Description
Are you ready to embrace an exceptionally outstanding and ambitious opportunity? At Aristocrat, we seek a Vice President, Aggregation to lead and develop our global aggregation ecosystem. This critical role will lead all aspects of the strategy, commercial performance, and evolution of all third-party content partnerships. You will make sure our content suppliers, both experienced and new, monetize effectively across regulated markets. You will work with Aristocrat's global games studios, operations, product, delivery, and technology teams to promote innovation and balanced revenue growth. Become part of a world-class team dedicated to delivering happiness through the power of play!
As VP, Aggregation, you will define and complete the global aggregation strategic vision and commercial growth, aligning with company product and market expansion objectives. You will own aggregation-related commercial performance, including margin optimization, supplier return on investment, and portfolio profitability. You will act as executive sponsor for strategic aggregation initiatives, including partnering with the global Aristocrat Product team for curated studio programs and content pipelines.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining and completing the global aggregation strategic vision and commercial growth, aligning with company product and market expansion objectives
- Owning aggregation-related commercial performance, including margin optimization, supplier return on investment, and portfolio profitability
- Acting as executive sponsor for strategic aggregation initiatives, including partnering with the global Aristocrat Product team for curated studio programs and content pipelines
- Providing executive-level reporting, insights, and recommendations to the Interactive Senior Leadership team
- Owning and evolving the IGNITE strategy, ensuring a scalable pipeline of emerging studios aligned to Aggregation growth and differentiation objectives
- Leading or coordinating complex commercial negotiations, including revenue share models, exclusivity frameworks, and long-term strategic partnerships
- Defining partner segmentation and engagement models, from high-volume strategic suppliers to innovation-led studios, including those within the IGNITE ecosystem
- Ensuring ongoing optimization of partner performance through structured reviews, portfolio analysis, and data-led decision making
- Defining the aggregation platform vision and roadmap collaboratively with Product and Engineering leadership
- Coordinating onboarding, technical integration, certification, and lifecycle management of third-party content at enterprise scale
- Ensuring seamless content distribution, strong platform stability, API-first architecture, and high service levels for internal operators and external clients
- Ensuring IGNITE studios are effectively coordinated within the aggregation platform, enabling scalable onboarding, distribution, and performance management
- Directing aggregation growth plans across regulated markets worldwide, customizing content and collaboration approaches to meet local needs
- Anticipating and handling regulatory change, ensuring aggregation remains compliant without sacrificing commercial agility
- Enabling cross-market distribution and leveraging the company's global footprint to improve content reach and returns
- Defining important metrics and governance frameworks across aggregation, suppliers, and studios
- Using insights to prioritize roadmap decisions, studio investments, and portfolio rationalization
- Coordinating performance and return on investment of IGNITE studios, using data to inform investment, scaling, and portfolio prioritization decisions
- Representing the business as an executive leader in aggregation at industry conferences, trade shows, and strategic forums
- Building and maintaining relationships with innovation hubs, studio communities, and industry bodies
- Positioning the organization as a preferred aggregation partner for both established and emerging studios
- Building and leading high-performing global teams
- Developing leadership capability and succession within the aggregation team
- Acting as a role model for collaboration, accountability, and innovation within a complex, global matrixed organization