Game Explorer Lead
As the Game Explorer Team Lead, you will coordinate a team responsible for collecting and analyzing player interaction data within free-to-play mobile games. You will balance people leadership, project coordination, and hands-on gameplay research to ensure the delivery of accurate, high-quality insights that support product and market intelligence initiatives. In this role, you will hire, train, and mentor Game Explorers, manage team priorities, improve data collection processes, and help drive operational excellence. The ideal candidate is passionate about mobile games, highly organised, detail-oriented, and experienced in leading teams and delivering results across multiple projects.
- Hire & train new Game Explorers to maintain the operational efficiency & expertise of the Game Exploration group
- Manage division of project work across multiple Game Explorers
- Define new data collection templates for team to use to precisely record & organise gameplay data
- Play a wide variety of free-to-play mobile games every day
- Collect detailed gameplay data from multiple playthroughs about level progression, item types & costs, live ops events, sales & offer details, marketing messages, & similar
- Change gameplay behaviour according to predefined playthrough scripts based on project needs & data collection objectives
- Reliably and proactively communicate with rest of Product Insights team, delivering time-sensitive data on schedule, on budget, and ensuring it meets quality requirements for every project
- Passion for playing games – experience playing casual mobile games with in-app purchases daily is helpful (required)
- Experience hiring, onboarding, & training team members at different levels of expertise (required)
- Experience coordinating & organising multiple projects across multi-person teams (required)
- Excellent time management skills & attention to detail required (required)
- Ability to respond to changing project requirements (required)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – both concise & precise – required (required)
- Robust benefits package
- Global career opportunities
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.
