Hybrid Senior Project Manager - Premium Games Studio

Aristocrat Gaming; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Aristocrat Gaming is seeking a Senior Project Manager to guide the full lifecycle of Premium Games development from concept to delivery. You will lead cross-functional teams, translate priorities into actionable plans, and ensure timely decisions across internal and partner studios.

Based in Kraków, you will work in a hybrid model (three days per week in the Kraków office) and drive risk mitigation, roadmap sustainment, and clear stakeholder communication across engineering, art, QA, and product

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in PM, Business Admin, CS, Game Production, or related field.
• 5+ years of proven experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Producer, or similar role, ideally in gaming, software development, iLottery, digital products, or creative tech environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional developments from concept through completion.
• Strong organizational abilities to handle several concurrent projects, shifting priorities, and overlapping deadlines.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and collaborator management skills across technical, creative, operational, and leadership teams.
• Good understanding of game development workflows, production pipelines, QA cycles, and release-readiness processes.
• Experience using PM and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Proactive approach to identify risks and drive practical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project lifecycle for Premium Games from concept to handover readiness.
• Translate priorities and business objectives into clear project plans, timelines, and deliverables.
• Ensure progress with ownership, transparent communication, and timely decisions.
• Identify risks, blockers, and resource constraints; drive mitigation plans.
• Sustain and refresh the Studio roadmap with clear priorities and interconnections.
• Manage resource planning across internal, India-based, and external partner studios.
• Balance workload and priorities across multiple concurrent game development projects.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across game building, product, art, development, QA, math, and more.
• Facilitate planning sessions, roadmap reviews, status meetings, risk reviews, and checkpoints.
• Handle daily project coordination with third-party studios and ensure clear expectations.
• Maintain documentation of scope, schedules, decisions, risks, and dependencies.
• Contribute to refining project mgmt methods and governance standards.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Risk management

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Monday.com

Jira

Trello

Azure DevOps

Job description

Aristocrat Gaming is seeking a Senior Project Manager to guide the full lifecycle of Premium Games development from concept to delivery. You will lead cross-functional teams, translate priorities into actionable plans, and ensure timely decisions across internal and partner studios.

Based in Kraków, you will work in a hybrid model (three days per week in the Kraków office) and drive risk mitigation, roadmap sustainment, and clear stakeholder communication across engineering, art, QA, and product