Senior Project Management
Aristocrat is seeking a highly skilled and well-organised Senior Project Manager to join the Premium Games Studio. In this key position, the individual 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 organisation that embraces innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
- 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. (required)
- 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. (required)
- Demonstrated experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional development projects from early concept through completion. (required)
- Strong organisational abilities, capable of handling several concurrent projects, shifting priorities, and overlapping deadlines. (required)
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and collaborator management skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical, creative, operational, and leadership teams. (required)
- Good understanding of game development workflows, production pipelines, QA cycles, and release-readiness processes. (required)
- Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms. (required)
- Proactive approach with the ability to identify risks early, bring up concerns appropriately, and drive practical outcomes. (required)
- Ability to collaborate effectively across cultures, time zones, and distributed teams, including India-based teams and external studio partners. (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.
