Description
As the Game Explorer Team Lead, you will coordinate a team responsible for collecting and analysing player interaction data within free-to-play mobile games.
You will balance people leadership, project coordination, and hands-on gameplay research to ensure the delivery of accurate, high-quality insights that support product and market intelligence initiatives.
In this role, you will hire, train, and mentor Game Explorers, manage team priorities, improve data collection processes, and help drive operational excellence.
The ideal candidate is passionate about mobile games, highly organised, detail-oriented, and experienced in leading teams and delivering results across multiple projects.
Responsibilities
- Hire & train new Game Explorers to maintain the operational efficiency & expertise of the Game Exploration group
- Manage division of project work across multiple Game Explorers
- Define new data collection templates for team to use to precisely record & organise gameplay data
- Play a wide variety of free-to-play mobile games every day
- Collect detailed gameplay data from multiple playthroughs about level progression, item types & costs, live ops events, sales & offer details, marketing messages, & similar
- Change gameplay behaviour according to predefined playthrough scripts based on project needs & data collection objectives
- Reliably and proactively communicate with rest of Product Insights team, delivering time-sensitive data on schedule, on budget, and ensuring it meets quality requirements for every project
Requirements
- Passion for playing games – experience playing casual mobile games with in-app purchases daily is helpful
- Mentor – Experience hiring, onboarding, & training team members at different levels of expertise
- Planner – Experience coordinating & organising multiple projects across multi-person teams
- Highly reliable – Excellent time management skills & attention to detail required
- Flexible – Ability to respond to changing project requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – both concise & precise – required
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.