Job Posting Title
Technical Product Manager
Summary
We're pioneers in our field and relentless in our pursuit of excellence. Aristocrat is an ideas company at heart, which means innovation is embedded into every aspect of our business. Whether we're designing sleek new cabinets, premium game content or award-winning systems, we apply fresh thinking and creativity to deliver the world's greatest gaming experience, every day. With cool new titles, such as Game of Thrones TM, Sons of Anarchy and Lightning Link along with our award-winning app Heart of Vegas, we're continually pushing the bar of creativity.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a Product Manager with a passion for gaming, defining product requirements and collaborating with development teams to deliver our product strategy. This role will be highly visible to senior leadership and at the core of defining product requirements to support development of new and existing gaming products and engines.
Qualified candidates will be able to understand needs of the customer, as well as both player and market trends within the various markets. The individual will interact with a wide range of internal customers across all departments. This role will be responsible to communicate the requirements for the product they are assigned, ensuring market problems are solved, and product deadlines are met with high quality. This position also entails dependency alignment, backlog prioritization and is actively involved in live issue resolution. The individual will work closely with game studios and mobile app organizations to ensure that market needs are solved in product releases. This role will be at the forefront of Aristocrat's continuing mission to maintain a dominant position in the market through effective and creative product strategy.
What We're Looking For
Job Requirements

• Own the product content enablement roadmap, ensuring strategic alignment persists across multiple product teams.
• Support development of high-quality products through clear and complete product requirements at the start of development.
• Work directly with cross functional agile teams to deliver on sprint priorities.
• Build strong relationships with internal engineering teams and technical project managers both at customer and partnership level.
• Work directly with game studios to understand, prioritize, and address their needs and pain points.
• Run multiple concurrent initiatives, each with unique stakeholders.
• Collaborate with technology delivery leads to commit to and execute on product delivery timelines.
• Align dependencies across technology stacks and participates in defining product solutions to deliver a product meeting market need.
• Serve as a team representative at all levels, including customers and executive leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience documenting software product requirements and product backlog management.
• An understanding of slot gameplay mechanics or game development experience strongly preferred.
• 2+ years of experience leading teams building products for mobile platforms using Unity3D strongly preferred.
• 2+ years of experience leading SDKs, GDKs, or other enterprise products, where the product and customer is technical in nature.
• Ability to compile documentation and report accurate and consumable product status.
• 5+ years of experience in understanding and communicating a product vision.
• Must be able to comprehend technical challenges, understand limitations and impact to the customer, and manage risk in reviewing technology options.
• 5+ years of experience working in cross-functional teams, especially with software developers, project managers, and other product managers.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; welcomes the challenge of refining a high-level vision into deliverable requirements.
• Must be a "team-player" with the ability to work within collaborative environments to organize and facilitate program reviews, roadmap reviews, new product initiation meetings and investigations, and business case reviews.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-starter with exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.

Why Aristocrat?
Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We're a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.
We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. We offer a range of flexible working options through all.flex, our flexible hybrid work model and invite you to have a conversation with us about flexible working. EEO M/F/D/V

• World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
• Robust benefits package
• Global career opportunities

Our Values

• All about the Player
• Talent Unleashed
• Collective Brilliance
• Good Business Good Citizen

The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.