At Aristocrat, we are passionate about crafting outstanding gaming experiences that bring happiness to life through the power of play. We are seeking a highly skilled and well-organized Senior Project Manager to join our Premium Games Studio. In this key position, you will guide the entire lifecycle of Premium Games development, ensuring each project is successfully completed from initial concept through to final delivery. This is a compelling opportunity to lead a dynamic team and contribute meaningfully within a world-class organization that embraces innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
What You'll Do- Lead the end-to-end project lifecycle for Premium Games, from concept phase through to handover readiness.
- Translate studio priorities, game concepts, and business objectives into clear project plans, timelines, achievements, and deliverables.
- Ensure each game development initiative progresses with clear ownership, transparent communication, and timely decision-making.
- Proactively identify risks, blockers, and resource constraints, and drive effective mitigation plans with relevant collaborators.
- Take charge of, sustain, and regularly refresh the Studio roadmap, guaranteeing transparent awareness of priorities, schedules, and interconnections.
- Manage resource planning across the Premium Studio, incorporating internal teams, India-based teams, and external third-party partner studios.
- Balance workload, capacity, and priorities across multiple concurrent game development projects.
- Coordinate cross-functional execution across game building, product, art, development, QA, math, and other relevant teams.
- Facilitate planning sessions, roadmap reviews, project status meetings, risk reviews, and key checkpoints.
- Handle everyday project coordination alongside third-party partner studios, ensuring that expectations, deliverables, and timelines are well specified.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of project scope, schedules, achievements, decisions, risks, and dependencies.
- Contribute to shaping and ongoing refinement of project management methods and governance standards within the Studio.
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Game Production, or a related field; equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
- 5+ years of proven experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Producer, or similar role, ideally within gaming, software development, iLottery, digital products, or creative technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional development projects from early concept through completion.
- Strong organizational abilities, capable of handling several concurrent projects, shifting priorities, and overlapping deadlines.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and collaborator management skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical, creative, operational, and leadership teams.
- Good understanding of game development workflows, production pipelines, QA cycles, and release-readiness processes.
- Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Proactive approach with the ability to identify risks early, bring up concerns appropriately, and drive practical outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across cultures, time zones, and distributed teams, including India-based teams and external studio partners.
Join us in crafting the future of gaming and help us bring happiness to millions of players worldwide!
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. 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
Travel Expectations
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At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Game Production, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years proven experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Producer, or similar role
- Experience leading cross-functional development projects from concept through completion
- Strong organizational abilities handling multiple concurrent projects and shifting priorities
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Good understanding of game development workflows, production pipelines, QA cycles, and release-readiness processes
- Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Jira, Trello, or Azure DevOps
- Proactive risk identification and mitigation approach
- Ability to collaborate across cultures, time zones, and distributed teams (including India-based teams and external partners)
Aristocrat Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Aristocrat and has not been reviewed or approved by Aristocrat.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage offers multiple Aetna options with preventive care fully covered and $0 in‑network outpatient mental health visits, plus employer‑paid premiums on at least one dental and one vision plan. Feedback suggests first‑day eligibility and HSA funding increase perceived value.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave provides up to 12 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 days for secondary caregivers, with adoption/surrogacy reimbursement and access to Lyra sessions. Feedback suggests these supports materially enhance family and mental wellbeing.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The SuperShare program matches employee share purchases with free shares up to a defined annual limit, with clear enrollment windows and a two‑year vest. Feedback suggests this structure delivers uncommon ownership value compared with standard ESPPs.
Aristocrat Insights
What We Do
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an ASX20 listed company and one of the world’s leading providers of gaming solutions. We’re licensed in over 300 jurisdictions and operate in over 90 countries around the world. We’re also proud to have a team of over 6500 employees that deliver outstanding results by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity and technology each day. We offer a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, social gaming and casino management systems, but it doesn’t stop there. Despite our global presence and exponential growth, we remain an ideas company at heart that is committed to delivering outstanding results for our customers and players and an unparalleled experience for our employees, who have the opportunity to grow, be inspired and be the best they can be. Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us to live our mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play – every day. Come and join us – let’s play!
Why Work With Us
Individually we’re great, but together we’re brilliant. Our employees are the beating heart of our business and we attract the best people in the industry thanks to our unique and inspiring culture. Come and join the team and help bring joy to life through the power of play.
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