Project Coordinator
The Project Coordinator will handle the end-to-end project planning process for games developed by the India team. This includes concept alignment, prioritisation, production, testing, approvals, and handover readiness.
The role involves defining and supervising project timelines, results, dependencies, risks, and key decisions across all active India roadmap initiatives. Project plans must be realistic, clearly communicated, and aligned with business priorities, studio capacity, and delivery expectations.
Coordination with delivery, QA, product, game design, development, art, and math functions is essential to support smooth execution and readiness for handover. The Project Coordinator will also supervise resource allocations across multiple parallel projects and maintain accurate documentation of roadmap priorities, project scope, schedules, achievements, risks, dependencies, decisions, and handover readiness.
- Handle the end-to-end project planning process for games developed by the India team, from concept alignment and prioritisation through production, testing, approvals, and handover readiness.
- Define and supervise project timelines, results, dependencies, risks, and key decisions across all active India roadmap initiatives.
- Ensure project plans are realistic, clearly communicated, and aligned with business priorities, studio capacity, and delivery expectations.
- Coordinate with delivery, QA, product, game design, development, art, math, and other relevant functions to support smooth execution and readiness for handover.
- Supervise resource allocations across multiple parallel projects and highlight capacity gaps, over-allocation in a timely manner.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of roadmap priorities, project scope, schedules, achievements, risks, dependencies, decisions, and handover readiness.
- Prepare regular roadmap, project status, risk, and resource reports for leadership and key participants.
- Support consistent project governance, including planning standards, tracking templates, reporting rhythms, and escalation processes.
- Drive continuous improvement in roadmap planning, communication, tracking accuracy, transparency, and execution efficiency.
- Partner with studio leadership and functional leads to support prioritisation decisions, roadmap trade-offs, and capacity planning.
- Analysing project risks and prioritisation.
- Drive effective communication of issues and risks to collaborators.
- 4+ years of demonstrated ability as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Producer, or similar role, ideally within gaming, software development, iLottery, digital products, or creative technology environments (required).
- Proven experience handling game development or software development roadmaps, including project planning, tracking, resource coordination, and collaborator communication (required).
- Experience working with distributed teams, offshore teams, cross-functional development teams, or external partners (preferred).
- Degree or equivalent experience or qualification in software engineering, project management, IT or another related field (required).
- Well versed with project execution methodologies (required).
- PMP or Prince Certification (preferred).
- Good understanding of various tools viz. JIRA, Confluence, Share point, PowerBI, Smartsheet (required).
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (required).
- Strong analytical, problem solving, negotiation and decision-making skills (required).
- Strong competence and demeanour for working in a Matrix organisation (required).
- Build a positive, collaborative working environment (required).
- Solid interpersonal skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills (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.