Communications Intern

🏢 Epic Games · 📍 Cary,North Carolina,United States

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Epic Games Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Technical mastery in high-performance C++ and absolute passion for Unreal Engine, gaming ecosystems, and player-first experiences.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Using slow, unoptimized high-level abstractions without understanding the underlying hardware cost.
2. Displaying indifference to gaming culture or viewing Unreal Engine strictly as a generic enterprise tool.
3. Lacking foundational computer science rigor in concurrency, rendering loops, or data structures.

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I build high-performance, low-latency systems that let creators and players interact with massive digital worlds seamlessly.

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