As the Director of Talent Acquisition, you will lead both the execution and transformation of Talent Acquisition across your region, embedding AI into how hiring operates and elevating the function into a data-driven, insight-led capability.

This role is a trusted partner to the Vice President, Global Head of Talent Acquisition and senior business leaders, responsible for building a function that understands its pipelines, leverages AI at scale, and drives better hiring decisions through insight—not activity.

What You’ll Do

Be the point person for Aristocrat in all things related to recruitment and talent attraction for your region.

• Act as the primary leader for Talent Acquisition across your region, owning both delivery and the adoption of AI as a core operating standard.

• Lead through managers, building and scaling high-performing teams of Talent Acquisition Partners by setting clear expectations for AI adoption, pipeline understanding, and data-driven execution.

• Drive the adoption of AI across the Talent Acquisition lifecycle, ensuring tools such as Workday, Paradox, Metaview, Textio, and TalentNeuron are embedded into how work gets done across teams.

• Build organizational capability to understand talent pipelines end-to-end, including pipeline composition, candidate flow, drop-off points, funnel conversion patterns, and talent density across markets and roles.

• Ensure managers and their teams use data-driven insights to enable smarter hiring decisions, influencing role building, talent targeting, and hiring strategy.

• Shift Talent Acquisition from reactive execution to proactive hiring, where high-quality talent pools are built, understood, and actively managed ahead of demand.

• Develop and guide managers to elevate their teams toward Adoptive and Transformative levels of AI proficiency, ensuring consistent use of tools, workflows, and insight-led practices.

• Establish and embed structured workflows and standards across sourcing, outreach, interview evaluation, and candidate management to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability across regions.

• Build a culture of continuous experimentation and improvement, where new AI capabilities are tested, refined, and scaled across teams through managers.

• Use tools such as Metaview Deep Research and TalentNeuron to generate deeper insight into talent markets, and ensure these insights are translated into actionable strategies across the organization.

• Partner with People & Culture and Diversity & Inclusion leaders to use data and insight to identify gaps, improve representation, and drive targeted interventions across the hiring funnel.

• Ensure all AI-enabled practices meet global regulatory, privacy, and compliance standards, with clear governance and accountability embedded across leadership layers.

What You’ll Bring

The hard-working relationship-builder we seek is an adept strategist and inspiring leader to the business with these qualifications.

Must-Have

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

• 12+ years of Talent Acquisition experience across in-house and agency environments

• 5+ years of leadership experience managing managers and geographically distributed teams

• Demonstrated ability to build, scale, and evolve Talent Acquisition functions or operating models

• Strong experience bringing to bear technology and data to improve recruiting efficiency

• Experience using talent intelligence platforms such as TalentNeuron or Draup to advise strategy

• Proven track record to influence senior collaborators and inspire change across the business

• Strong analytical approach with the ability to interpret and act on pipeline and talent data

• Deep understanding of global recruitment practices, employment laws, and compliance requirements

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of global recruitment guidelines in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

• Prior experience with merger & acquisition environments and supporting the in-flight integration

AI Fluency Expectations

• Proven track record to drive AI adoption at scale through managers and teams

• Experience integrating AI within workflows across sourcing, outreach, interview evaluation, scheduling, and insights

• Strong understanding of pipeline analytics, including candidate flow, drop-off, conversion patterns, and talent density

• Experience demonstrating AI tools such to generate meaningful talent insights

• Ability to translate data into clear, actionable hiring strategies at an organisational level

• Track record of improving how Talent Acquisition operates through AI, data, and structured workflows

This job description may have been reviewed and enhanced using AI-assisted tools to improve clarity, consistency, and inclusivity. All final content, role requirements and hiring decisions remain subject to human review and approval by Aristocrat.

Compensation Philosophy

We offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support your wellbeing, and recognise your contribution to our success. Our approach is underpinned by a pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact. Your specific compensation package will be determined by factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location.

Depending on your role and location, you may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits.

Specific details about compensation and benefits for this position will be discussed during the recruitment process.

About Aristocrat

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (Aristocrat) is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe. Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery.

Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive). Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day.

Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content. Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people. We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat.

Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day. We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we bring joy to life through the power of play!

Employment Equality Statement

Aristocrat Leisure Limited or its affiliates worldwide provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to any protected characteristic, such as race, color, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by local, state/provincial or federal law.

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Empowering a Sustainable Future

At Aristocrat, sustainability is embedded in our strategy, operations and the values and culture of our teams across the globe.

Our Sustainability report provides information on the progress we’ve made each year, across our four strategic sustainability pillars – Good Governance & Responsible Business, Empowering Safer Play (formerly responsible gameplay), Operational Sustainability & Climate, and People & Community.

You can read more about our progress here: https://www.aristocrat.com/sustainability/