Production team leadership: build and run the production organisation with clear ownership and delegation.
• Budget, vendors and capacity: manage SOWs, budgets, capacity planning, and org design with senior leadership.
• Roadmap and planning: maintain production roadmap across the organisation with aligned priorities.
• AI adoption: lead adoption of AI to improve production processes.

Tools

Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN)

Job description

Epic Games is seeking a senior Production Lead to drive end-to-end production for licensed IP titles and live services. You will coordinate with licensors, external studios, and internal platform teams to ensure on-time delivery and launch readiness.

You will also oversee budgets, vendor contracts, and capacity planning while building a scalable production organisation across UK/US time zones. A strong emphasis on live operations and AI-enabled improvements is expected.