Associate Product Manager - Gaming Ops
About the role
As Aristocrat continues to accelerate product innovation, launch new gaming content and cabinets, and manage increasingly complex product roadmaps, additional product management capacity is required to support execution. Current Product Managers are often balancing strategic roadmap ownership with tactical deliverables, creating capacity constraints that can impact speed to market, stakeholder responsiveness, and operational efficiency. An Associate Product Manager will provide dedicated support for product planning, requirements gathering, backlog management, market analysis, and cross-functional coordination.
This role will allow senior product leaders to focus on strategic priorities while ensuring day-to-day product activities are executed efficiently and consistently. Designed as an early-career product management role, this position provides broad exposure to product launches, portfolio management, market deployment strategies, commercial execution, and operational excellence within Gaming Operations.
What you'll do
- Support the planning and execution of go-to-market activities for Gaming Operations product launches.
- Assist in coordinating cross-functional launch readiness activities across Product Management, Studios, Gaming Operations, Marketing, Compliance, Market Planning, Customer Success, and Sales.
- Track key launch achievements, dependencies, and deliverables to help ensure successful product commercialization and deployment.
- Support launch readiness reviews by gathering information, maintaining documentation, and monitoring action items.
- Assist with developing and maintaining launch plans, deployment schedules, product documentation, and communication materials.
- Partner with product and operational teams to facilitate the transition of products from approval and readiness into market deployment.
- Monitor product launch performance, customer adoption, and portfolio metrics, providing insights and recommendations to support continuous improvement.
- Analyze customer, market, and operational data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks impacting product performance.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and status updates for leadership and cross-functional team members.
- Support the standardization and continuous improvement of launch processes, tools, governance, and reporting practices.
- Maintain awareness of competitive products, industry trends, and market conditions to support product planning and commercialization efforts.
- Assist Product Managers with portfolio planning, product lifecycle activities, and strategic initiatives as needed.
- What We're Looking For Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Product Management, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 1+ years of experience in product management, project management, commercial operations, analytics, gaming, or a related business function.
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into recommendations.
- Experience with reporting and data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated curiosity, initiative, and a desire to develop product management and commercialization expertise.
- Gaming, technology, product launch, or commercialization experience is a plus.
- 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.
What you'll bring
- As Aristocrat continues to accelerate product innovation, launch new gaming content and cabinets, and manage increasingly complex product roadmaps, additional product management capacity is required to support execution.
- An Associate Product Manager will provide dedicated support for product planning, requirements gathering, backlog management, market analysis, and cross-functional coordination.
- What We're Looking For Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Product Management, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 1+ years of experience in product management, project management, commercial operations, analytics, gaming, or a related business function.
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into recommendations.
- Experience with reporting and data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms preferred.
Benefits
- 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.
- Aristocrat Leisure Limited (Aristocrat) is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games.
- Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe.
- Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery.
- Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive).
- Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day.
- Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content.
- Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people.
- We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat.
- Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day.
- We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we bring joy to life through the power of play!
- Aristocrat Leisure Limited or its affiliates worldwide provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any protected characteristic, such as race, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by local, state/provincial or federal law.
- If you need assistance or accommodation applying for a position, please reach out to helpdesk-recruiting@aristocrat.com.
- At Aristocrat, sustainability is embedded in our strategy, operations and the values and culture of our teams across the globe.
- Our Sustainability report provides information on the progress we’ve made each year, across our four strategic sustainability pillars – Good Governance & Responsible Business, Empowering Safer Play (formerly responsible gameplay), Operational Sustainability & Climate, and People & Community.
- You can read more about our progress here: https://www.aristocrat.com/sustainability/
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