Hardware Engineering Technical Program Manager

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.

The Technical Program Manager supports the development and delivery of Gaming Hardware platforms, including Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs), system hardware, and related subsystems. This role contributes to program execution by coordinating activities across cross-functional teams, maintaining program schedules, and ensuring alignment to defined scope, deliverables, and quality expectations.

Essential Job Functions:

• Support execution of hardware programs from concept through production

• Track program schedules, milestones, and deliverables

• Coordinate across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams

• Identify and track dependencies across teams

• Monitor risks and issues and escalate as needed

• Support coordination of hardware ECO/ECR changes

• Maintain program documentation and reporting

Qualifications:

Training and/or Experience

• 3+ years of experience in program management, project coordination, or related technical roles

•  Experience working in hardware development, manufacturing, or similar environments preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Understanding of hardware product lifecycle (design → validation → production)

•  Familiarity with ECO/ECR processes and change management concepts preferred

•  Exposure to gaming or embedded hardware systems preferred

•  Strong organizational and tracking skills

•  Ability to coordinate work across cross-functional teams

•  Effective written and verbal communication skills

•  Ability to identify issues and escalate appropriately

•  Attention to detail and strong follow-through

•  Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

• Microsoft Project / scheduling tools

• Jira & Confluence (preferred)

•  PLM tools (e.g., Oracle Agile) preferred

Behavioral Expectations

• Execute defined processes with growing independence

• Demonstrates ownership of assigned work and deliverables

• Escalates risks, issues, and decisions appropriately

• Builds foundational expertise in Gaming Hardware systems and processes

• Collaborates effectively across teams – Win as a Team

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology Management, or related field. Or equivalent experience.

Work Conditions:

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations

• Possible domestic and international travel

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

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.