Studio Operations Manager

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Job Summary

Job Description

This role involves managing day-to-day operations and administrative needs of the studio. The Studio Operations Manager will support multiple teams across different locations, including software developers, game designers, project managers, and art/creative and test engineers. They will collaborate with internal and external partners, facilitating, reporting, and guiding projects throughout their lifecycle. Responsibilities include embedding development processes, monitoring and sharing observations to improve outcomes, supporting strategic plans, and leading administrative matters. This role also includes facilitating planning activities, identifying and mitigating risks, monitoring delivery, promoting a positive team culture, and managing expense priorities.
Must have:
  • Experience in delivery or project management
  • Experience working across a multi-disciplinary team
  • Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
  • A solutions-first mindset while seeking consensus
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Perks:
  • World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
  • Robust benefits package
  • Global career opportunities

Job Details

This role will facilitate day-to-day operations & manage the studio’s administrative needs. It’ll support multiple teams, across geographies, consisting of Software Developers, Game Designers, Project Managers, Art/Creative and Test engineers. It will work closely with internal & external collaborators, facilitating, reporting on & guiding the delivery of projects throughout their life cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Work with team leads to embedding development and quality processes. Regularly monitor & share observations to improve the timeliness, productivity, and quality of results. You’ll maintain a high level of transparency with the leadership team & work with them to ensure the right things are monitored, the findings shared in a form that satisfies tactical & strategic needs.
  • Work with studio leadership to support strategic plans and objectives.
  • Facilitates & drives towards consensus on operational matters, ensures operations are effective at delivering upon studio needs (measure, assess, feedback, refine).
  • Take the lead on administrative matters, proposing solutions while seeking consensus when consensus is required.
  • Facilitate & participate in planning activities, work with team leads to identify dependencies and track these through to their resolution.
  • Engage team leads to identifying and raising risks on time, ensuring that, where possible, mitigation strategies are proposed & actioned.
  • Monitor delivery, share observations, work with leads to ensure that there is accountability & buy-in from both delivery & quality perspectives. Where there are exceptions, there is a focus on constructive messaging & course correction.
  • Facilitate meaningful & effective retrospectives. You believe failure can be a great teacher; that a constructive, blame-free culture is the best way to solicit lessons learnt & ultimately improve.
  • Promote an excellent team culture. You understand your role as a communicator & facilitator resonates both within & beyond the team.
  • Work with studio leadership to plan, staff, budget & manage expense priorities. Capture & communicate these effectively, being conscious of your internal & external customers’ needs.

What We're Looking For

  • Demonstrable accomplishments in delivery management, Project Management, or a relevant domain.
  • Experience working across a multi-disciplinary team, possessing different levels of technical & domain fluency.
  • Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
  • A solutions-first mindset while seeking consensus, where decisions shouldn’t be made in isolation. You’ll have the instincts & experience to know the difference.
  • You enjoy finding the story in data but understand that care needs to be taken in its analysis. You ensure that it is neither overwhelming nor misleading & supported by a robust hypothesis.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment

Why Aristocrat?

Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. 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. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. EEO M/F/D/V

  • World Leader in Gaming Entertainment

  • Robust benefits package

  • Global career opportunities

Our Values

  • All about the Player

  • Talent Unleashed

  • Collective Brilliance

  • Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

None

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.

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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About The Company

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 tobring joy to life through the power of play.For further information visit the Group's website at

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