Product Manager IV - Gaming (REMOTE)
Chicago, Illinois - Black Hat Studio
Department: Product & Project Management
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Chicago, Illinois - Black Hat Studio
Reporting To: VP of Product Management
Description
Everi is looking for talented candidates to join our Product Management Team! We are in search of an ideal candidate with a Gaming background, superb communication abilities, a keen attention to detail, and expertise in effectively addressing customer and company challenges.If you are customer-focused, highly analytical, team-focused, thrive in ambiguous environments, and love sports and entertainment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!
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!!!!
Everi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants and employees will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic or class protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Job Profile
401(k) Adoption Assistance Dental Discretionary Time Off Gym reimbursement Life Insurance Maternity and paternity leave Maternity leave Medical Medical, Dental, Vision Paternity leave Pet Insurance Recognition as a Top Workplace Vision
Tasks- Communicate product features
- Conduct market demand assessments
- Coordinate with stakeholders
- Define product vision
- Identify and document risks
- Manage product life cycle
Analytical Business Requirements Communication Competitive research Data analysis Excel Gaming Hardware Market Analysis Marketing Product Management Project Management Risk Management Software Stakeholder management Strategic planning Training Usability studies Use case design User Research
Experience8-12 years
Education TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9