General Manager

SCIENTIFIC GAMES; Minnesota; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Games is seeking a General Manager to lead the operation and delivery of a client’s core lottery system and its supporting environment. You will oversee service delivery, project execution, and workforce leadership to ensure reliability, security, and on-time performance.

You will partner with the account leadership to translate initiatives into site plans, manage budgets, and deliver measurable results while maintaining regulatory and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, engineering, operations, or related field.
• Ten to fifteen years of related professional experience in operational leadership.
• Ten+ years in managing operations, service delivery, or mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated people leadership, performance management, and workforce planning.
• Experience managing complex technology operations, projects, releases, and incidents.
• Strong budget management, forecasting, and operational reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operation and delivery of the core lottery system and its technical environment.
• Ensure systems, software, infrastructure, services, projects, and personnel meet requirements.
• Maintain system availability, incident response, and change execution.
• Direct implementation of site projects, releases, maintenance, and initiatives.
• Develop operational plans, schedules, resources, risks, and milestones.
• Own operational issues from escalation to resolution and communicate with stakeholders.
• Ensure service-level agreements and contractual commitments are met.
• Provide updates to stakeholders on performance, incidents, and action plans.
• Lead site personnel through workforce planning, coaching, and development.
• Establish clear team priorities and accountability for results.
• Coordinate internal departments, vendors, and external stakeholders for execution.
• Maintain regulatory compliance and audit readiness.
• Manage site operating budget, forecasts, and expenditures.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reliability.

Skills

Operational leadership

Budget management

Project delivery

Stakeholder communication

Incident resolution

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/technology/engineering/operations

Job description

Scientific Games

Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and the partner of choice for government lotteries. From cutting-edge backend systems to exciting entertainment experiences and trailblazing retail and digital solutions, we elevate play every day. We push game designs to the next level and are pioneers in data analytics and iLottery. Built on a foundation of trusted partnerships, Scientific Games combines relentless innovation, legendary performance, and unwavering security to responsibly propel the global lottery industry ever forward.

Position Summary

The General Manager is an execution-focused operational leadership responsible for the performance of a client’s core lottery system, supporting technology environment, and site team. The position ensures that operations, technical services, projects, releases, and customer commitments are delivered safely, reliably, on schedule, and in accordance with established standards. The General Manager is accountable for site execution, including service delivery, operational performance, issue resolution, project implementation, workforce leadership, financial management, contractual compliance, and regulatory and audit readiness. The General Manager partners with the Account Managing Director to support account priorities and translate approved initiatives into executable site plans and measurable results. Serving as the senior operational contact for the site, the General Manager coordinates Scientific Games teams, the Lottery, vendors, and other stakeholders to maintain system availability, resolve issues, complete projects, and achieve the client’s operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day operation and delivery of the core lottery system and its supporting technical environment.
• Ensure that systems, software, infrastructure, services, projects, and personnel meet contractual, operational, security, quality, and performance requirements.
• Maintain accountability for system availability, service reliability, incident response, problem resolution, change execution, and operational readiness.
• Direct the implementation of site projects, system releases, upgrades, maintenance activities, and other approved initiatives.
• Develop and manage detailed operational plans, schedules, resource requirements, risks, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
• Maintain end-to-end ownership of operational issues, including escalation, stakeholder communication, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and timely resolution.
• Ensure performance against service-level agreements and other contractual commitments.
• Provide clear, timely updates to internal and external stakeholders regarding operational performance, incidents, project delivery, risks, and corrective actions.
• Lead and develop site personnel through workforce planning, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and professional development.
• Establish clear team priorities, responsibilities, performance expectations, and accountability for results.
• Coordinate internal departments, technical teams, vendors, and external stakeholders to ensure effective execution and uninterrupted service delivery.
• Maintain compliance with contractual obligations, company policies, regulatory requirements, security standards, and internal and external audit requirements.
• Develop and manage the site operating budget, forecasts, staffing plans, and expenditures.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency, service quality, reliability, and cost performance.
• Use operational data, service metrics, and key performance indicators to monitor results, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain a productive working relationship with the Lottery based on transparency, responsiveness, reliable execution, and consistent delivery.
• Partner with the Account Managing Director by providing operational analysis, delivery estimates, resource requirements, and feasibility assessments for proposed initiatives.
• Translate approved account plans and customer initiatives into site-level actions and ensure their successful execution.
• Foster a culture of safety, collaboration, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering, operations, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Ten to fifteen years of related professional experience, including progressively responsible operational leadership roles.
• Ten or more years of experience managing operations, service delivery, technical teams, or mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including performance management, talent development, and workforce planning.
• Experience managing complex technology operations, production systems, projects, releases, and critical incidents.
• Strong experience in budget management, forecasting, operational planning, and management-level reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in the lottery or gaming industry.
• Experience supporting lottery systems, technology platforms, software applications, systems hardware, or network communications.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment with contractual, security, compliance, and audit requirements.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong operational leadership and execution capabilities.
• Ability to translate priorities and commitments into actionable plans and measurable results.
• Sound judgment and the ability to make timely decisions during high-pressure operational situations.
• Strong project delivery, incident-management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to establish accountability and drive outcomes across a matrixed organization.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with employees, customers, technical teams, vendors, and senior management.
• Strong organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and time-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, risks, and dependencies.
• Ability to quickly understand modern technologies and complex technical environments.
• Strong customer service orientation and the ability to build productive working relationships.
• Adaptable, practical, collaborative, and results-oriented leadership style.

Availability and Physical Requirements

• Must be available on an on-call basis, including nights, weekends, and holidays, to support critical operations, manage escalations, and oversee major production or project activities.
• Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds.
• Must be able to sit, stand, bend, and stretch as required to perform the essential functions of the role, with such movement potentially occurring for 50% or more of the workday.

Work Conditions

Scientific Games, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, "SG") are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you. This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. SG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you'd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.