Senior Director, Product Management

Corporate:

Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Position Summary

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 the 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. In addition, the role ensures R&D investment aligns with commercial goals and portfolio management requirements. Manages system lifecycle and commercialization of product portfolio, including launch and collaboration with cross-functional teams and merchandising strategies.  Specific job duties include the following:

• Manage the business model and work in close collaboration with software development teams to optimize product launches to increase brand footprint.
• Manage the R&D budget with the goal of maximizing return on investment, creating product enhancements and delivering the product roadmap.
• Manage market requirements and execute participation roadmap by driving new product launches through the launch lifecycle process.
• Direct overall product lifecycle planning and management processes including pricing, customer and technical requirements, product strategy and communications across each product category.
• Create and manage brand and licensor relationships.
• Create new product go-to-market plans including product segmentation, pricing, timing and launch partners.
• Lead collaborative discussions around product strategy, pricing and feature requirements based on quantitative customer data and qualitative customer I player insights.
• Develop business cases for investments based on benefit to Company and longer-term strategic positioning.
• Gather customer feedback (i.e. advisory panels, surveys, enhancement requests, issues report, etc.)
• Review competitor pricing, performance, and product lines to maintain competitive positioning and differentiating feature sets.
• Plan external content marketing strategy with Marketing Department and Sales Enablement team.
• Constantly assess opportunities, potential issues and/or risks related to system gaming operations and product deployments.
• Lead post launch postmortems and prioritize agreed upon opportunities for improvement based on the team's analysis and review with product teams, service delivery and/or business owners.
• Work with respective internal departments to aid in forecasting, production, and rollout priorities as well as troubleshoot problems impacting product lines and/or orders.
• Build productive collaboration and communication.
• Provide analysis and executive summary on cashless and mobile business verticals.
• Support the business requirement gathering and definition processes of cashless operations for all products.
• Represent cashless solutions with customers, including demonstrations and sales support calls.
• Oversee process of design and movement of the mobile product as it pertains to cashless operations.

Qualifications

Master’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Business Administration or related field.

Must also have functional knowledge of the following:

• End to end portfolio governance
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) based environments
• Product Management Teams
• JIRA/Confluence, Tableau, Power BI
• Casino Gaming domains

Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience.

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