IGT - Product Owner Instants Game Management (15490)

IGT - Product Owner Instants Game Management (15490)

IGT (NYSE : IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital.

Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth.

We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility.

IGT has approximately 10,500 employees.

You can get further details about the nature of this opening, and what is expected from applicants, by reading the below.

Overview

As a Product Owner in the Lottery Product Management team (Instants Game Management), you will be responsible for implementing the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for products in the Lottery Instants game management area.

Your contribution to the product vision and strategy is an essential component in how you will lead the roadmap and customer engagements, providing you with the ability to craft new features and help customers make the most of existing releases.

Reporting to the Product Manager for Instants Game Management you will be involved in working with our clients and engineering teams to own, shape, and drive the products we build.

You will have the autonomy to own and drive the release scoping and customer engagements for your assigned products. You will lead all aspects of the development of these products from start to finish, working to establish business requirements, identify new functionality and improvements, running the grooming of the feature backlog, establishing release scope, as well as developing and prioritizing themes, epics, and stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.

Through collaborative relationships across the enterprise and engaging with our customers (internal and external), you will help IGT and Lotteries use the products in your portfolio to achieve their business goals and deliver the desired business outcomes.

Working directly on customer implementation projects allows you to bring back to the R&D backlog potential new features and functions identified for your products.

We believe small, multi-disciplinary teams are most effective in delivering complex change. As such, we are looking for someone with a collaborative mentality who is happy to be flexible and take on different responsibilities over the lifetime of our products.

A good experience and understanding of agile methodologies will help you succeed.

Responsibilities

With a focus on both Product Development (products to the shelf) and Product Adoption (with our Lottery customers), the Product Owner has a key role in bringing an outside-in perspective to our product roadmaps and vision.

As a product owner, you will :

• Understand and help contribute to the product manager’s vision for the team’s products
• Lead customer engagements to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements, arrange and conduct presentations, product demonstrations, and workshops
• Completely responsible for your team's products, existing or new, in the scrum team, elaborating features into technical requirements, defining, leading, and coordinating the delivery of the team backlog, acceptance testing of products to the shelf
• Lead all aspects of all stages of product creation (including design and development) by liaising closely with product engineering leaders who will handle the day-to-day engineering efforts
• Create customer-specific artifacts (e.g., Business Process Flows, Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Customer Requirements Documents, Configuration Questionnaires)
• Cooperate with other team members, such as Marketing, Legal and Security
• Provide mentorship, and ongoing support for customers to drive product usage

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT field or equivalent work experience, with at least 5 years of experience in a business systems analysis role or as a product owner, leading a complex product or feature within an enterprise
• A solid understanding of product management and agile software development methods applied concepts and tools in modern product management and product design.
• The ability to solve complex challenges and convert them into structured solutions, which are actionable for both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to influence without authority, working with team members who do not report to this role to get things done
• Strong project management, organizational, and leadership skills, including the ability to lead and prioritize multiple competing initiatives with an aggressive multi-project schedule
• Ability to travel internationally (up to 15% of the time)
• Ability to work across multiple time zones internationally
• A sound understanding of the technical aspects of a transaction processing product (such as a lottery transaction engine, a core banking system or a fintech) and its complexities is a strong plus

Keys to Success

• Building collaborative relationships
• Decision making
• Drive results
• Foster innovation
• Personal energy
• Self-leadership

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