Job Description

This is an exciting chance to become a Senior Program Manager – New Market Entry at Aristocrat, working within the Content Operations Team. You will direct complex, cross-functional projects that allow Aristocrat to launch products, content, and capabilities in new regulated markets. Your responsibilities include managing a portfolio of strategic new market entry projects, coordinating actions among Product, Technology, Commercial, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and Operations teams. This role plays a key part in Aristocrat’s growth strategy by providing transparency to senior leadership, encouraging timely decisions, and maintaining alignment on scope, risks, dependencies, timelines, and business outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of strategic new market entry programs, providing clear visibility and reporting to executive leadership and cross-functional collaborators.
• Translate market-entry scope into actionable delivery plans with clear outcomes, achievements, dependencies, owners, and critical-path activities.
• Manage programs using approved delivery methodologies, tracking achievements, risks, actions, issues, decisions, dependencies, and delivery progress throughout the program lifecycle.
• Drive progress across Product, Technology, Commercial, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Operations, and go-to-market teams.
• Coordinate and facilitate delivery across multiple business functions, ensuring alignment, accountability, and timely decision-making.
• Establish and manage program governance, including steering committees, working groups, launch-readiness reviews, and decision forums.
• Maintain program artifacts, dashboards, and reporting using tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, Power BI, SharePoint, Confluence, and Jira.
• Proactively identify, bring up, and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies that may impact launch timelines, regulatory readiness, or business outcomes.
• Drive visibility and accountability across workstreams, ensuring collaborators understand commitments, timelines, decisions, and delivery expectations.
• Support prioritization of requirements and delivery trade-offs to ensure launch-critical work is clearly defined and aligned to business value.
• Lead change management and collaborator alignment across global teams to support successful market launch and operational adoption.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Information Systems, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience managing medium to large, complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience working in product-led, technology, or digital organizations preferred.
• Familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and manage up to executive levels.
• Effective communicator who can synthesize complex information for diverse audiences.
• Experience working with globally distributed and cross-functional teams.
• Experience coordinating multiple collaborators, workstreams, and dependencies across large-scale initiatives.
• Experience with enterprise tooling (Jira, Confluence, Power BI, MS Project, etc.).
• Proficient in MS Office for document creation, reporting, and executive presentations.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to establish structure, transparency, and accountability in ambiguous environments.
• PMP, PgMP, and/or Agile certification a plus.
• Prior experience working on market expansion, product launch, regulatory, compliance, or licensing-related programs is a plus.

About Us: Aristocrat and Aristocrat Interactive

Aristocrat is an Australia-based entertainment and content-creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading mobile and casino games, entertaining millions of people across the globe daily. Aristocrat has three operating business units, spanning regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness), and regulated online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive). Our team of over 7,300 employees worldwide is united by our company's mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

Aristocrat Interactive

Aristocrat Interactive is a regulated online real money gaming (RMG) business and was formed in 2024 when the Anaxi and NeoGames businesses (Anaxi, NeoGames, Aspire Global, BtoBet, and Pariplay) came together. The company is an industry leader in content and technology solutions for online RMG, offering a comprehensive suite of services that includes content, proprietary technology platforms, and a range of services across iLottery, iGaming, and online sports betting (OSB).

We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Diversity and inclusion are integral to our values of Talent Unleashed, Collective Brilliance, Good Business, Good Citizen, and It’s All About the Player.

Travel Expectations

Up to XX%

Additional Information

Depending on the nature of your role, you may be required to register with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.

About Aristocrat

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a leading gaming content creation company powered by technology to deliver industry-leading casino games together with mobile games and online real money games, collectively entertaining millions of players worldwide, every day. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Aristocrat has three operating business units, spanning regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money (Aristocrat Interactive). Our team of over 8,500 people across the globe are united by our company mission to bring joy to life through the power of play

Our Values

• All about the Player

• Talent Unleashed

• Collective Brilliance

• Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

None

Additional Information