Digital Product Integration Director

GAME ON – OLG needs you

We’ve said GAME ON, and we mean it – OLG is rapidly transforming its organization to better serve Ontarians by delivering great gaming experiences through our digital, retail lottery, and land-based casino channels. Over the course of fiscal 2020-21 and fiscal 2021-22, OLG delivered nearly $2 billion in net profit to the Province of Ontario. OLG is now expanding our horizons even further, with a new strategic direction, to become a world class gaming entertainment leader with a globally admired digital platform.

We are ready to take this game to the next level and need a passionate Digital Product Integration Director to help drive coordination and optimization for efficacy of OLG digital experiences and integration within Digital and other OLG areas (Retail, Lottery, Land Based Gaming, etc.). The Director takes a cross product/portfolio view to identify, obtain buy-in, and implement ways to enable initiatives, experiences, and partnerships. This role takes a market-driven and customer-centric approach to advise on cross product opportunities, enable cross-divisional strategies involving Digital and other areas, and supporting strategy development for initiatives within the Digital Product Integration portfolio itself.

YOUR ROLE IN THE GAME

Reporting to the VP Digital Product Integration, you will be empowered to:

• Manage and drive the optimal channel mix, product mix, marketing mix across the product categories and funnel
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions, resolve any product/business conflicts to drive decisions and successfully deliver on goals and objectives.
• Be your Authentic Self: environment that values diversity as a source of strength
• Understand organizational health, can articulate an organizational vision, and can effectively diagnose and make recommendations to solve complex issues that may span multiple teams (including decisions around prioritization, top-level goal alignment, and balancing impact with team delivery).
• Partner with product leadership to influence product and business strategy with a view of holistic and cross product customer needs and market opportunities.
• Act as a SME and partner with Digital Strategy Directors to provide critical input into the divisional planning processes; to drive the portfolio view of cross product investments and prioritization.
• Lead the development of Digital Product Integration portfolio strategy and partner with digital product and strategy teams to develop cross-product strategies and to identify opportunities for digital market growth (e.g., cross-divisional initiatives, multi-product marketing, omni-channel experiences, etc.)
• Consistently build strong internal partnerships, influence through others, resolve conflict, build alignment, and work effectively across teams to execute strategy.
• Variable Pay Program: performance-based incentives to share in our success (Permanent OLG Employees Only)
• Learning Galore: 24-7 access to robust online learning programs
• Flexible Work Environment: to help balance both work and life
• Part of a Bigger Picture: socially responsible company that gives back all its profits to the province and people of Ontario
• Facilitate the hand off to lab teams to deliver on cross product opportunities (e.g., influence backlogs, new capability/tool exploration, marketing spend, etc.)
• Liaise and partner with leaders across OLG divisions to develop strategies and identify collaborative initiatives to drive enterprise growth agenda.
• Provides SME knowledge and leads product teams, functional teams and leaders to solution for complex business issues arising from product delivery.
• You Matter: family friendly work practices and hybrid work
• Provide leadership in the identification, selection and effective management of key vendor relationships, aligned to the broader Digital and Enterprise Strategy and the Digital Product Integration Roadmap.
• Public Service Pension Plan: participate in a major defined benefit pension plan sponsored by the Government of Ontario
• Freedom to Innovate: supports new and better ways to be successful