Manager of Product Management - Charitable Gaming

Job Summary:

The Manager, Product Management for Charitable Gaming is responsible for the management of the product lifecycle, from ideation to execution, ensuring our products meet market needs and regulatory requirements. Additionally, this role is responsible for defining the market requirements, ensuring investment aligns with commercial goals, and analyzing product performance to maximize portfolio opportunities. The Manager, PDM works closely with design, compliance, marketing, sales and service teams to deliver tailored games to charitable organizations we support, while also overseeing the PDM team in their day-to-day responsibilities and development

Essential Job Functions:

• Define the overall product strategy, research and development requirements, development, creation of technical market product requirements, and content segmentation.

• Follows product from initial development through all stages to product submission and approval.

• Drives product roadmap decisions for adjacent markets - Charitable Gaming, long with product requirement creation (confluence).

• Lead and mentor high-performing team members in their day-to day, while also fostering growth and development and a culture of continuous improvement.

• 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) for the respective derivative markets; this includes leveraging legacy products and commissioning new products.

• 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 for each charitable market.

• Create new product go-to-market plans including product segmentation and product value proposition by market.

• Commercialize products including pre-launch coordination with key stakeholders, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Operations, etc.

• This includes product training, both internally and as a customer support agent.

• Support in product release material across all Charitable markets.

• Manage the post-launch analysis of content based on segment expectations and provide a 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.

Qualifications:

Training and/or Experience

• 10+ years of product management experience, (preferably Gaming industry experience); with 2+ years of experience leading others

• Charitable gaming Product Management experience advantageous

• 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.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong awareness of gaming industry trends

• Experience working within regulated markets

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

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 and international travel - up to 30%

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.