Senior Program Manager

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, Share Point, 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, Pg MP, and/or Agile certification a plus.
• Prior experience working on market expansion, product launch, regulatory, compliance, or licensing‑related programs is a plus.

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.

• Travel Expectations
• None
• Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full‑time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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