Communications Intern
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What you'll do
- Contribute to the development of plans and materials for news moments, including: writing messaging for different audiences, helping anticipate potential reactions and prepare for reactive questions, organizing trackers and contacts for media outreach, contributing to social media planning, and reporting on coverage, audience reception, and media feedback
- Help track Epic's day-to-day media coverage, monitor social media sentiment and run analysis, bringing insights to the team
- Help shape the operations of the team including optimizing the way we store and save information, work in Slack, and track projects
What they're looking for
- Interest in gaming, culture, technology, developer platforms
- Desire to learn media relations and social media strategy
- A quick, succinct, and creative writer
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Analytical and data-driven research experience
- Experience supporting projects and organizing materials, timelines, and driving deliverables and outcomes
- Strong problem-solving skills and tenacious appetite to learn
- Academic study or previous experience in communications, PR, social media, journalism, writing
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Full description from employer
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
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.
COMMUNICATIONS
What We Do
The Epic Communications team advances the company’s narrative and represents Epic products and the company vision to external and internal audiences globally. We create positive relationships and engagement strategies with a wide range of audiences, including media, investors, influencers, and policymakers.
COMMUNICATIONS INTERN
What You'll Do
We're looking for a Communications Intern to join the Comms and Community team. Within this team, we keep press, players, developers, and the world informed and build strong reputations for the games, tools, and tech Epic Games makes.
In this role, you will help prepare plans for new product and feature launches for the Fortnite ecosystem, Rocket League, as well as our developer platforms. As part of this, you would have the opportunity to develop messaging, research media, develop social media strategies, and report on results.
You will also play a role in shaping the operations of the team including optimizing the way we store and save information, work in Slack, and track projects.
In this role, you will
- Contribute to the development of plans and materials for news moments, including: writing messaging for different audiences, helping anticipate potential reactions and prepare for reactive questions, organizing trackers and contacts for media outreach, contributing to social media planning, and reporting on coverage, audience reception, and media feedback
- Help track Epic's day-to-day media coverage, monitor social media sentiment and run analysis, bringing insights to the team
What we're looking for
- Interest in gaming, culture, technology, developer platforms
- Desire to learn media relations and social media strategy
- A quick, succinct, and creative writer
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Analytical and data-driven research experience
- Experience supporting projects and organizing materials, timelines, and driving deliverables and outcomes
- Strong problem-solving skills and tenacious appetite to learn
- Academic study or previous experience in communications, PR, social media, journalism, writing
This internship has a flexible start date in 2027. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers. This is going to be Epic!
ABOUT US
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.
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