Director, Product Management - Adjacent Markets

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.

Designs, develops and manages activities for a specific product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life. Serves as a central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing as the product(s) move to production and distribution. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modifications, upgrades and maintenance of the product or product line.

The Director Product Management, Adjacent Markets oversees the product management of the L&W EGM portfolio for VLT, COAM, and Skill markets. This role will identify market needs, and requirements, prioritizing product development resources, enabling the sales team, and evaluating and measuring product performance. The Director Product Management, Adjacent Markets will work closely with operators, customers, suppliers, gaming operations, the sales team, and product development. This position is responsible for understanding and defining market problems, business conditions, competitive requirements, and product direction.

• Provides vision, leadership, and direction for North America EGM product line(s) and categories. Including VLT, COAM, and Skill markets.
• Leads product strategy, research and development requirements, creation of technical market content requirements and content segmentation.
• Oversees product from initial development through all stages to product submission.
• Manages process to identify deviations from standard market requirements through the various Stage Gates.
• Responsible for the assigned budget and for producing the most cost-effective product plan to align with the L&W business segment.
• Direct market product lifecycle planning and management including customer and technical requirements, product strategy and communications across each product category. This includes working with other L&W groups to ensure End of Life products are transitioned out of the market in a customer-centric, profitable manner.
• Be a role model and champion of company values.
• All other duties as applicable for the role.

Qualifications:

Training and/or Experience

• 5+ years of Product Management, Casino Operations, or Game Sales
• Nevada Gaming Card

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Proven leadership, excellent organizational and management skills
• Understanding of the market, ability to define unsolved market problems that are urgent and relevant to specific product line(s)
• Understand the competition and manage appropriate responses
• Experience in managing complex, multi-stakeholders’ projects
• Understanding of gaming industry, regulatory compliance, and protocols
• Strong problem solving and goal setting skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, accounting or related field or its equivalent.

Physical Requirements: 

• Office Environment
• Casino Environment
• Travel

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 accommodation 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

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.