Hardware Engineering Technical Program Manager

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

The Technical Program Manager supports the development and delivery of Gaming Hardware platforms, including Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs), system hardware, and related subsystems. This role contributes to program execution by coordinating activities across cross-functional teams, maintaining program schedules, and ensuring alignment to defined scope, deliverables, and quality expectations.

Essential Job Functions:

Support execution of hardware programs from concept through production

Track program schedules, milestones, and deliverables

Coordinate across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams

Identify and track dependencies across teams

Monitor risks and issues and escalate as needed

Support coordination of hardware ECO/ECR changes

Maintain program documentation and reporting

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Training and/or Experience

3+ years of experience in program management, project coordination, or related technical roles

Experience working in hardware development, manufacturing, or similar environments preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Understanding of hardware product lifecycle (design validation production)

Familiarity with ECO/ECR processes and change management concepts preferred

Exposure to gaming or embedded hardware systems preferred

Strong organizational and tracking skills

Ability to coordinate work across cross-functional teams

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Ability to identify issues and escalate appropriately

Attention to detail and strong follow-through

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Microsoft Project / scheduling tools

Jira & Confluence (preferred)

PLM tools (e.g., Oracle Agile) preferred

Behavioral Expectations

Execute defined processes with growing independence

Demonstrates ownership of assigned work and deliverables

Escalates risks, issues, and decisions appropriately

Builds foundational expertise in Gaming Hardware systems and processes

Collaborates effectively across teams – Win as a Team

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology Management, or related field. Or equivalent experience.

Work Conditions:

The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations

Possible domestic and international travel

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment