Manager Games and Products

Konami Gaming is looking for a Manager Games and Products to join our team!

This position is responsible for global product planning and content strategy for the Games Division, specifically for Class 3 gaming. This includes managing products throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision and roadmap, and product launch strategies, and working closely with R&D to deliver high quality and innovative products. This position also requires the flexibility to act autonomously at all times while adhering to overall department and company policies and procedures.

What you'll be doing:

• Review product strategies and roadmaps for Class 3 gaming. Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product.
• Researches, analyzes, and communicates game product requirements pertaining to gaming devices and industry regulators. This includes communications to R&D groups related to market demands, market issues, and localization or product requirements.
• Review market requirement documents and product requirement documents with the Director of Product Management with prioritized features and corresponding justification.
• Manages and coordinates products with R&D, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service for completion of all critical items for product release, localization requirements, and communicates those requirements to engineering on a timely basis.
• Conducts requirements analysis and specification. Serves as the product expert by analyzing customer requirements and performing technical analysis, competitive, and ROI analysis.
• Compiles sales manuals contain information on machine specifications, configurations, and other information to assist Sales staff to be more efficient in the field.
• Proactively interfaces with Sales personnel and customers on market, product, and localization requirements, and communicates those requirements to Engineering on timely basis.
• Ensures that regulatory requirements are considered in the continual design of the product.
• Works productively with the Director of Product Management to ensure product objectives are achieved and customer expectations are met — this includes coordination with Sales, R&D, Customer Service, and Compliance.
• Works with Marketing to produce press announcements pertaining to new product launches and develops sales tools and marketing collateral.
• Responsible for tracking all competitors’ products in order to provide the company with up-to-date understanding of broad market conditions and detailed product features, functions, and benefits for competitors’ products.
• Provides input to Marketing on the games portion of the website for external and internal reference. 
• Participates in trade show sales support, including in depth demonstrations and communicating detailed product knowledge.
• Ensures that trade show games and software are built and delivered and verified based off specifications of product management and delivery.
• Able to demo games and releases to large prospective customers or gaming enterprise organizations.
• Conducts training of newly released products at quarterly sales meetings or when required.

Konami Offers

• Competitive Wages
• Great 401(k) plan with company match
• Comprehensive health benefits package
• Generous Company paid Holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition reimbursement program

About Konami Gaming, Inc.:

For Players. For Operators. For Each Other.

Konami Gaming, Inc. entered the US gaming market in the 2000s and we have spent the last two decades moving the industry forward with br