Product Manager – EGM

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

The Product Manager is responsible for the management of the product lifecycle, from ideation to execution, ensuring our products meet our strategic vision, market needs and regulatory requirements. Additionally, the role is responsible for defining the market requirements, ensuring investment aligns with commercial goals, and analyzing product performance to maximize portfolio opportunities. As a member of the product management team, the PM will work closely with our design, compliance, marketing, sales and service teams to deliver tailored games for the markets we support.

Essential Job Functions:

• Define the overall product strategy, research and development requirements, development, the creation of technical market content requirements, and content segmentation.
• Deliver comprehensive product demonstrations, showcasing deep knowledge of the game, both in person and virtually.
• Follows product from initial development through all development stages to product submission and approval.
• Drives product roadmap decisions.
• Gather and prioritize product requirements based on customer insights, competitive analysis, and game segmentation.
• Communicate product requirements to R&D.
• Create & maintain the product strategy (Playbook).
• Verify the regulatory requirements in conjunction with The Compliance Department.
• Develop and implement processes to identify deviations from standard market requirements through the various development stage gates.
• Collaborate in financial and technical analysis for product selection and definition.
• Define clear product visions and KPIs.
• Create new product go-to-market plans including product segmentation, and product value proposition by market.
• Commercialize products, including pre-launch coordination with Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, etc.; this includes product training, both internally and as a customer support agent.
• Support in product release material across all markets.
• Manage the post-launch analysis of content based on segment expectations and provide debrief to R&D.
• Research competitor performance, technology, functionality, and product lines.
• Support the product management team, senior management, cross-department peers, Sales, and customer support on product information via presentations, product briefs, and other demonstrations.

This role is hybrid, with 3 days a week on-site reporting to our office based in Las Vegas, NV.

Qualifications

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of product management experience (preferably Gaming industry experience).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience working within regulated markets.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making.

• Ability to coordinate efforts across cross-functional teams.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions:

The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.•Possible domestic travel.•Ability to attends events/trade shows during evening hours or over the weekend.

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.

In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

L&W is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: EEOC Poster.

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.