Technical Project Manager

Gaming:

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.

Position Summary

The Technical Project Manager will play a critical role within the GDK (Game Development Kit) organization, overseeing projects that leverage Light and Wonder’s proprietary GDK. This game engine and SDK are pivotal in creating our globally recognized slot machine games and other casino products. The Technical Project Manager will collaborate closely with GDK Leadership to plan and coordinate GDK releases, ensuring alignment with the needs of various stakeholders including Product Management, Game Development, Platform Teams, and Quality Assurance.

Job Functions:

• Create and maintain long term and short-term plans for GDK releases meeting new Game
  
  
  

Development feature and market needs

• Serve as a point of contact for GDK planning across the company to ensure GDK meets business needs
• Host regular project meetings and communicate with development managers to coordinate
  
  
  

timely GDK tech stack releases to meet the engineering needs of GDK stakeholders

• Stay informed about global game development trends and emerging features by regularly
  
  
  

engaging with game development teams worldwide, ensuring future GDK releases meet

evolving industry standards and requirements

• Manage quality control on GDK releases throughout the development cycle of GDK
• Collaborates with Software Engineers, Artists, Quality Assurance and other supporting
  
  
  

personnel to become familiar with documentation needs.

• Organize and manage documentation across multiple evolving versions of our GDK.
• Gather stakeholder user feedback on documentation to improve usability and prioritize
  
  
  

projects.

• Take part in requirements gathering discussions to help capture necessary documentation.
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Highly organized, detail oriented, and excellent communication and teamwork skills, including willingness and ability to consult with subject matter experts across the organization.
• Knowledgeable in software management tools and processes (defect tracking, source control, etc)
• Familiarity with software best practices
• Ability to take initiative on projects with defined goals and clear instruction on assignments.
• Command of the English language and grammar is essential.
• Experience with Microsoft Office programs, including MS Word, and Excel.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, with an equivalent combination of education and experience that includes some project management.
  
  
  

Required Experience:

• 4+ years experience in a relevant project management role
  
  
  

Preferred Experience:

• Game Development or industry experience
• Experience with content collaboration and task management tools (e.g., Confluence, JIRA)
• Broad Knowledge of project development tools - Experience of Oracle PLM
• Specific source control Knowledge of GitHub/Perforce
• Solid technical skills. Must be able to participate confidently in technical discussions, easily
  
  
  

understand technical issues, and be able to identify technical risks.

• Demonstrable experience of managing stakeholders. Experience of being the technical/project contact point on multiple deliverables.
• Coordination with 3rd party vendors and suppliers
• Familiarity with Unity or other game engines
  
  
  

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

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.