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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
Essential Job Functions:
Creative Leadership & IP Development
- Define a bold, player-driven innovation roadmap focused exclusively on felt-based table games.
- Identify opportunities to expand L&W's portfolio of proprietary games and side bets through
novel formats and play styles.
- Guide ideation, testing, and refinement of new game concepts in partnership with game designers and math experts.
Studio Management
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team (product managers, designers, game devs) with a mandate to challenge category conventions.
Foster a studio culture centered around creativity, rapid iteration, and deep empathy for both players and dealers.
- Provide mentorship and leadership development within a lean but high-impact team.
Customer Insights & Market Research
- Lead market analysis and direct customer research to ensure new games and side bets are grounded in real-world needs.
- Conduct operator interviews, dealer observations, and player testing to validate early ideas and refine concepts.
- Develop robust player and operator personas to guide innovation and go-to-market strategies.
Commercial & Industry Engagement
- Work closely with field sales and casino operator partners to identify unmet needs and white space opportunities in the felt-based category.
- Serve as the external face of felt table games innovation, demoing new concepts at industry events and customer showcases.
- Refine concepts based on operator feedback and pilot performance, ensuring commercial viability and regulatory compliance.
- Drive adoption through clear value articulation and differentiated player experiences.
Product Development Ownership
- Drive concept development, prototyping, playtesting, field trials, and rollout in partnership with operations and go-to-market teams.
- Collaborate with compliance and legal teams to ensure timely certification and jurisdictional approval of new formats. Define and manage detailed feature specifications and requirements.
Performance Monitoring & Optimization
- Define KPIs to track game performance across metrics such as time-on-table, hold percentage, and player preference.
- Establish continuous feedback loops with external reporting and internal teams to refine products post-launch.
- Maintain and evolve a structured feedback loop to track the performance of launched titles and inform next-gen development.
Financial Management
- Manage product development budgets and forecast revenue contributions from new launches.
- Make financially sound decisions around investment in new formats, derivatives, or feature enhancements.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the key internal and external voice for the felt-based Table Games business.
- Communicate progress and product strategy to executive leadership, sales partners, and casino operators.
- Actively seek feedback from stakeholders and incorporate learnings to drive continual improvement.
Compliance & Risk Management
- Partner with legal and compliance teams to ensure new games meet jurisdictional standards and obtain necessary certifications.
- Identify and mitigate product risks (regulatory, performance, customer perception) early in the development process.
Qualifications:
- 5-10+ years in table games or casino product leadership, ideally with deep experience in felt-based game development.
- Demonstrated success in launching new table games or expanding existing portfolios through innovation.
- Familiarity with game protection, regulatory constraints, and operational realities of casino floor execution.
- Background in product, innovation, or game development preferred.
- Strong business acumen and market knowledge.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Master's degree preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Visionary but grounded, able to imagine the future of felt table games while managing execution with rigor.
- Deep understanding of game dynamics, dealer experience, and casino operations.
- Highly collaborative; able to bring diverse teams together around a shared product mission.
- Strategic, analytical, and player-obsessed. Every decision stems from a clear understanding of customer needs.
- Strong communication skills; comfortable presenting to C-level leaders, customers, and cross- functional teams.
Physical Requirements: Office Environment Work Conditions: May require weekend and evening hours. May require up to 30% travel. The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Qualifications
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.
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Light & Wonder
Aug 20, 2025