Senior Program Manager

About the Job

Serving as an experienced delivery leader on the Global Product Strategic Delivery Team, the Senior Program Manager is responsible for guiding complex, enterprise-scale initiatives across Aristocrat's global product portfolio. This professional role drives cross-functional execution across Product, Technology, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Compliance, and leadership teams to ensure strategic priorities are translated into clear plans, disciplined governance, measurable outcomes, and sustained business value.


As a trusted partner to senior leaders, this role provides structure in ambiguity, influences alignment across matrixed teams, and drives accountability for delivery commitments, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes. The Senior Program Manager operates with a high degree of autonomy. They engage regularly with senior management. They help mature standards, tools, data analysis, and fulfillment practices across the organization.


What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs with enterprise visibility, business-critical outcomes, and multiple interconnected workstreams.

• Translate strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans, achievements, success measures, governance routines, and ownership models.

• Drive program outcomes through partnership with business leaders to define success measures, connect delivery plans to measurable business objectives, track benefits realization, and ensure programs deliver intended business value.

• Establish and maintain executive-level program artifacts, dashboards, reporting, and performance metrics that provide clarity and enable informed decision-making.

• Proactively identify, assess, raise, and drive resolution of risks, issues, dependencies, decision points, and delivery constraints.

• Facilitate governance forums, leadership reviews, and decision-making routines that promote timely resolution of critical issues, clear accountability, and disciplined execution.

• Influence cross-functional teams without direct authority by clarifying scope, sequencing, commitments, trade-offs, and success measures.

• Influence the continuous improvement of standards, delivery methodologies, tools, templates, and reporting practices while mentoring less experienced team members.

• Own program outcomes by aligning delivery plans with quantifiable business objectives, customer impact, financial considerations, and executive-level success metrics.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in business, Technology, Information Systems, Finance, Product, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.

• 10+ years of experience leading complex programs, critical initiatives, enterprise delivery efforts, or related cross-functional transformation work.

• Proven success operating as a seasoned program leader across multiple functional areas, preferably in product, technology, gaming, digital, or similarly complex environments.

• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to frame complex issues, risks, decisions, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly for senior leadership.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build trust with collaborators, and gain alignment in sensitive, ambiguous, or fast-paced situations.

• Strong knowledge of program management practices, governance models, risk and dependency management, performance reporting, and delivery methodologies.

• Experience working with globally distributed teams and within environments involving regulatory, compliance, operational, or commercialization constraints.

• Advanced proficiency with enterprise delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, and Power BI.

Why Aristocrat?


Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. 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 7,400 employees worldwide is united by our company's mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play.


We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability.


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


This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.

Compensation Philosophy

We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognise your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location.


Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.


Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.