Senior Vice President, People & Culture
The Senior Vice President, People & Culture is an enterprise role responsible for shaping people and organisational strategies that support Aristocrat's continued growth, global scale, and business performance. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, this role operates in a hybrid work environment, with an expectation of at least three days per week in the office.
Partnering closely with executive leaders across the enterprise, this role will build the organisational capabilities, leadership effectiveness, and workforce strategies required to achieve Aristocrat's long-term ambitions. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor and strategic navigator, guiding leaders through organisational transformation, talent and succession priorities, workforce planning, and evolving ways of working. This role requires a commercially minded People & Culture executive who combines deep functional expertise with pragmatism, commercial acumen, and fluency in AI, data, and technology-enabled transformation.
- Advise the senior leaders on organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, culture, workforce strategy, transformation, and business performance.
- Translate enterprise priorities into people and organisational strategies that strengthen execution and build sustainable capability.
- Strengthen talent and succession planning, executive development, and leadership pipelines across the enterprise.
- Help embed Aristocrat's global People & Culture operating model across the organisation to improve strategic impact, scalability, and business value.
- Set direction for significant organisational, talent, leadership, and workforce priorities and guide implementation through senior leaders.
- Lead complex transformations across the business involving organisational design, workforce change, operating model evolution, and new ways of working.
- Use workforce data and analytics to inform priorities, investment decisions, and organisational outcomes.
- Champion responsible adoption of AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve decision-making, productivity, and employee experience.
- Build alignment across functions and geographies while navigating complex and competing stakeholder priorities.
- Foster an inclusive, accountable, collaborative, and high-performance culture.
- Significant executive-level People & Culture leadership experience in complex, global organisations (required).
- Proven success partnering with executive leadership teams on enterprise strategy, organisational performance, and transformational change (required).
- Experience enabling organisations to achieve growth and scale (required).
- Deep expertise in organisational effectiveness, talent strategy, workforce planning, succession, leadership development, and change leadership (required).
- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect people strategy and investment to measurable business outcomes (required).
- Experience leading through senior leaders across multiple functions, regions, or enterprise capabilities (required).
- Demonstrated fluency in AI, workforce analytics, and technology-enabled transformation, including responsible use and governance (required).
- Exceptional executive presence, communication, influence, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills (required).
- Leadership approach aligned with Aristocrat's Enterprise Leadership Attributes (required).
- Ability to operate with sound judgment and a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced, evolving global environment (required).
- Must reside in the Las Vegas area (required).
- Comprehensive pay and benefits package
- Annual bonuses and incentives
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Paid time off
- Retirement plans
- Insurance coverage
- Relocation assistance
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.