EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy -Media and Gaming- Sr Director

About the role

EY-Parthenon’s unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, and corporate finance delivers real-world value—solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity.

The Interactive media and gaming industry is being reshaped by device-agnostic player behavior, rising content costs, and the shift of platform value toward franchise depth and developer experience. Operating models built for a prior era are straining to keep up, and clients need partners who can reframe the questions, not just answer them. As a Senior Director in our Interactive Media and Gaming practice, you will help shape how EY-Parthenon shows up in the sector, leading the delivery of our most complex engagements and the development of the next generation of gaming leaders within the firm.

Responsibilities

• Lead full engagements end-to-end across multiple concurrent cases, owning the answer, the client relationship, and the commercial outcome in partnership with the engagement Partner.
• Define the objective, scope, and structure of strategy and diligence engagements in consultation with the Partner and translate ambiguous client problems into the right answer trajectory before work begins.
• Hold the bar on intellectual rigor, pressure-testing hypotheses and chasing disconfirming evidence so the work reflects what is actually true rather than what is convenient to conclude.
• Continually deepen subject-matter knowledge by engaging directly with the games, player communities, creators, and operators that define the industry, and carry that depth into every client conversation.
• Serve as the primary senior client contact, building durable relationships at the C-suite, Board, and investor level, and acting as the day-to-day strategic counterpart on the most important client conversations.
• Originate and close new work by leading proposals, shaping pursuit strategy, and converting client relationships into sold engagements that grow the practice’s footprint.
• Form, defend, and externalize a differentiated point of view on the gaming industry's trajectory, shaping engagement scope, client dialogue, and the practice’s thought leadership.
• Help shape the direction of the Interactive Media and Gaming practice through sector strategy, hiring, capability investments, and external presence alongside Partners.
• Build, coach, and retain talent across the Director, Consultant, Senior Associate, and Associate levels, raising the bar on analytical rigor, industry fluency, and client leadership.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree with outstanding academic performance and 8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience.
• Direct, substantive experience in the interactive media and gaming sector, through prior strategy consulting work, senior in-house roles at a publisher, developer, platform, or investor, or a combination, sufficient to lead C-suite and Board conversations credibly from day one.
• Genuine investment in gaming, evidenced by ongoing engagement with the games, platforms, and communities the sector revolves around rather than professional exposure alone.
• A track record of owning full engagements end-to-end, including delivery quality, scope, commercial outcome, and senior client relationship, across complex strategy, transaction, and transformation work, and of doing so across multiple concurrent cases.
• The operational discipline to manage a portfolio of concurrent engagements, balance delivery quality against commercial outcomes, and protect team capacity while meeting client deadlines.
• A record of business development, including originating opportunities, leading proposals, and converting senior client relationships into sold work.

What we look for

We are looking for Senior Directors who genuinely care about gaming and are unwilling to stop at convenient answers. Leaders who build real subject-matter depth by engaging directly with the games, players, creators, and clients the industry revolves around, and who carry that depth into every C-suite conversation and team they lead. Strong analytical skills and the ability to link business strategy to performance are table stakes. What sets candidates apart is the combination of intellectual restlessness and authentic investment in the sector that lets them own senior client relationships, win new work, develop the team, and help shape the direction of the Interactive Media and Gaming practice alongside Partners.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $250,000 to $290,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.
• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.