Product Manager IV - Gaming

Product Manager IV - Gaming (REMOTE)

Department: Product & Project Management

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Chicago, Illinois - Black Hat Studio

Reporting To: VP of Product Management

Description

What Will You Be Doing?

• Exercises discretion and independent judgment managing products owned through the product life cycle from conception through end-of-life.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting risks, such as delays, roadblocks, and deviations from original plan.
• Customarily and regularly communicates product features and positioning; conducts product training, as needed.
• Exercises discretion and independent judgment defining product vision and strategy, ensuring the product roadmap aligns with Company goals and customer needs.
• Actively influences acceptance and adoption of the product strategy across multiple cross functional departments.
• Responsible for understanding and creating Marketing Requirement’s Documents (MRD’s); integrates usability studies, user research, and market analysis into product requirements, ensuring products satisfy customer needs.
• Responsible for determining implementation strategy of new feature requests and making trade off decisions as they apply to products.
• Coordinates and communicates with stakeholders and multiple cross-functional teams throughout the development process; resolves issues as they emerge and evolve.
• Serves as a key stakeholder in competitive research; presenting products, services, technologies, or processes that may add value, evolve, or advance the Company’s competitive strategy.
• Customarily and regularly reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and client / user needs.
• Exercises discretion and independent judgement designing and developing effective use cases and user surveys, questionnaires, scenarios, and stories.
• Assists management with market demand assessments for new products and concepts.

Skills, Knowledge, & Expertise Needed for the Job:

• 8-12 years’ experience in a product management/marketing role; industry experience preferred.
• Experience with product management lifecycle process and communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience gathering business requirements and developing appropriate technology and business solutions; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
• Excel at transforming concepts and opportunities into actionable plans, demonstrating a capacity to work with minimal guidance.

• Casino gaming experience.
• Gaming software experience.
• Gaming hardware experience.

Why Us?

• Everi’s benefits package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k with company match, life insurance, maternity and paternity leave, adoption assistance, pet insurance, gym reimbursement, and more!
• Discretionary Time Off (DTO) - No more “banking hours” to take a day off and the perfect way to prevent burnout and improve productivity.
• Building on a solid culture and resounding positive feedback from Everi employees in 2021, Everi continued to receive recognition as a Top Workplace in 2022. Everi was recognized nationally as a Top Workplace 2022 USA and received a second regional award for its HQ in Las Vegas as a Nevada Top Workplace 2022. This most recent award brings Everi’s total number of Top Workplaces awards in 2021 and 2022 to a whopping 10 awards!!!!