Technical Product Owner
Position Summary
Technical Product Managers manage the product life cycle of SciPlay's core game systems and features. Responsible for prioritizing new features and functionality of the product to maximize performance for our players. Other duties include scheduling and leading meetings to identify product requirements, writing user stories and managing the team's product backlog, and collaborating with various stakeholders to align the development team's goals with the initiatives of the company.
Essential Job Functions
- Own features and technical improvements from spec/design creation through development.
- Highly focused on features that improve technical stability, drive game performance, create new configuration tools, or support platform or other feature/system requirements.
- Estimate the revenue impact of new features, promotions or game optimizations.
- Work with Executive Producer and Engineering leads to create accurate ROI estimates based on revenue impacts and development cost.
- Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
- Assist with designing and maintaining a high-quality backlog of "ready to implement" features for Roadmapping and Sprint planning with easily understandable specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Work with art, engineering, and production to ensure planned feature specs are 100% approved, cost-evaluated, and ready for implementation at the start of each sprint. This includes final UX design flows from Art.
- Ensure work done during the sprint meets acceptance criteria.
- Work with Analytics to plan comprehensive testing strategies for features that will be tested in-game.
- Attend daily stand-ups and weekly meetings with the development team, other Product Managers, and Analysts
- Act as day-to-day primary point of contact for any product related questions from the game team.
- Review daily KPIs and proactively identify opportunities, trends, and threats to the product.
- Evaluate notable competitors and share key insights / learnings to test.
- Document our processes and best practices.
- Constantly seek improvement opportunities in our day-to-day workflows
- Create presentations of notable successful cross-genre mechanics for sharing with broader PM org and executive leadership team.
- Evaluate test results of implemented features and make recommendations for future iterations.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent experience
- Must be passionate about the product and have a strong desire to move the genre forward.
- Motivated to win market share while building a high-quality product.
- 3+ years relevant experience
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in gaming, social, online casino, or consumer mobile live service products.
- PLUS: Previous experience engineering and architecting complex systems
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- SQL and Data-mining experience a plus
- Excel/Google Sheet Skills and Proficient in PowerPoint/Google Slides
- Strong understanding of statistical significance in datasets.
- Understanding of forecasting and statistical modeling
- Agile/Scrum software development experience is a plus.
- Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
- Ability to develop positive relationships and communicate effectively with Developers, QA, Analysts and Producers.
- Excellent Organizational skills
- Strong starter who can quickly get up to speed on new markets and products.
- Strong affinity for understanding target audience needs and spender priorities.
Qualifications
We are SciPlay! We make games!
At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally, and we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take pride in our ability to stay ahead of the game! We are the brainiacs behind-the-scenes; innovating, dreaming, and navigating the social gaming world. Together, if we stay passionate and ambitious with our goals, no one can stop us from becoming the #1 social and casual gaming company.
A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:
- Competitive salaries
- Annual bonuses, matching 401k
- Hybrid work model (3 days in office)
- Fun environment: Open Office Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks. Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.
- Food! Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches 2x/week
- Summer Hours
- Paid Family Leave
- Paid Volunteer Time
- Annual 2-night company retreat
Read More About Our Values Here:
https://www.sciplay.com/life-at-sciplay
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Both professionally and personally, we believe our differences are key to unlocking our superpowers. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have! #beYOU
SciPlay is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Light & Wonder, Inc. At Light & Wonder, it's all about the games! Learn more at www.lnw.com .
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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 .
