Light & Wonder (formerly SG Digital) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of online gaming and iLottery solutions. Our team is over 1,500 individuals across the globe, creating fun and exciting play experiences, we create our own award winning games and also partner with premium licensees such as Hasbro, Warner Bros and others to bring franchises like Monopoly, James Bond and The Wizard of Oz to life in online gaming products.

Based in Las Vegas studio, the IT Project Manager will be responsible for the successful delivery of Light and Wonder projects including creating new games, launching content into new markets, and large feature improvements. The Studio PM will be expected to oversee multiple projects operating within a matrix organization, utilizing international resource pools with a wide range of skill sets.

This candidate will be expected to work independently but provide frequent updates to the international Senior Management Team and escalate promptly when risks or issues cannot be managed within Project. They will also be expected to take opportunities to highlight areas to improve project management and development practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Day to day management of assigned projects working to ensure delivery against agreed project requirements
• Understand and actively remove impediments for project teams and project requirements
• Create detailed project plans with project teams, ensuring these are clear, understood and tracked
• Manage risks, issues and dependencies identified on projects. Escalate as appropriate.
• Coordinate, where required, when business processes needed for project success utilize teams external to the project
• Update internal reporting packs focusing on project delivery
• See projects through to completion
• Assist in coordination relating to project specific production incidents and escalations that occur during project timelines
• Identify process improvements and raise these with the respective leads
• Support financial management, including project creation and time tracking

• Previous Project Management experience
• Experience of using tools such as Microsoft Project, Sharepoint, Monday.com, JIRA & Confluence
• Highly adaptable and able to move with change within the projects / business
• Resilient and able to work well under pressure
• Strong organization, collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Strong reporting & presentation skills
• Confident speaker
• Detail-oriented

Nice to haves:

• Project Management certifications such as APM, PMQ, PRINCE2 or Agile
• Servant Leader experience
• Agile experience
• Technical capacity with the ability to ‘translate’ technical language
• iGaming and industry knowledge
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

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