Vice President, Global Analytics & Data Science
Aristocrat is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games. Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, free-to-play mobile games and online real money games.
Job Description
About The Role
The VP, Global Analytics and AI COE will define and manage the company’s analytics and AI center of excellence, aligned with business objectives and in partnership with the CDAO. This is a highly collaborative role, involving balancing technical expertise with business insight to drive an effective analytics service operating model.
This role leads the development and ongoing management of a global, customer-facing analytics and AI shared service organization, responsible for delivering analytics-as-a-service solutions that support both internal collaborators and external partners. The VP will oversee multiple concurrent workloads, ensuring effective resource planning, prioritization, and operational scalability across analytics delivery, AI innovation, and ML Ops.
The role also involves translating company goals into an actionable analytics and AI strategy, roadmap, and shared service operating model, promoting the use of advanced tools and platforms.
What you’ll do
Strategic Leadership in Analytics & AI
- Translate company goals into clear analytics and AI roadmap, driving adoption of advanced methods, tools, and platforms.
- Serve as an inspiring leader on emerging AI technologies, finding opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage.ge.
Advanced Analytics & AI Solutions
- Lead the development and scaling of AI-powered dashboards, reporting platforms, and decision-support systems.
- Drive the use of predictive, prescriptive, and generative AI models to support both business transformation and customer value creation.
- Champion self-service analytics capabilities for internal collaborators and business units.
Analytics as a Service (AaaS)
- Develop and implement a strategy to provide analytics and AI through a service model for external customers.
- Partner with product, technology, and commercial teams to design, package, and scale customer-facing analytics solutions.
- Ensure that customer-facing analytics are reliable, secure, scalable, and differentiated in the marketplace.
Machine Learning Operations
- Be responsible for the ML Ops team, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining models in production.
- Establish guidelines for model governance, lifecycle management, performance tracking, and ethical AI use.
- Partner with technology teams to ensure analytics and AI solutions are scalable, secure, and enterprise-ready.
Team & Culture
- Build and lead a global, high-performing team of analytics, data science, and ML Ops professionals.
- Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous learning within the analytics & AI organization.
- Collaborate with leaders across functions to embed analytics and AI into business decision-making processes.
What We're Looking For
- 15+ years of progressive experience in analytics, data science, or AI transformation, including at least 5 years in senior or executive leadership roles.
- Proven track record of defining and delivering analytics and AI strategies that drive measurable business impact.
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling analytics and AI platforms, including analytics-as-a-service (AaaS) or customer-facing analytics products.
- Expertise in AI/ML technologies, including predictive modeling, generative AI, and advanced analytics methodologies.
- Strong understanding of ML Ops practices, including model deployment, governance, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Experience leading global, cross-functional teams across analytics, data science, and engineering fields.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills — able to influence C-suite partners and translate complex analytics and AI concepts into strategic insights.
- Strong familiarity with modern data and analytics stacks, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
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
Up to 25%
Pay Range
$262,028 - $486,623 per year
Our goal is to pay a market competitive salary focusing near the median of our pay ranges. However, final offers for all positions will be based on several factors such as experience level, education, skills, work location, and internal pay equity.
This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching, more details available at https://atibenefits.com/.
Additional Information
This role is subject to mandatory background screening and regulatory approvals. As part of your employment with Aristocrat, you may be required to complete a criminal background check, submit fingerprints, and obtain licenses or registrations with applicable gaming regulatory authorities.
Aristocrat operates in a highly regulated environment and holds licenses in over 340 gaming jurisdictions worldwide. To meet our global compliance obligations, you will be required to provide the disclosure of relevant personal and background information to government agencies, sovereign nations/tribal regulators, and other applicable gaming regulatory bodies. This is a condition of Aristocrat’s gaming licenses. The specific information required may vary depending on the jurisdiction and project assignment.
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.
The Vice President, Global Analytics & Data Science, will define, scale, and lead the company’s enterprise Analytics-as-a-Service (AaaS) organization, aligned with business objectives and in partnership with the Chief Data and Analytics Officer. This role requires a shown people and service leader who has successfully grown analytics and data science capabilities into a large, high-touch customer-facing organization supporting diverse business needs.
The role balances business partnership, service delivery excellence, and technology leadership, with a strong focus on translating complex data into clear dashboards, insights, and narratives that drive action. The VP will be accountable for setting expectations with internal and external customers, establishing scalable service models, and ensuring analytics outputs are trusted, adopted, and impactful.
This leader will also define the future vision for analytics, data science, and ML, including how emerging AI capabilities can be responsibly leveraged to increase scale, insight velocity, and decision quality across the enterprise.
What You'll DoStrategic Leadership in Analytics
- Define and implement an enterprise analytics strategy that enables a scalable, customer-facing Analytics-as-a-Service operating model.
- Establish service models, engagement patterns, prioritization frameworks, and success metrics that balance business demand, delivery capacity, and strategic value.
- Act as a senior advisor to business leaders and customers, setting clear expectations on scope, timelines, tradeoffs, and outcomes for analytics engagements.
- Building a long-term vision for analytics evolves the organization from reporting to insight-led decision enablement, including predictive and prescriptive modelling of data and responsible adoption of AI-powered analytics.
- Promote data storytelling as a core skill in the analytics team, making sure insights are clear, contextual, and ready for decision-making.
- Establish standards for visualization, narrative flow, and communication with executives across analytics outputs.
- Ensure analytics leaders and practitioners can turn complex analytical results into business-relevant stories that drive action at all organizational levels.
- Offer knowledgeable guidance on BI, analytics, and AI platforms, with a solid understanding of what high-quality, scalable analytics look like.
- Collaborate with data engineering and technology teams to ensure analytics platforms are reliable, user-friendly, and capable of supporting future growth.
- Define how AI-driven analytics (such as augmented analytics, natural language insights, and automation) can ethically improve scale, efficiency, and customer experience.
15+ years of dynamic experience in analytics, data science, or data-driven transformation,
5+ years in senior or executive leadership roles within analytics, data science, or data-driven transformation
Consistent record of defining and delivering enterprise analytics strategies that drive measurable business impact.
Demonstrated experience building and scaling analytics and data science platforms.
Expertise in AI/ML technologies, including predictive modeling, generative AI, and advanced analytics methodologies.
Strong understanding of ML Ops practices, including model deployment, governance, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
Experience leading global, cross-functional teams spanning analytics, data science, and engineering.
Confirmed ability to collaborate effectively with product, technology, and commercial organizations to translate data and AI capabilities into business solutions.
Excellent communication and storytelling skills — able to influence C-suite collaborators and translate sophisticated analytics and AI concepts into strategic insights.
Strong familiarity with modern data and analytics stacks, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake), and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker). (Sql knowledge, conceptual, not daily coding)
Passion for innovation, operational excellence, and responsible AI.
Generative AI understanding, LLM capabilities and limitations, Prompting vs fine-tuning vs RAG, Hallucinations, grounding, and trust issues. Automation, AI Enablement & the Future of Analytics
Advanced degree (MS or PhD or equivalent experience or relevant experience) in Computer Science, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, or related field preferred.
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
Up to 25%Pay Range
$262,028 - $486,623 per yearOur goal is to pay a market competitive salary focusing near the median of our pay ranges. However, final offers for all positions will be based on several factors such as experience level, education, skills, work location, and internal pay equity.
This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching, more details available at https://atibenefits.com/.
Additional Information
This role is subject to mandatory background screening and regulatory approvals. As part of your employment with Aristocrat, you may be required to complete a criminal background check, submit fingerprints, and obtain licenses or registrations with applicable gaming regulatory authorities.
Aristocrat operates in a highly regulated environment and holds licenses in over 340 gaming jurisdictions worldwide. To meet our global compliance obligations, you will be required to provide the disclosure of relevant personal and background information to government agencies, sovereign nations/tribal regulators, and other applicable gaming regulatory bodies. This is a condition of Aristocrat’s gaming licenses. The specific information required may vary depending on the jurisdiction and project assignment.
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.
